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.
Travellers flying exclusively with Singapore can include one
stopover on roundtrip saver awards.
The rates in American Airlines business class using Alaska miles are 20,000 miles cheaper, but remember, Alaska Airlines has a very generous stopover policy allowing one stopover on one - ways and two
stopovers on roundtrips.
You can book 1 free
stopover on roundtrip saver awards and one way standard awards.
North America to Caribbean, Central America, Mexico: 1
stopover on roundtrip or 2 stopovers on roundtrip if all flights operated by Air Canada
One
stopover on roundtrip; zero stopovers on one way award.
Also, Singapore Airlines allows
a stopover on roundtrips, so this could be an awesome option if you have the points!
Not exact matches
On a
roundtrip saver award, you can add one
stopover and one open jaw.
In this scenario, you were able to get your
roundtrip YHZ - YYZ flight made (using miles)
on Dec 23 — Dec 29, using the
stopover feature.
So for only 20,000 miles each way, you can fly from Istanbul to Abu Dhabi or Dubai
on Turkish Airlines or connect in Cairo for a free
stopover in Egypt
on a
roundtrip award.
It costs 25K miles + booking fees and taxes to fly
on a
roundtrip (with
stopovers) award flight.
Remember, you're given one complimentary
stopover when you book a Saver
roundtrip on Singapore Airlines.
Aeroplan allows for very flexible booking when traveling between North America and the US as you can incorporate two
stopovers or one stop over and an open jaw
on roundtrips.
The lack of
stopovers is a bummer but if you only have your sights set
on one destination in Europe this becomes less of a concern and the
roundtrip for 45,000 becomes much sweeter.
While United is going to tighten up its
stopover rules after October 6, you can still enjoy a «detour»
on the way to or from your destination
on the condition that they are in the same region (for example you will still be able to visit London and Munich
on the same
roundtrip flight, but not Paris and Hong Kong).
In our last post
on stopovers, we talked about how to use United's free
stopovers to see two places in Europe for the same amount of miles as a
roundtrip.
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on roundtrip award tickets.Those rules are gone now though and have been replaced by the «Excursionist Perk,» which is essentially a free segment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.
Plus,
on roundtrip tickets, United still allows you to make one
stopover either coming or going.
United international
roundtrips allow a
stopover and two open jaws which basically allows one to tack
on free or heavily discounted one ways to
roundtrips.
But one
stopover is allowed
on a
roundtrip ticket.
Alaska companion tickets are only valid for
roundtrip tickets, not multi-city itineraries, but there seem to be fairly recent reports of people doing a
stopover or open jaw, or even both, though I wouldn't count
on it.
But good thing you get a
stopover on oneways, or 2
on a
roundtrip.
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 award.
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.
On the plus side, one - way awards will be permitted for half the cost of a
roundtrip, though clearly
stopovers will be eliminated.»
If you're traveling
on Korean Air metal, you can book one - way awards for half the cost of a
roundtrip, and can even have a
stopover in Seoul Incheon
on a one - way award, if applicable.
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.
On any
roundtrip award with Singapore miles, you get one free
stopover and up to three more for $ 100 each.
For example, take the below very simple
roundtrip award ticket between New York and Rome, with a
stopover in London
on the way out.
For partner redemptions, I couldn't find any information
on stopovers or open jaws, though for partners you can book one way (like American Airlines), you know a
roundtrip can have two open jaws.