Hello! I am trying to plan a trip to Europe. The plan is to fly into Athens at the beginning of June, travel throughout the month, and end in London at the end of June. I am trying to figure out how to do my flights and I need some advice. Should I get round trip tickets to Athens and just plan to get from London to Athens at the end of my trip and fly home from there? Or, should I get a one way ticket to Athens and then a one way ticket back from London?
(I will be coming from Chicago)
Thanks for the help!
Need advice on booking flights to and from Europe
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Definitely return home from London. It's called an open jaw ticket and can be booked on many agency or airline websites.
Search for open-jaw tickets, meaning you fly to one airport and depart from a different airport. This will be your best scenario and will most likely be cheaper than two one-way tickets.
Flying RT to Athens and adding a RT ticket between London and Athens: this is the least desirable scenario because it will most likely be more expensive and take more of your vacation time in transport. You never know when you might find a deal, so I'd start searching for both open-jaw and 2 one-way tickets. However, flights from US to Europe have been creeping up so if you can find an open-jaw flight that fits in your budget, take it.
You do NOT want two one-way tickets. The cost would be huge. You want a open haws (multi-destination it is called) ticket - into Athens and out of London - which should be 1/2 of each of the RT costs - and save you trekking back to Athens.
Hi J,
Look for fares at www.kayak.com.
You want the "multi-city option.
>>Should I get round trip tickets to Athens and just plan to get from London to Athens at the end of my trip and fly home from there? Or, should I get a one way ticket to Athens and then a one way ticket back from London?<<
Neither. As the others say -- you want open jaw/multi-city.
Glad that multi city ticketing was mentioned, I have never seen "open jaw" as an option on the internet and although some people know the definition the option, multi city, is the phrase that is shown on web sites. And yes, that is what the poster should look at.
I think "open jaw" is old travel industry jargon. I've never seen it used on booking sites either and should have said, as some of you have said since, "multi-city". Anyway we got there, didn't we.
Thanks so much, everyone!