Flying to France on an Open Jaw Ticket, Episode 253
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Are you wondering how you can save on your next flights to France? One possibility is booking open-jaw tickets also called multi-city tickets. There are some things you need to be mindful of, and we discuss them in this episode, but overall this seems to be a great idea so you keep more cash and have fun in Paris!
We also talk about taking the Eurostar between Paris and London and discuss David's favorite activities in and around Paris.
Show notes for this episode are here: https://joinusinfrance.com/253
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| 0:00.0 | This is Join us in France episode 253. |
| 0:04.0 | B'o'oel, I'm Annie Sergeant and join us in France is a podcast where you'll hear |
| 0:08.8 | pragmatic advice for your next trip to France. |
| 0:12.1 | On today's episode, I talk with my guest David Steinberg |
| 0:16.0 | about creative ways to save money on your flight to Europe |
| 0:20.0 | and France, of course. |
| 0:22.0 | What he did is he used Miles to book open jaw flights and you know what it sounds like a good plan to me. |
| 0:30.5 | What are open jaw flights? Let's say you live in Boston. You might fly from Boston to |
| 0:36.7 | Paris. Then make your way down to Barcelona by train or by car or even using a European airline like JetBlue or whatever and |
| 0:47.0 | fly home Barcelona to Boston. |
| 0:50.0 | If you draw this on a map it kind of looks like an open jaw which is supposedly why you know this method got its name |
| 0:58.1 | It turns out that this open jaw or multi-city booking is really cost effective so long as you don't |
| 1:07.6 | ask Delta or United or American Airlines to also fly you between Paris and Barcelona. You're buying two one-way tickets, |
| 1:16.8 | Boston to Paris and then Barcelona to Boston to follow our example. This used to be a |
| 1:21.9 | terrible idea but it's not anymore, even if you're |
| 1:25.0 | booking with low-cost airlines apparently. So next Sunday I'll publish an |
| 1:29.6 | episode about low-cost travel within Europe and in that episode we will also talk about |
| 1:36.4 | low-cost airlines between the US and Europe like WOW Air and Norwegian level. That will be with another guest but the two episodes are |
| 1:46.0 | really complimentary to each other so I'll publish them close together. So yeah, multi-city or open jaw, that's the way to go and so let's talk about it. But let me make clear that David does not work in the travel industry. He's a regular traveler like you and me. |
| 2:06.0 | And show notes for this episode are at join us in France.com |
| 2:10.0 | slash 253.53., where you will also find David's excellent guest notes. The The Bonjour David and welcome to join us in France. |
| 2:47.0 | Bonjour, Annie. |
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