Flying "Open Jaw"

The advantage is typically you save the time and money for getting back to your starting location. Make sure that you are using the "multi-city" option when you search on your flights (and not two one ways). Usually open jaw is just a little more than a round trip and not significantly more.

Cindy Make sure you factor in the cost of train travel from Edinburgh back to London. Also, perhaps with travel time back to London, you might need to spend another night in London before you catch your flight to US. Good luck ! Bobbie

The price of each leg is based on supply and demand. A lot of that depends on when you fly as much as where. You will probably find that an open jaw using Edinburgh and London is cheaper than a roundtrip to Edinburgh but more expensive than a roundtrip to London (except around the Olympics). My complaint with open jaw into London and home from Edinburgh is there is plenty to see traveling up both the west side of England/Cornwall/Wales Scotland and the east side of England/Scotland. If you fly open jaw, you have to either zig-zag east to west or skip half of the country. If the air fare difference is significant enough a circular route, up one side and down the other, might be a good option.

On Continental I am getting lower fares for into London out of Edinburgh than RT to London (this is in and out of Newark). How are you searching flights?

I am seeing the same thing. We have never found open jaw to be more expensive if you don't count a ten to twenty dollars difference. Many times we actually find the open jaw to be cheaper than RT to a major airport. Two years ago it was $200/person cheaper flying into Rome and home from Zurich than a RT to Rome. There are lots of variables in fares so check carefully.