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Another market commonly traveled under an open-jaw itinerary is the one of local one-way tours. Take, for example, a tour of Florida, where a traveler flying into Jacksonville, Orlando, or Miami rents a car or joins a bus tour at their arrival airport, and returns the car or ends the tour in the town
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The reason for this is that airline reservation systems (and major GDSs) require the segments following on sequentially, so arriving at one city, and then departing from another, will cause the system to return an error message. The ARNK field tells the system that this is intentional, and also
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and fly back home to London from Phuket. Another example would be a traveller flying from New York City to London, travelling around different countries in Europe by taking buses / trains or low-cost carrier flights, then returning from Vilnius. Open-jaw tickets are a flexible and relatively
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Some routing restrictions can apply to open-jaw tickets. The most common restriction is that the open-jaw segments must be shorter than the flown segments. In some circumstances, the destination and return origin must be in the same IATA region, or may be restricted to the same country.
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that do not return to the departure city. In other cases, the traveller wishes to explore between two points and using alternative transport (e.g. buses, trains, ferries or flights on another ticket). For example, a traveller might fly from London to Bangkok, travel around Thailand by
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ticket is an airline return ticket where the destination and/or the origin are not the same in both directions. The name is derived from how it looks when drawn on a map.
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inexpensive way of flying as they are priced as a round-trip ticket, in most cases less expensive than purchasing two one-way flights between the destinations visited.
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A typical destination open-jaw would look like this on an itinerary, with the ARNK on the second segment to show that it is not being flown on that ticket.
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The open gaps between the cities show on the itinerary as ARNK, the same code that shows on an airline or agency's
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Using different airports in the same city is not considered an open-jaw, so a passenger on a London to
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Segment 2: ARNK:   Arrival Unknown or Surface Transportation from IAD to PHL
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would still be a simple round trip as both airports are considered to be serving
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allows for the ticketing system to blank the unused coupons of a ticket.
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Segment 1: 11-NOV: SFO/IAD (San Francisco to Washington-Dulles)
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In some cases, this type of arrangement is needed for boat
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Segment 3: 15-NOV: PHL/SFO (Philadelphia to San Francisco)
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Air route authority between the United States and China
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