Multi-city travel: how to visit several cities in one trip

Want to visit Rome, then Barcelona, then fly back from Madrid? Or fly Skopje — Istanbul — Dubai — Skopje? These are multi-city and open-jaw routes — and they’re our everyday work.

What is multi-city, and what is open-jaw

A multi-city trip is when you visit several cities in one journey — for example, Skopje → Vienna (3 days) → Barcelona (4 days) → Skopje. Each segment is a separate flight, but the whole route is booked as one unit.

An open-jaw trip is when you return from a different city than the one you arrived in — for example, Skopje → London, but returning Paris → Skopje. Between London and Paris you travel on your own (by train, car, or a low-cost flight).

Why multi-city bookings are complex

Online platforms are designed for simple round trips. When you try to put together a multi-city route, you often get illogical prices or technical errors. The reason: the system doesn’t know how to combine different airlines, fares, and rules to optimize your route.

How the agent builds a multi-city route

With access to Amadeus GDS, the agent sees all the options at once — all the airlines, all the routes, all the fares. They can combine different carriers to get the most efficient and most favourable route. This is especially useful when:

• You want to visit three or more cities
• You’re combining continental and intercontinental flights
• You need a stopover on the way to your final destination

Avionet specializes in complex routes. That’s our everyday work — and this is exactly where you see the difference between an online tool and a professional agent.

Key points

• Multi-city travel lets you visit several cities in one booking.
• An open-jaw route means you arrive in one city and return from another.
• Online platforms can rarely optimize complex routes the way a professional agent can.
• With access to Amadeus GDS, the agent combines different airlines for the best price and time.