I hope the last write-up on stopovers helped to enhance your
flying experience. Apart from savouring great inflight cuisine and
inflight entertainment options, stopovers give you an amazing
opportunity to visit an additional city on way to your destination.
Further enhancing your flying experience, this week's write-up is on open-jaws. As dramatic as it may sound, the term in airline lingo refers to a round-trip ticket in which the traveller does not arrive to the same city of departure he was supposed to take an international flight from and/or does not depart from the city where he first landed. The path-lines between the airports form an open angle, rather than a closed loop, and the angle resembles an open jawline, thus, the name. The traveller will use some other transport to travel between the airports.
Although stopovers let you enjoy a trip to a city that lies on the way of your international flight, open-jaws give you the freedom to wander into cities that were earlier not in the itinerary of your international flight.
Here are a few rules to make the best of the open-jaw scheme:
The basic idea: An open-jaw flight is an international flight that flies from Point A to Point B, then from Point C back to Point A. Points B and C are often neighbouring airports, or at least in the same general area.
Ideal for: Travellers who plan on covering a lot of ground during their trip and who don't want to waste time returning to their original airport. Perhaps you fly into San Francisco and then drive down the coast of California to Los Angeles; this option would allow you to fly home out of LAX instead of making your way back up to San Francisco.
Ideal airlines: Many airlines give amazing options for open-jaws. You just have to be proactive to make the best out of the opportunity. Lufthansa, for once, has very generous stopovers and open-jaws for its flyers. Apart from the lip-smacking inflight Indian cuisine and the inflight entertainment options that include Bollywood hits, Lufthansa boasts of an amazing cabin crew and flight staff members to enhance your flying experience.
Booking: Booking flights - and especially cheap ones at that - isn't difficult at all. The only part that differs about searching for an open-jaw flight from a roundtrip is that multiple cities can but put in for the destination. You can do that? Yes you can. Stick to the big airports to make things simple for yourself. It's often better to pick specific airports instead of putting in a generic city code. For instance I would use LHR, Heathrow airport, instead of LON, all the airports in London. International airlines such as Lufthansa provide a segment-by-segment international flight search making it easier for you to book flights.
So make the best of your vacation. From relishing on delectable Indian cuisine inflight to enjoying Bollywood hits, make a booking that lets you travel another city in the vicinity of your destination. Who knows, you might want to come back to the place again?
Further enhancing your flying experience, this week's write-up is on open-jaws. As dramatic as it may sound, the term in airline lingo refers to a round-trip ticket in which the traveller does not arrive to the same city of departure he was supposed to take an international flight from and/or does not depart from the city where he first landed. The path-lines between the airports form an open angle, rather than a closed loop, and the angle resembles an open jawline, thus, the name. The traveller will use some other transport to travel between the airports.
Although stopovers let you enjoy a trip to a city that lies on the way of your international flight, open-jaws give you the freedom to wander into cities that were earlier not in the itinerary of your international flight.
Here are a few rules to make the best of the open-jaw scheme:
The basic idea: An open-jaw flight is an international flight that flies from Point A to Point B, then from Point C back to Point A. Points B and C are often neighbouring airports, or at least in the same general area.
Ideal for: Travellers who plan on covering a lot of ground during their trip and who don't want to waste time returning to their original airport. Perhaps you fly into San Francisco and then drive down the coast of California to Los Angeles; this option would allow you to fly home out of LAX instead of making your way back up to San Francisco.
Ideal airlines: Many airlines give amazing options for open-jaws. You just have to be proactive to make the best out of the opportunity. Lufthansa, for once, has very generous stopovers and open-jaws for its flyers. Apart from the lip-smacking inflight Indian cuisine and the inflight entertainment options that include Bollywood hits, Lufthansa boasts of an amazing cabin crew and flight staff members to enhance your flying experience.
Booking: Booking flights - and especially cheap ones at that - isn't difficult at all. The only part that differs about searching for an open-jaw flight from a roundtrip is that multiple cities can but put in for the destination. You can do that? Yes you can. Stick to the big airports to make things simple for yourself. It's often better to pick specific airports instead of putting in a generic city code. For instance I would use LHR, Heathrow airport, instead of LON, all the airports in London. International airlines such as Lufthansa provide a segment-by-segment international flight search making it easier for you to book flights.
So make the best of your vacation. From relishing on delectable Indian cuisine inflight to enjoying Bollywood hits, make a booking that lets you travel another city in the vicinity of your destination. Who knows, you might want to come back to the place again?