For round-trip airline tickets under the Warsaw Convention or Montreal No 4 Convention, the 'place of destination' for jurisdictional purposes under Article 28 is the final destination as stated on the ticket — typically the point of origin for a return journey — not an intermediate stopping place, regardless of the length of any break in the journey. The ticket is prima facie evidence of the concluded contract and its terms, including the place of destination, and this can only be rebutted by material contradicting the ticket. MacRobertson Miller does not provide a basis for treating each flight or group of flights as a separate contract with a separate destination.
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