Open-Jaw and Multi-City Flights in 2026: Fly Into One City, Out of Another

Deals & Routes Fly into one city and home from another (open-jaw), or stitch several stops into one multi-city ticket, and skip the backtrack for little more than a… By Bishnu Adhikari · Aug 27, 2026 Read the full story

Most people search flights on the default round-trip tab: out and back from the same airport. But for any trip where you would rather not double back — a loop through several countries, or a route that ends a long way from where it began — the round trip… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

What "open-jaw" actually means

The term is older than the internet. As the reference definition puts it, an open-jaw is "an airline return ticket where the destination and/or the origin are not the same in both directions," and the name is drawn from the shape it makes on a map — an… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

Round trip vs open-jaw vs multi-city vs two one-ways

Four ways to build essentially the same journey, each with a different sweet spot and a different catch. Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

How to book one

Nearly every airline site and search engine has a multi-city (sometimes "multiple destinations") tab beside round trip and one way, giving you a row per flight. For a true multi-city trip, enter each leg in order. For an open-jaw, enter only the flights you… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

The catch that actually matters

Single ticket vs separate tickets This is the difference worth understanding before you book anything with a tight connection. When every leg sits on one ticket (a single open-jaw or multi-city booking), the airlines are responsible for getting you to your… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

The Nepal angle: skip the backtrack to Kathmandu

This is genuinely useful if you are heading to the Himalaya. Most treks are point-to-point or loops, and Nepal shares a busy border with India, so the round-trip habit can cost you a wasted day. A clean example: fly into Kathmandu , trek, then instead of… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

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