Multi-City Flight Booking

Quick answer

A multi-city booking covers three or more airports in one itinerary — for example, New York to Las Vegas, then Los Angeles back to New York. It can price better and manage more cleanly than separate tickets, and an agent can assemble the segments and check each fare's rules in one call.

Common multi-city patterns

• Open jaw: fly into one city, out of another
• Loop trips: several stops in sequence, returning to origin
• Visit-two-cities trips: a side trip between two main legs

Why one itinerary can beat two one-ways

Carriers sometimes price multi-city fares more favorably than separate tickets, and a single itinerary means one set of baggage rules and one reference for changes. That said, pricing varies by route and date, so it always pays to compare the multi-city fare against separately booked legs.

Planning tips

• Decide which stopovers are fixed and which are flexible
• Leave buffer time between self-arranged segments — separate tickets are not protected connections
• Check baggage rules per segment; they follow each fare

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