Is there such a thing as open returns on airfares anymore. I'm wanting to travel to SE Asia(Phnom Penh) and maybe return from Danang or Bangkok. |Dates and location unknown! No set plans yet obviously, but want to be that way. Thoughts?

Just book a one way ticket

In Viet Nam all Int'l flights are out of Hanoi.

And Ho Chi Minh city which is actually the larger airport. Easy to fly internally to Danang though

I remember reading about a one year open around the world ticket. You could stop as many times as you wanted but always had to be heading west. I remember the cost was not as high as expected.

Star Alliance group has those RTW flights I believe.

If you can afford first class those tickets can be put on ice till you are ready to return.

Last I checked, flying to Ho chi Minh had seat sales of 550$ return for spring. We did the sale this past fall. Easy flights to Bangkok or Danang from there. Not so easy to Cambodia. Flights between Vietnam and Cambodia aren't cheap. Tried from 3 different cities, one way was $170-250 a person. Cambodia to Thailand though is cheap.

What airline to Ho Chi Minh?

Calgary LA TOKYO HCMC was with air canada then air Japan. Great flights.
Internal flights were Vietnam airlines as top ranked. There is also vietjet and one other but they were notorious for being late or cancelled. We experienced that a couple times.

We have Calgary>Denver>Tokyo>Ho Chi Minh City on united

I think that was an option for us too but we were looking at travel times and I think ours was shorter at the time.

We are going next week. Flying into Ho Chi Minh City. You bus to Phnom Penh then Siem Reap if you wanted to go to Angkor Wat. At that point you're pretty close if you want to cross into Thailand.

It's a long bus ride though isn't it? Hence we skipped it. And flights were ridiculous.

Ya it's like 10 hours to siem reap I think. But if you were continuing on to Thailand on a backpacker budget it's doable. We aren't going this time because of time.

Ya we didn't want to waste that time. We wanted a flight or at least overnight train. No such luck. Next time I'll go to Cambodia from Thailand.

We flew into Phnom Penh and returned from HCMC a few weeks ago with China Airlines under one ticket. From Phnom Penh we flew to Siem Reap and then to HCMC with Cambodia Angkor Air, but I agree it wasn't cheap. It sounded like you could get a private driver for $150 per car or so from Phnom Penh, so I might have opted to do that in hindsight.