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TL 120 Terms &Definitions

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Origin The first or starting city on a journey.This does not mean your hometown. You may

drive to Vancouver and fly home. Your originwould be Vancouver.

Destination Often mistaken for point ofturnaround. The final or ending point on a

journey. On a trip Toronto/Vancouver/Toronto,Toronto is your origin and Toronto is also yourdestination.

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Point of Turnaround The furthest pointfrom the origin. Often called destination.

On the last example, Toronto is both theorigin and the destination while Vancouver isthe point of turnaround.

It is widely accepted in the industry as thepassengers destination.

Toronto Vancouver

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ItineraryDescription of a passengersjourney. Often in printed form.

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Segment - A portion of an air itinerary fromboarding to deplaning point (includes

connections). There are both outbound(origin to POT) and inbound segments(POT to destination)

Toronto Vancouver

Calgary

Connectingin

Segment

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Leg One single flight portion of anitinerary from board point to deplaning

point. Different from segment as it doesNOT include connections.

Calgary

Connectingin

Toronto Vancouver

Segment

LegLeg

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Stopover Voluntary interruption betweenorigin and destination. Indicated by an O on

an airline ticket. Stopovers are 4 hours orlonger.

Toronto to Calgary Dec 01

Calgary to Vancouver Dec 03

Vancouver to Toronto Dec 05

Toronto

Calgary

VancouverO

O

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Connection Involuntary interruptionbetween origin and destination. Indicated by

an X on an airline ticket. Connections areless than 4 hours.

Toronto to Calgary Dec 01

Calgary to Vancouver Dec 01

Vancouver to Toronto Dec 05

Toronto

Calgary

VancouverX

O

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NonstopFlight No stops enroute. A legof a connection can be a nonstop flight.

Calgary

Connectingin

Toronto Vancouver

Segment

Nonstop

Flight Leg

NonstopFlight Leg

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DirectFlight Single aircraft flight via one ormore transit points (stops). Plane touches

down enroute but the pax does NOT get off theplane. Used for picking up or dropping off otherpax.

Toronto

Winnipeg

Calgary

Plane lands in Winnipeg butpax does not get off the plane

pax continues on to Calgary

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Connecting Flight Flight that requires achange of aircraft enroute. That change may

not be more than 4 hours.

Calgary

Connectingin

Toronto Vancouver

ConnectingFlight

Connecting Point

where change of aircraft occurs

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2 types of connections

Online Change of aircraft but using same

airline to same airline

Calgary

Connecting

in

Toronto Vancouver

Flying withAir Canada

Flying withAir Canada

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Offline (or interline) Change of aircraft ANDairline

Calgary

Connectingin

Toronto Vancouver

Flying withAir Canada

Flying withWest Jet

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One Way Journey Origin to destination incontinuous outward direction with no return

Toronto Vancouver

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Round Trip Origin to POT and back toorigin.

Toronto Vancouver

3 types of Round Trip

Return Trip

Circle Trip

Open Jaw Trip

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Return Trip Round trip made with samerouting and airline in both directions.

Toronto

Calgary

Vancouver

Calgary

Using AC in both directions

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Circle Trip Round trip made with differentrouting OR different airline in either direction

Toronto

Calgary

Vancouver

Edmonton

Toronto

Calgary

Vancouver

Calgary

*Using AC in both directions

*Using AC outbound

*Using WestJet inbound

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Open Jaw Round trip which has a segmentin which air is not used (surface segment

such as car, bus, train)

2 types of Open Jaw Single and Double

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2 types of Single Open Jaw possible at 2locations

Single Open Jaw at POT Surface sectoris at the Point of Turnaround

Toronto

San Francisco

Los Angeles

Drive from San Franto Los Angeles

Flight

Flight

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Single Open Jaw at Origin Surfacesegment is at the point of origin

Toronto

Vancouver

Hamilton

Flying out ofToronto but backinto Hamilton

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Double Open Jaw Both the point of originand turnaround involve surface segment

Toronto Calgary

VancouverHamilton

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