What is the term for a round trip where the return journey starts from a different city than the original destination?

• A. Open-jaw trip
• B. Open-skies policy
• C. Overbook
• D. Paper ticket

Answer: (A)

Open-jaw trips describe itineraries where the return leg starts from a different city than the outbound destination. In other words, you fly into one city, but you depart for home from a different city on the way back. This lets you visit two or more places without backtracking to the exact same start point. For example, you might fly from New York to Tokyo, then return from Osaka back to New York. The outward end is Tokyo, while the return departure is from Osaka, so the cities don’t match.

The other options aren’t about this kind of routing. Open-skies policy refers to air service agreements, overbook is about selling more seats than available, and a paper ticket is just an old ticket format.