Originally Posted by
RealHJ
* is flying out from one airport and coming back to another considered open jaw?
Yes
Originally Posted by
RealHJ
** so if doing that, can't have an actual open jaw for the destination?
You already have one; DL does not allow two on a single award calculation.
Originally Posted by
RealHJ
* any rules on that (nothing in the public fare rules)? I presume the return airport has to be in the same "zone" (e.g. North America, N Asia, SE Asia, etc..) as the departure airport, but other than that, anything else? (I think the distance between origin and return airports had to be less than the shortest flight booked in the itineary, or something like that.. ?).
In theory, that might be case.
In practice, Delta.com will price things using half of two very different awards on a frequent basis, even though it would never qualify for valid open jaw pricing on a revenue ticket.
Example a:
Africa-CDG-Europe one-way
will often price as 45K Delta miles even when the time in CDG is just a connection; 30K (half the Africa-CDG award) + 15K (half the CDG-Europe award) = 45K price displayed on Delta.com
Example b:
Central America-USA-Europe one-way
will often price as half of Central America-->USA award + half of USA-->Europe award.
Conclusion: Delta.com does not (and has not recently) applied normal open jaw rules to award tickets