Amol has provided some great examples of combining multiple one - way
awards with stopovers to effectively create round - trip tickets while using fewer miles.
Awards involving travel on Cathay Pacific, LAN, and
any award with stopovers can not be booked online.
Just today, Lucky posted about booking one - way
awards with stopovers on Emirates using Alaska miles online!
(Try booking
an award with stopovers using the multi-city search function.)
Awards involving travel on Cathay Pacific, LAN, and some complicated
awards with stopovers can not be booked online.
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.).
This post will focus on United miles, which are ideal for international economy and business class
awards with stopovers, open jaws, and free one ways.
Just MHO of course, but Alaska miles are pretty valuable give one - way
awards with a stopover, and partners that are in more than one alliance (and not in any alliance) plus no fuel surcharges except on BA.
Also, did you try to price out
any awards with stopovers?
Not exact matches
During their brief
stopover in San Francisco, we talked everything from Community getting renewed for a fifth, improbable season, to winning the aforementioned Academy
Award, to the differences between adapting source material from another medium and writing an original screenplay, to character development, and casting The Way, Way Back
with some of the better (if not the best) comedic actors of their (and our) generation.
Where this
award really shines is
with the ability to make 2
stopovers in addition to your final destination!
Stops of less than 24 hours en route don't count as a
stopover, making them fair game on even one - way
awards like this one, and United's booking engine somehow decided it had no issue
with a totally illogical «connection» in Phuket.
On top of the better
award chart, Alaska Airlines also allows you to book
stopovers which makes it easy to see multiple destinations
with one booking.
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).
Based on this check, it looks like using the
award flight to travel from Chicago to Istanbul, then from Antalya home through Luxembourg
with the one allowed
stopover, is the best option.
It costs 25K miles + booking fees and taxes to fly on a roundtrip (
with stopovers)
award flight.
But you also get free
stopovers on
award flights booked
with Alaska's excellent international airline partners, including Emirates, Cathay Pacific and Qantas.
United Airlines announced new changes to its MileagePlus
award rules this morning,
with lower change / cancellation fees for many members as well as a twist to how it lets people book open jaws and
stopovers.
There are more restrictions on
Stopovers with US Airways
awards than Aeroplan.
Remember, any
award ticket comes
with 1
stopover, so you can generate some more «
stopovers» by buying internal Asia flights / internal Europe flights.
It is possible to book most of the
awards as one - ways and build a multi-city itinerary
with stopovers and open - jaws, but they cost slightly more than half of a round - trip
award.
Before we dig into
stopovers, let's start
with a more traditional
award booking.
For example, you could fly from the U.S. to Paris
with a
stopover in London for the cost of one round - trip
award flight.
This is also in line
with Donna's goal to fly business class or first class as much as possible on this trip, as a business / first
award booking
with a
stopover in Luxembourg takes no more points than a direct flight back to Chicago would entail.
An
award flight booked
with Alaska loyalty program miles wouldn't be complete if you didn't include a
stopover, so take some time to explore Dubai before continuing to New Delhi or Mumbai.
Distance - based
awards with 3
stopovers is one of the greatest mileage values in the world.
Today I'm going to explain how you can combine that
with another, much older, Mileage Plan
award trick to book... [Read more...] about How to Maximize the Alaska Airlines
Stopover on
Awards to Hawaii
They have also increased the value of their
award redemption options by offering an extra
stopover on their own flights, as well as through partnerships
with select airlines.
One benefit that several airlines have done away
with is the ability to incorporate a
stopover with an
award ticket.
Breaking Travel News talks
with Abilio Martins, marketing and communication vice president, TAP Portugal, about the carrier, the launch of its new
Stopover Programme, and what it means to be recognised by the World Travel
Awards.
People willing to use SEA as their airport of choice can basically double the value of all their Alaska Airlines
award travel by booking
awards as one - ways
with a
stopover in SEA every time.
I've also written about a nice opportunity to get free
stopovers on domestic flights, making the Alaska Airlines
award chart particularly valuable: How to Book
Awards on Emirates
with Alaska Airlines Miles Alaska Airlines
Awards: Two Domestic One Ways for the Price of One It does take 90,000 miles each way to fly First Class, however, and the big downside is that Alaska... [Read more...]
Where this
award really shines is
with the ability to make 2
stopovers in addition to your final destination!
You can also book
stopovers on
award tickets
with Singapore Airlines.
Add these benefits to some of the most flexible
awards around,
with two open jaws, one
stopover, and the ability to combine different cabins and redemption rates in one itinerary, and you have a very powerful mileage program.
Though United's website allows an extremely seamless level of partner bookings compared to many other airline
award booking websites, it often runs into trouble processing complex itineraries
with stopovers.
The Air Canada Aeroplan
award chart is not exactly generous, but it has a great
stopover policy for intercontinental travel — up to two
stopovers for a round - trip flight
with one open jaw thrown in for good measure.
However, they allow
stopovers and even open jaws on
awards, so there's a lot of flexibility to be had
with them.
There are no one - way
award flights
with ANA, but you can have up to three
stopovers.
Travellers flying exclusively
with Singapore can include one
stopover on roundtrip saver
awards.
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
Alaska's
award chart for American Airlines includes American's off - peak rates, but
with the added benefit of two free
stopovers per roundtrip.
If you are willing to do this, you'll be rewarded
with a strong set of airline partners, the ability to make
stopovers on one - way
awards, and no - fee changes and cancellations even if you aren't an elite member.
When the
award search screen says, «You can break your journey
with stopovers,» select, «I want to break my journey and choose my
stopovers.»
You can include
stopovers when booking
award flights
with Japan Airlines miles but, remember, each mileage tier requires more miles to book.
If you want to break your journey up
with a
stopover en route to your final destination (A to C
with a
stopover at B) American Airlines will charge you the price of two
awards (A to B and B to C) and this requires considerably more AAdvantage Miles than if you were just booking an
award from A to C.
American Airlines does not allow
stopovers if you're booking an
award flight
with AAdvantage Miles and, unlike Singapore Airlines, there's no way to get around this by paying a small fee or by booking round - trip travel.
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.