Originally Posted by
BigRedBears
The Alaska agent was super helpful and was willing to see if we can price this out, but the system was giving her an error. She supposedly checked routing rules and said that a stopover on North America-South Africa award is only allowed in HKG.
Is that correct? I know that some backtracking has been allowed on awards before, but I'm can't find any info supporting or opposing this.
Thanks.
You can thank the idiot who blogged about backtracking on an EK award via Europe and transitting DXB twice.
Since then, Alaska has put in better checks in place.