Originally Posted by
Pcsl
Thanks for your answer. I know it's usually riskier. However when I look at the fare details at ITA Matrix it seems that actually the fare at the end is same as a roundtrip fare (it says "round trip fare"). Maybe someone can check the PDF file and tell me if I'm wrong.
Originally Posted by
poorman99
I think you will be fine. This is a round trip fare. You can just check-in your back to Osaka. It just happens that the cheaper fare you found (fare class "V") was not found when you don't specify the stop. You're lucky!
Like they said. The fact that you're seeing the price on ITA as two fares, and that it says "round trip" is the indication that regardless of what you started with this is a round trip fare. I do this all the time to force a specific routing. On ITA "multi-city" doesn't mean anything more than "I want to do something other than A-B-A (round trip) or A-B (one way).
When I recently wanted to fly ORD-IST-SIN and then SIN-anywhere-ORD, the only way I could force the layover in IST was to do a multi-city rather than asking for ORD-SIN, SIN-ORD.