What's the opposite of a "return" flight?
In a round trip, there are two flights. The second one is the return flight. What's the first one called?
Is it the departure flight? That seems strange, because every flight has a departure and an arrival, doesn't it?
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The airline industry uses the term 'Originating Flight' for the first flight in an itinerary.
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What is the opposite of returning flight?
From the passenger perspective, the opposite of the return flight is the outbound flight.What is opposite of flight?
Opposite of the act or state of traveling through the air. standing. stay. staying. waiting.what. (Bo Burnham FULL SHOW HD)
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Answer 2
This could be British but the first thing that came to my mind was "outgoing flight".
Answer 3
Departing flight and returning flight are terms that make sense to me. I note that this is similar to user68196's answer of "originating flight" - the idea is that a return flight is able to refer to a combination of two flights to take you away, and then return you to your original location - so different terms need to be used.
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