Hi everyone.
A parent of mine is coming to visit me in Canada (ON) by later September 2022.
My parent already has an approved Canadian ETA (acquired by USA visa proxy program) and we are only pending buying the tickets.
For the dates that my parent can come there are only 2 flight options: Very expensive two way ticket (for coming and returning) OR separate tickets. The price difference is almost CAN$1000. We want to avoid any unnecessary cheap flights with lots of stops, so we're focused on Air Canada only.
I tried to find something about this and couldn't find anything specific, so I hope someone here has more experience about the following:
We are planning on buying the two tickets separate, both are bought directly with Air Canada.
However, the return ticket will stop at a specific city different than the one my parent departed from, but still in the same country of origin.
My parent will stay in that city with other family members for a week and later fly to the origin city on a totally separate flight which is much cheaper.
My parent will be staying in Canada for 14 days (2 weeks).
For all intents and purposes my parent has a return ticket, but I am not sure if the Canadian border agent - or Air Canada itself - will require the return ticket to be part of the first ticket, instead of separate like we are planning.
In short, this is what we're planning to do:
Does anyone know if this is alright? Will the Canadian border or Air Canada check in require the return ticket to be bought together with the first one?
A parent of mine is coming to visit me in Canada (ON) by later September 2022.
My parent already has an approved Canadian ETA (acquired by USA visa proxy program) and we are only pending buying the tickets.
For the dates that my parent can come there are only 2 flight options: Very expensive two way ticket (for coming and returning) OR separate tickets. The price difference is almost CAN$1000. We want to avoid any unnecessary cheap flights with lots of stops, so we're focused on Air Canada only.
I tried to find something about this and couldn't find anything specific, so I hope someone here has more experience about the following:
We are planning on buying the two tickets separate, both are bought directly with Air Canada.
However, the return ticket will stop at a specific city different than the one my parent departed from, but still in the same country of origin.
My parent will stay in that city with other family members for a week and later fly to the origin city on a totally separate flight which is much cheaper.
My parent will be staying in Canada for 14 days (2 weeks).
For all intents and purposes my parent has a return ticket, but I am not sure if the Canadian border agent - or Air Canada itself - will require the return ticket to be part of the first ticket, instead of separate like we are planning.
In short, this is what we're planning to do:
- Domestic flight inside of country of origin from city A to city B (this is a third party flight, but it's part of the Air Canada flight/ticket)
- International flight from city B from country of origin to Canada
- Stay 14 days
- International return flight from Canada to city B in country of origin (this is a separate ticket, but also bought from Air Canada)
- Stay in city B with relatives for a week
- Domestic flight from city B to city A (completely separate ticket bought from a domestic airline that is not Air Canada)
Does anyone know if this is alright? Will the Canadian border or Air Canada check in require the return ticket to be bought together with the first one?
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