Open return ticket
In Open Return tickets is flights where the flight back is left open and not registered fixed. Open return tickets can be booked with scheduled airlines and specialized travel agencies. With such a ticket, however, for technical reasons a fictitious return flight date can be used as a temporary placeholder, which can be ignored in this case as no flight number is given.
providers
Tickets of this type can be booked with scheduled airlines and specialized travel agencies. The outward and return flights are paid for at the time the ticket is purchased, with the guarantee that the traveler will be transported back to his home country on the terms agreed when purchasing the ticket. This means that the same fare class must be free on the return flight.
The date of the return flight must be agreed with the ticket issuer (usually a travel agency , tour operator or the airlines). As a rule, the date of an open return ticket can be changed; some airlines also allow the return flight location to be changed in the same country as the outbound flight.
validity
The validity of the open return tickets depends on the contracts of the providers of these tickets and the airlines themselves. There are currently tickets with a validity of 3 to 20 months. In addition, the airlines like to limit these tickets to a certain age. The main target group are 18 to 35 year olds.
Demarcation
As soon as a return flight date with flight number and flight times is shown in the personal flight plan or on the confirmation / invoice, it is a firmly booked return flight and not an open return. This ticket must be rebooked before the firmly booked return flight, as the return ticket will expire in this case. Depending on the booked fare may in rebooking come at a cost.