Booking for passengers with differing return dates

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Hi all, Trust that someone on will answer my query. I have to make a booking for family later this year. We want to have four adults and two kids all leaving on the same flight to the same destination, however on the return, one adult will have their own return date, the remaining three adults and kids will have another return date through a connection, and to complicate it further, the two adults and two kids will have a separate return date from the connection (ie they will have a family stopover at the connection). The routing (ie connection point) will be the same for everyone however.

Is it possible to do the above as a single booking? or is it best to do the above as three separate bookings then contact the airline to have them linked together for the common flights?

 

[markis10]

Three separate bookings then put a request to link in.