Hi everyone,

It's been a long time since I've posted but I wanted to ask if anyone can see a potential problem with this itinerary:

I am a UK citizen and plan to spend about 5 weeks on vacation in the US this summer. I have a valid ESTA. My itinerary would be an open jaw ticket LHR-SJC then SAN-LHR. I would buy a separate one way flight on a different airline for SJC-SAN, departing about halfway through my stay.

Does anyone see any problems with this? E.g. when I go to SJC to get my one way flight to SAN, might this be a problem with immigration? I'm guessing that as long as I have my SAN-LHR flight printed out it'll be fine, but since I've never done a trip like this before I wanted to ask the experienced people around here what they thought...

Thank you.

Nope. No foreseeable issues. You are able to fly intra-USA with no restriction (of course, have your passport on you for ID) - and there's no immigration intra-USA. You will just be dealing with the airline check-in counter if you have a bag to check, and then TSA (airport security) before you enter the departures area. Both will ask for your ID (passport, in your case)

Keep a copy of your return itinerary with you for immigration for when you land at SJC.

Enjoy your trip.

You should be good, just use your passport as your ID for the intra-USA flights.

Enjoy San Diego, we have lots to do here

Thank you both for the quick replies. That's great to know!
Madone59: any recommendations for August?

Point you browser to California forum, several threads on San Diego, to some of which I've contributed

+1 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/california-450/