The open jaw search in Bonussøk: fly home from a different city than you left from
Most searches assume you fly out and back from the same city. That is not how people always travel. If you are heading through Italy, you might want to fly into Rome and home from Milan. The open jaw search is built for exactly that kind of trip.
What an open jaw is
An open jaw is a trip where you fly out to one city and home from another. You land where the trip begins and fly home where it ends, instead of forcing everything into a normal return from and to the same place.
How to use the search
In the planner you set up the outbound and the return leg separately. You can add several airports to depart from and several destinations to fly to, so the search finds the combination that actually has seats free. You pick a fixed date or a flexible date for each leg. It is a multi-origin search: instead of one route, it looks across several start and end points at the same time.
One practical thing to know about the booking itself: SAS does not always let you set up an open jaw return on a single booking online. In that case you usually book the two directions as separate trips, or call SAS if you want everything on one booking. The search helps you find the seats; the booking follows SAS’s rules.
Two reasons to use it
The obvious one is round trips. If you want to see several cities and move from A to B, an open jaw fits perfectly.
The less obvious one is availability. Sometimes there is no award seat home from the city you arrived in, but there is one from a neighbouring city. An open jaw lets you take that instead of getting stuck. It is a quiet trick for rescuing a trip that otherwise would not work out. There is more on moves like this in the guide on mixed cabin and open jaw.
Who it is for
The open jaw search is for the slightly more experienced user who wants flexible routings, and for anyone planning a round trip. If you just want a return to one city, the standard search does the job. But the moment the trip gets more involved, this is the tool that finds the solution. Once you have the pieces, you can put them together in the trip planner.
Common questions
Can I book an open jaw return on one booking? Not always online with SAS. Often you book the two directions separately, or call SAS to get everything on the same booking. The search finds the seats either way.
What does multi-origin mean? That you can enter several airports to depart from, not just one. The search looks across all of them to find seats.
When is an open jaw worth it? On round trips, and when there is no return from your arrival city but there is one from a city nearby.
Try the open jaw search and build a trip that fits your route.