Yep. Hotels too.
this is the way to go, for domestic stuff in the US, at least. For international trips, booking a one-way generally will put you into a super expensive fare bucket but most domestic routings do not require round trip ticketing.
the downside to buying two one-ways is that if you do need to make a change, if you have a single ticket you only pay a single change fee and you can change both the outbound and the return. But since the major US airlines are all still waiving change fees right now, itās almost always better to get two one-ways.
Iāve been tracking flights to Seattle from Boston (which are too damn high right now). Itās $150 cheaper to book 2 one ways than to do a round trip on the same flights, wtf. Checked after I saw posts ITT.
Also they are both less than half full so Iām surprised itās so damn expensive. Legit cheaper to move my vacation to Paris 
I just booked two one-ways to Costa Rica and got great deals on both. The first flight was actually a great deal using miles, 10k per person. The way back will be on southwest which was way cheaper than AA or United.
I donāt even think this is really true, or doesnāt seem to be for a lot of the international flights I book
I think I should promise myself that any time I say to myself āI could go to fucking PARIS instead of fucking ______________,ā I should just automatically buy the Paris ticket.
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Can confirm - been several times, but I havenāt been back since the major hurricane that went through 4-5 years back (maybe longer?). I heard it badly affected the snorkeling, but maybe it came back. Had a blast there every time.
Was on St. Johnās in January and it was beautiful. 2/3? Of the island being a national park goes a long way. Snorkeling was great too although I donāt have a frame of reference as it was my first time. I was looking at real estate by the time we left though.
The storms would be a worry this time of year tbh. Iirc Turks is in that zone where they donāt get hit nearly as often.
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I would go straight to the airline. You should have a reasonable degree of rights with them even though it was booked third party.
Try also downloading the airlineās app or making a frequent flier account on their website and linking the itinerary. It could give you some rebooking tools or options.
Iām pretty sure this is how it would work on Delta (which I use all the time) but worth a shot with BA.
Thank you to the guys above for the Lyon / surrounding areas suggestions. Iām saving them in my travel notes, they wonāt go to waste. Weāre not going to head to Lyon this year, we decided just to spend the full trip in Switzerland because there was so much we wanted to do, and figured we may never be in that country again. Weāll go to Lyon next year, or the year after, with the kid. Sheās learning French and my wife is a francophile, so thereās likely more than one France trip in our future.
Kid was devastated weāre going somewhere without her. Sheās going to a sleep away summer camp! Figured it was a win-win. She didnāt see it that way.
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Thanks. From what Orbitz told me, although the flight is on BA, Virgin Atlantic is actually the authorized carrier. Or something. And on their system Virgin Atlantic was offering zero options to reschedule. So they are supposedly contacting Virgin Atlantic via other means. If they donāt come back with something Iāll contact VA myself. Iām really hoping that worst-case scenario is that flight just gets removed from my itinerary and Iāll get myself to London. Iāve come to terms that this issue may cost me considerable money, but if the alternative is canceling my familyās entire two-week vacation (leaving in 9 days!), thatās what Iāll do.
EDIT: I was just reading the EU passengerās bill of rights and it definitely sounds like theyāre not allowed to just fuck me over, regardless of what Orbitz says. I booked a backup Geneva-London flight that is cancelable within 48 hours.
Question about baggage: if I end up taking the off-itinerary flight from Geneva to London and then flying my originally scheduled London-LAX flight, will I have to collect my bags in London and check them onto my new flight, or is there a way to have that done automatically?
Iām looking now, generally the cheapest fares to (e.g.) europe require a saturday stayover, etc. But right now it looks like you can get into e.g. the K bucket on Delta on a one-way to CDG, which is a lot better than what Iām used to, but I can still get a V ticket with a one-week stay, which basically results in the round trip ticket being essentially the same as the one-way. Obviously not scientific, I just picked a route and a random tuesday a few months out. Note for business class, the saturday stayover rule isnāt in effect, the same fare bucket (I) is available for either itenerary.
One way:
round trip:
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I always wonder who is paying cash for international business class / first class. Often $20k+ for two people!
Central america is mostly treated as a domestic destination for fare rules etc.
Also for miles tickets, the fare rules are generally a lot different. Itās almost always advantageous to book award trips as two one-ways.
people flying on business using other peopleās money
Everything is screwy right now.
For many years, the rule of āInternational = Must Book Round Trip, Domestic = One Way is OKā was ironclad. But recently Iāve seen major one-way penalties on flights even as boring as ATL - JAX, where a round trip was under $400, but a one-way was $400 for each leg of the flight booked separately.
I tried to talk my wife into paying for the business class for our trip to Portugal, it was going to be about $C 5,000 per person I think. She wouldnāt go for it.
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ha my wife now basically doesnāt want to fly unless itās business class
been on the opposite side of that question
Once you do it, absolutely impossible to fly coach again. That said, Iām just not going before paying cash.
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For flights under 6 hours Iāve found the economy plus seats to be tolerable middle ground. I donāt need the first class āluxuryā features (that are obviously still less than you could get for 20-30 bucks including booze on the ground), but Iām tall enough that modern economy seats are basically torture devices that force me to constantly choose between having circulation below the knee or being in a stress position. Thatās not workable.
Iāve basically just accepted that Iām not taking flights without guaranteed leg room and the new price of an economy ticket is whatever the extra leg room seats are going for.