§ Travel

Multi-city ticket

also called multi-city · multi-stop

A single booking chaining several different flights and cities rather than a simple there-and-back.

Round-the-world ticketPositioning flightMulti-city ticket
Solid lines are terms people actually mix up with Multi-city ticket. The rest sit in the same subject, tickets with more than one stop. Round-the-world ticket · Positioning flight

Right, in plain English

A multi-city ticket is a single booking that strings together several different flights and cities, rather than a simple out-and-back. It suits a trip where you fly into one place, out of another, and hit points in between. Keeping it all on one ticket can be cheaper than separate bookings and protects your connections, since the airline sees the whole journey as one record.

You are looping through several countries and start pricing each leg as its own ticket. Booked instead as one multi-city ticket, the same route can come out cheaper, and if one flight is delayed the airline is on the hook to sort the next leg, because they are all on a single record.

Why it matters

It can be cheaper and simpler than separate tickets for a multi-country loop, and protects connections on one record.

Not to be confused with

The difference is the whole point, so here is each one in a line.

Tickets with more than one stop · 3 terms

These are ways to build a trip that is not a simple there-and-back.
A multi-city ticket chains several flights on one booking, an open-jaw flies you into one city and home from another, and a round-the-world ticket circles the globe on one fare.
A positioning flight is an extra hop taken to reach the airport where a cheaper fare or award starts, and an ex-EU or ex-hub fare is the bargain that appears when a trip begins in a particular country.

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