open ended flights

Time to lock down my tickets and I'd like to get an open-ended ticket. While I can find round trip flights for $1,000usd from NY to Delhi, there's no information on open-ended tickets so I can leave as I like or like within reason

Anybody know any tricks in getting a good open-ended deal?

I was interested in an open ended ticket too, but I realized that they are quite expensive.
I have now booked a one way flight. Two of those are somewhat like an open ended return ticket, and I pay probably half the amount..

That's not a bad idea Dani, is there a problem getting a decent priced return flight in terms of advance notice?

In the meantime I've found a nonstop rountrip ticket from Continental for $891 and the best one way I've found so far is $725, they don't make it easy to be flexible do they?

EDIT I went directly to Continental and the round trip ticket was only $828, the penalty for changing the return flight is only $200 which makes it an open end ticked for $1028, not a bad deal and they have daily nonstop flights.

PS: Continental wants $1014 for a one-way, tell me how that makes sense

well I guess that depends on how far in advance you know when you want to fly back and how flexible your schedule will be..

I found out that when you ask the airline directly for a one way ticket, they offer you a horribly overpriced fare. But if you try one of those budget online broker you'll often pay only a bit more than half the price of a return ticket.
(Alitalia or Swiss, not sure anymore which one it was, offered me a one way fare which was about 3 times the amount of a return ticket !!!)

The problem with openended tickets is, if you want it to be valid for longer than half a year, the price sky rockets. So if I take special offer tickets with non rebookable reservations, it is quite a bit cheaper even if I have to pay the 'one way penalty'.

One way tickets. Some airlines seem to do them, others don't. Well, they do, but try their damndest to put you off.

My one-way BA ticket to Chennai would have cost three times the amount if it wasn't really a return. Might use the other half, might not. Might pay to change the date to another random date six months ahead; going to have to visit UK again sometime, I suppose...