TL 120 Terms & Definitions

Origin The first or starting city on a journey. This does not mean your hometown. You may drive to Vancouver and fly home. Your origin would be Vancouver.
Destination Often mistaken for point of turnaround. The final or ending point on a journey. On a trip Toronto/Vancouver/Toronto, Toronto is your origin and Toronto is also your destination.

Point of Turnaround The furthest point from the origin. Often called destination. On the last example, Toronto is both the origin and the destination while Vancouver is the point of turnaround.
It is widely accepted in the industry as the passengers destination. Toronto Vancouver

Itinerary Description of a passengers journey. Often in printed form.

Segment - A portion of an air itinerary from boarding to deplaning point (includes connections). There are both outbound (origin to POT) and inbound segments (POT to destination) Segment Toronto Vancouver

Connecting in

Calgary

Leg One single flight portion of an itinerary from board point to deplaning point. Different from segment as it does NOT include connections. Segment
Toronto Vancouver

Connecting in

Calgary
Leg Leg

Stopover Voluntary interruption between origin and destination. Indicated by an O on an airline ticket. Stopovers are 4 hours or longer.
Toronto to Calgary Calgary to Vancouver Vancouver to Toronto Dec 01 Dec 03 Dec 05

Toronto

Calgary O

Vancouver O

Connection Involuntary interruption between origin and destination. Indicated by an X on an airline ticket. Connections are less than 4 hours. Toronto to Calgary Calgary to Vancouver Vancouver to Toronto Dec 01 Dec 01 Dec 05

Toronto

Calgary X

Vancouver O

Nonstop Flight No stops enroute. A leg of a connection can be a nonstop flight. Segment Toronto Vancouver

Connecting in

Calgary Nonstop Flight Leg

Nonstop Flight Leg

Direct Flight Single aircraft flight via one or more transit points (stops). Plane touches down enroute but the pax does NOT get off the plane. Used for picking up or dropping off other pax.

Toronto
Winnipeg

Calgary

Plane lands in Winnipeg but pax does not get off the plane pax continues on to Calgary

Connecting Flight Flight that requires a change of aircraft enroute. That change may not be more than 4 hours. Connecting Flight

Toronto

Connecting in

Vancouver

Calgary Connecting Point where change of aircraft occurs

2 types of connections Online Change of aircraft but using same airline to same airline
Toronto
Connecting in

Vancouver

Calgary

Flying with Air Canada

Flying with Air Canada

Offline (or interline) Change of aircraft AND airline

Toronto

Connecting in

Vancouver

Calgary

Flying with Air Canada

Flying with West Jet

One Way Journey Origin to destination in continuous outward direction with no return

Toronto

Vancouver

Round Trip Origin to POT and back to origin.

Toronto Vancouver

3 types of Round Trip

Return Trip Circle Trip Open Jaw Trip

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

Calgary

Toronto Calgary

Vancouver

Using AC in both directions

Circle Trip Round trip made with different routing OR different airline in either direction Calgary Toronto Vancouver
*Using AC in both directions

Edmonton
Calgary
*Using AC outbound

Toronto Calgary

Vancouver
*Using WestJet inbound

Open Jaw Round trip which has a segment in which air is not used (surface segment such as car, bus, train)
2 types of Open Jaw Single and Double

2 types of Single Open Jaw possible at 2 locations

Single Open Jaw at POT Surface sector is at the Point of Turnaround San Francisco
Flight

Toronto
Flight

Drive from San Fran to Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Single Open Jaw at Origin Surface segment is at the point of origin

Toronto
Flying out of Toronto but back into Hamilton

Vancouver

Hamilton

Double Open Jaw Both the point of origin and turnaround involve surface segment

Toronto

Calgary

Hamilton

Vancouver