Flying to and from our cruise

[Icc5]

Need some expert or experienced help with setting up our flights for our back to back cruises. Hoping to fly out of San Francisco SFO to Sydney,Australia then spend 3 days there before a 9 day cruise which returns back to Sydney and then on the same Princess ship cruise 10 days to Auckland,New Zealand. We then have 3 days booked in Auckland before flying home. The problem I'm having is planning the flight as we come home from a different airport.
SFO to Sydney and trying to keep it as a round trip or just do as 2 seperate trips the 2nd being Auckland to SFO. Is it best to do what is called Open-Jaw since the return is from a different airport. Am I just making it too hard and should just look at it as two seperate trips? Don't know if it would be the same cost for 2 one way trips compared to a round trip?

 

[Passepartout]

You can do this search easily on Kayak or Expedia as either open-jaw or as two one-way flights. Then you'll know which costs less.

 

[sun starved Gayle]

Googleflights is also a very good tool to use for “open jaw” flights.

 

[b2bailey]

I haven't found there to be any savings in buying a RT ticket.

 

[moonstone]

I agree with b2bailey. With the 7 flights I had to take home from down south last winter I always found it cheaper to book 2 one way flights instead of a return. I also found by doing one way flights I could even book each flight with a different airline to get better flight times since I really only needed to be at home for 1 day each time and the discount airlines I booked with didn't fly every day on the route I needed.


~Diane

 

[tschwa2]

It is also called a multi city search vs round trip or one way. Most sites like orbitz or bookings.com will look at both and open jaw and two one ways on the same carrier or multiple carriers to determine the lowest cost options.

 

[Talent312]

Once when flying to Italy, we we started in Rome and ended in Venice. We compared open-jaw to O/W flights, but then found it actually cheaper to book a O/W flight from Venice back to to Rome for a R/T.

IOW, also check out a R/T to Sydney with a separate O/W flight from Auckland back to Sydney.