Korean Air only
allows roundtrip awards)
Not exact matches
If you assume that $ 2,500 is a fair price for a Lufthansa Business Class
roundtrip ticket then,
allowing for the $ 620 in fees you have to pay on the
award, 105, ooo miles is getting you $ 1,880 of value.
Most programs require a
roundtrip booking in order to add a stopover into your itinerary and some
award programs don't
allow stopovers at all.
American Airlines also offers some of the best
awards to South America,
allowing you to reach Argentina and Chile — typically the higher - priced «Southern South America» zone — for just 40,000 points
roundtrip off - peak.
The trick is that you'll have to book a
roundtrip ticket since Iberia doesn't
allow one way
awards with American and you'll also have to book non-stop tickets from the West Coast or PHX (which is just under the 3,000 miles threshold).
All of the programs discussed in this post
allow you to book one - way
award tickets for half of the miles of a
roundtrip ticket (so assume 12.5 K each way per person).
United Airlines and All Nippon Airways (ANA) each
allow a stopover on round - trip bookings, while Japan Airlines
allows up to 3 stopovers on a
roundtrip award ticket.
United had relatively friendly
award routing rules that
allowed one stopover and two open jaws on
roundtrip award tickets.Those rules are gone now though and have been replaced by the «Excursionist Perk,» which is essentially a free segment on an international itinerary.
Aeroplan (Air Canada's program)
allows two stopovers or one stopover and one open jaw on a
roundtrip award ticket.
(For full
awards they
allow 1 stopover for a oneway
award ticket and two stopovers for a
roundtrip, but we'll more likely just pay attention to the saver
awards.)
Lufthansa miles have great rules for
award tickets,
allowing two stopovers and two open jaws for
roundtrip international flights.
Note that you can still enjoy United Free One Ways (although United miles are worth less with the United
Award Chart Devaluation) and US Airways (although only roundtrip award travel is allowed) and that Alaska allows an international stopover even on a one way a
Award Chart Devaluation) and US Airways (although only
roundtrip award travel is allowed) and that Alaska allows an international stopover even on a one way a
award travel is
allowed) and that Alaska
allows an international stopover even on a one way
awardaward.
Flying Blue also
allows a stopover and open jaw routing on
roundtrip awards, so even if you have to pay fuel surcharges, you may be able to get well more than the standard 1 cent per point or less that Citi gives for ThankYou point redemptions.
AAdvantage
allows one way
awards for half the cost of a
roundtrip and has more generous change policies, while US Airways has more generous routing rules.
They're making some other changes to their program as well, like adding more
award tiers,
allowing one - way
awards for half the cost of a
roundtrip, etc..
Rules: For international,
roundtrip award tickets, United
allows two open - jaws and one stopover (as long as the total number of connections for each direction does not exceed 3.)
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 Aeroplan
award tickets that are only on flights operated by Air Canada, 2 stopovers are
allowed on any
roundtrip to the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico.
Historically Delta SkyMiles has
allowed one stopover and one open jaw on a
roundtrip longhaul
award ticket.
One stopover is
allowed per
roundtrip Award Ticket under certain circumstances.
For instance, United has awesome rules for its
roundtrip award tickets,
allowing one stop over, and two open - jaws per round - trip
award ticket.
Singapore
allows one free stopover per
roundtrip award and up to three additional stopovers for $ 100 each.