Plus, as we wrote in Maximizing the Value of Your Award
Ticket with Stopovers and Open Jaws, you can get a free one way on American, albeit only out of one of American's hub cities (Dallas Fort Worth, Miami, Chicago, New York JFK, Los Angeles LAX).
We mentioned this back in 2011, in Maximizing the Value of Your Award
Ticket with Stopovers and Open Jaws.
Not exact matches
The Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan program allows you to book one - way
tickets with a free
stopover, which is a unique benefit.
You just want to make sure that this is still in line
with the rules of the award
ticket (ie roudtrip /
stopover rules are not being violated when combining this leg
with any other legs of the journey).
UA Also has an issue
with ticketing a double open jaw
with a
stopover at your origin (A Fancy name for a free one way at the end of, or start of your trip).
What you can do is book your
ticket as a
ticket to Asia,
with a single
stopover in a European city.
Remember, any award
ticket comes
with 1
stopover, so you can generate some more «
stopovers» by buying internal Asia flights / internal Europe flights.
Amol has provided some great examples of combining multiple one - way awards
with stopovers to effectively create round - trip
tickets while using fewer miles.
One benefit that several airlines have done away
with is the ability to incorporate a
stopover with an award
ticket.
You can also book
stopovers on award
tickets with Singapore Airlines.
I then booked a separate
ticket from Bangkok to Phuket
with a
stopover in Hong Kong on the return.
You do have to book round - trip
tickets with ANA miles, but you can add 3
stopovers on your flight, and a round - trip
ticket to Europe in economy is only 55,000 miles.
Passenger is responsible for all taxes, fees, baggage fees and surcharges applicable to award travel, including,
with respect to government imposed taxes and fees, September 11th Security Fee of $ 5.60 per one - way trip that does not include a government defined
stopover, US Customs, Immigration and APHIS User Fees of $ 17.50 for each international arrival in the U.S.; and non-U.S. government
ticket taxes, fees and airport charges may add up to $ 275 per
ticket as of January 1, 2018.
It begins
with the tightening of restrictions on making a
stopover on award
tickets like dictating that
stopovers can not be in the region of origin of your
ticket.
For complex
stopover itineraries, like creating a pseudo round - the - world award
with a
ticket to Asia or Oceania
Previously, you could book a flight from the U.S. to Japan
with a
stopover in Europe on a round - trip
ticket.
When booking a one - way
ticket with the Mileage Plan frequent flyer program, you have the option to include a
stopover on your journey.
With three routes and
ticket options to suit
stopovers and short breaks, the hop on, hop off tours take in the very best of London's historical attractions, such as Tower Bridge and the London Eye to give customers a unique vantage point on the city.
Customers who book relatively simple award
tickets, especially
with a
stopover closer to their final destination, will see almost no impact in the cost of their award travel.
Round - trip saver award
tickets come
with a free
stopover, and round - trip flex award
tickets come
with two free
stopovers.
One interesting sweet spot includes a very intriguing «Go Round the World Award
Ticket» that allows you to travel across the globe,
with up to 15
stopovers for 220,000 American Express points in business class.
Previously, you could book award
tickets with Flying Blue miles and build in a
stopover on round - trip bookings.
If you want to fly from New York to Rome, for example,
with a four - day
stopover in London, it will cost the same 60,000 miles for a round - trip
ticket at the saver rate as it would for a direct flight to Rome.
Buy a cash
ticket or book a separate award to the Caribbean, book a Flying Blue award
with a
stopover in the U.S. on your way to Hawaii, on your return from Hawaii you'll still be flying on your Flying Blue award back to the Caribbean (and through the U.S.).
Even if I book a flight
with a
stopover at Abu Dhabi just before one week of my travel date, they make sure to provide me
with cheap flight
tickets.
United, on the other hand, is not only very liberal
with connections, but you can also have a free
stopover and up to two open jaws on a round - trip
ticket.
Also, as
with many airline loyalty programs,
stopovers are not permitted
with rewards
tickets, though you are allowed to book open - jaw
tickets (an airline return
ticket in which the destination and / or the origin are not the same in both directions).
There is little that competes
with the 50,000 - mile price for a one - way - plus -
stopover ticket.
Award travelers are familiar
with the concept of
stopovers because many airline loyalty programs allow free
stopovers on
tickets booked
with airline miles and points.
And if you book two separate
tickets with Malaysia so it's two oneways, you'd get a
stopover.
With Malaysia, you're allowed 5 stopovers in an award ticket with multiple OneWorld partn
With Malaysia, you're allowed 5
stopovers in an award
ticket with multiple OneWorld partn
with multiple OneWorld partners.
So, now we have 2 first class
tickets to Hawaii for my husband or I plus the the munchkin accounted for (rules require we buy the first
ticket, then pay ~ $ 111 for the companion
ticket), possibly
with a
stopover on the West Coast.
ORD - SEA
with a
stopover in Seattle and then SEA - LAX is 2,675 miles in length, and an award
ticket should start 12,500 miles.
The around - the - world
ticket allows eight
stopovers,
with a maximum of three in Europe and four in Japan.
As an example, 110,000 miles will buy you a round - trip business class
ticket to North Asia
with a free
stopover in Europe along the way, allowing you to fly Cathay Pacific.
Losing
stopovers on the majority of
tickets is a downer, but it's completely made up for
with the old award chart that allows 8
stopovers.
Booking
stopovers and open jaw
tickets online can be difficult
with some airline websites.
That chart has some real values, such as the ability to fly business class between the US and Europe for 90,000 miles roundtrip instead of the usual 100,000, the ability to pop around Europe
with several extra flights thrown in for 115,000 miles in business class instead of 100,000 miles roundtrip plus another 20,000 miles for each and every additional intra-European flight, and the ability to fly to Australia in business class via Asia (not normally allowed on a single award
ticket) for an extra 25,000 miles — and make
stopovers in Asia, and throw in Australian domestic flights at the same time.
For example, take the below very simple roundtrip award
ticket between New York and Rome,
with a
stopover in London on the way out.