[QUOTE]Originally posted by BigLar:

Open jaw #1 - you fly from city A to city B. You return from city C to city A. There is an "open jaw" between cities B and C.

Open jaw #2 - you fly from city A to city B. You return from city B to city C. Same thing, but less comon.

However - having said all that - not too sure where MSP-SFO-BOS fits as an open jaw.

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I agree on your open Jaw #1. As an example you leave LAX, fly to JFK, get into a car drive to BOS, and then fly back to LAX. That is the typical open jaw. Now you can leave from LAX, SNA, ONT, or BUR and return to another because they are "co-terminals".

Your open jaw #2 describes MSP-SFO-BOS. Personally I don't think that is an open jaw (although I don't claim to be an open jaw expert in scenario number 2) when outside of co-terminals. If you ask me its two one ways. What if you went SFO-MSP-BOS, that's still scenario number 2. I can't see how that could be an open jaw, that's a one way trip with a stop, or again two one ways.

So are there any Open Jaw experts out there that can explain scenario number 2 or the routing the original poster had. The more I think about it I guess I can see why the res agents has difficulty with it (I'll take any politeness out of the equation for now).

If I leave LAX, go to ORD and return to SFO is that an open jaw? If it is, then same scenario and you "return" to DFW is it? If so, then same scenario and you then go to to BOS is it? I guess in my opinion if isn't a co-terminal then it isn't a round trip, thus not an open jaw. Or said another way you can't have an open jaw on the departure/return city only somewhere in-between.



[This message has been edited by 1K_From_SNA (edited Nov 14, 2003).]