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.
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.
In order to find
an itinerary with a stopover, select the multi-city option on the search page.
Since you can book Emirates
itineraries with stopovers and open jaws online, the only reason you'll need to call the airline's service center is to book a partner airline or change a flight.
Not exact matches
In general, I do not recommend searching for complex
itineraries that include open jaws or
stopovers using the Aeroplan website unless you also plan to book
with Aeroplan.
You'll find lots of tips and hacks to not only save money, but also to take advantage of free
stopovers and other lesser - known tricks,
with advice on which programs to use for your desired flight
itineraries and destinations.
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.
With their chart for two or three airlines including Cathay Pacific, you get five
stopovers, two transfers, and two open jaws anywhere in the
itinerary.
With Cathay Pacific you can build terrific itineraries with two, three, even five stopovers and you can backtrack even to the point of origin and keep fly
With Cathay Pacific you can build terrific
itineraries with two, three, even five stopovers and you can backtrack even to the point of origin and keep fly
with two, three, even five
stopovers and you can backtrack even to the point of origin and keep flying.
Back to the honeymoon... I then cancelled the second
itinerary, which had been a round trip from Bangkok to Phuket
with a
stopover in Hong Kong, and just booked two one - way flights in business class from Bangkok to Phuket and Phuket to Hong Kong.
Redeeming
with Korean Air can be a good option because of the flexible open - jaw &
stopover policies, so if you can find an
itinerary that allows for
stopovers or multi-destinations in the off - peak, you can find some good deals.
For complex
stopover itineraries, like creating a pseudo round - the - world award
with a ticket to Asia or Oceania
In addition, airberlin's online booking tool only allows you to search for one day at a time and often doesn't allow you to complete complex
itineraries, including flights
with stopovers.
So it's easy to create a very respectable round - the - world
itinerary for a song combining less - than -24-hour
stopovers with a long
stopover and open jaw.
That eliminates some
itineraries, such as New York to Singapore
with a
stopover in Europe, but still allows for some great routing.
As an alternative to round - the - world
itineraries, you can book this round trip award
with two
stopovers in Rome and Istanbul on your way to Bangkok.
With 600 crew and a passenger capacity of 2,500, the AIDABlu
stopover in the UAE capital was part of an Arabian Gulf
itinerary which begins and ends in Dubai but also takes in Muscat in Oman and Khalifa Bin Salman port in Bahrain.
First, Delta has done away
with stopovers on awards, which means that any stop greater than 4 hours on a domestic trip, or 24 hours on an international
itinerary, will cause the journey to be priced out
with an additional segment.
The six legs rule apparently only applies to
itineraries with multiple Skyteam partners,
with a single partner (in this case Korean Airlines) I am only allowed 4 legs, and no
stopovers (open jaw is ok).
With multi-city, you will be able to create
itineraries that include
stopovers in one or more locales, or depart and return from / to different destinations.
You can create
itineraries with up to six origin - destination pairs
with stopover at any enroute destinations, operated by Singapore Airlines (SIA), SilkAir (MI), and our partner Airlines.
I can vouch for the Mauritius option (or Reunion for that matter) as well — it was pretty easy to book an
itinerary through paris to reunion and mauritius (open jaw down there, but only because we wanted to see both islands — availability was pretty decent)
with a
stopover in Paris on the way back.
Or would I set up the
itinerary with South Africa as the
stopover, even though it's really our destination?
Laos is a long, thin country, so most backpackers create a Laos travel
itinerary around heading from one end to the other, usually breaking up the journey from Luang Prabang to Vientiane, or Vientiane to Luang Prabang,
with a
stopover in Vang Vieng.
For flights between Edmonton and Portland and for flights between Boston and Portland, it is a good idea to combine 2
itineraries into a single one
with a
stopover in Portland.