I am not sure which logic airlines use to calculate ticket prices but you often get a ridiculously cheaper ticket if you add more flights! That’s right! I will show you a few real examples where you can save somewhere from $390 up to $1.709 by adding more flights to your ticket 
This works for any airline. I will just use Emirates as an example. Coincidence or not but Emirates just introduced a fee for advance special seat selection like the exit row seat with extra legroom ($55 – $135). No worries, the following tips can help you to keep the ticket price within your budget 
A return ticket is cheaper than a one way?
Imagine you are in Brussels and and just need a one way ticket to Dubai. Booking a one way ticket BRU – DXB would make sense right?
Well … not always.
Check out this example: the return flight is a lot cheaper than the one way! So you can visit Brussels again
Saving $1.709 by adding 1 flight?
Now imagine that you also had a trip from Dubai to Tokyo in mind. Probably you want to experience a capsule hotel, the robot restaurant, a cat cafe or any of the other cool things in Japan.
The most logical thing to do would be to book a return flight from Dubai to Tokyo right?
But let’s see what happens if you get more creative! We were looking into a flight from Brussels to Dubai (see above) anyway so let’s try to combine them. Try to add the DXB – TYO – DXB flight after the BRU – DXB flight. You can do that quite easily on Google Flights by clicking on the multi city tab Hmm too bad that the cost of that ticket seems to be a bit high … but wait
Remember that sometimes the return is cheaper than one way, so let’s try adding our last flight back to Brussels here as well. 
Check this out, we scored an insane discount! The price drops from $2.633 to $924 that’s a discount of $1.709 because we added! a flight:-D
Always try to combine trips before you book
I guess the examples above say it all. Combining multiple trips in one tickets might be much cheaper! Imagine if I had booked a one way Brussels – Dubai for $891 and then a second return ticket Dubai – Tokyo for $940, that’s a whopping $1.831! If you book everything in one multi city ticket it would just cost $924, you just saved almost $1000!! Or look at it this way: for less than $100 extra we turned a one way ticket in to a 4 flights ticket!
- $891 – BRU – DXB
- $501 – BRU – DXB – BRU
- $940 – DXB – TYO – DXB
- $2633 – BRU – DXB – TYO – DXB
- $924 – BRU – DXB – TYO – DXB – BRU
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Love this! Kindaa follows the around the world ticket principle, right? Now, if only we have that much leave days from work.
@Turknoys thanks
Indeed it’s not exact science but if you add more flights, chances are high the price goes down :-p
Just be careful because if you miss one flight (not a delayed connection flight, but you arriving late in the airport) all the other flights on that ticket will be canceled if the airline does not rebook you.
I also work full time but I just spread out the flights of a multi city itineraries over months as those are often cheaper than if you would do it with only a few days between the stops. And then I nest the ticket with other multi city itineraries on other airlines so I can do long weekends etc
For example first I booked tickets: CMB – KUL – DXB – KUL – CMB with like a gap of a few months. then I booked a positioning ticket DXB-CMB-DXB to match beginning and the end. Then I booked KUL – TPE – KUL to complete the first trip and KUL – LPQ (laos) – KUL for my second trip.