Open jaw

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Open jaw flight: outward flight Paris – Moscow,
return flight St. Petersburg – Paris (or vice versa, from St. Petersburg to Paris)

An open jaw (also Open Jaw Flight abbreviated OJ ) is a variant of a flight in which the passenger does not fly back from the airport where he arrived. The destination of the outbound flight is therefore not identical to the start of the return flight. Open-jaw flights are usually booked when the traveler in the destination country covers a distance with another means of transport .

An open jaw flight is also given if the starting point of the trip is not identical to the end point, for example an outward flight from Paris to Moscow and a return flight from Moscow to Lyon. However, a condition for an open jaw flight is that the two different destination points - for example St. Petersburg and Moscow or Paris and Lyon - are in one and the same destination area.

If both the departure and destination airports are different for the outward and return flight, one sometimes speaks of a double fork flight.

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