snuniyar

Hi, Can this itinerary is possible DFW-ANC-HNL-DFW with 30k flying blue miles using ANC as a stopover?

tbaiyun

As there's no direct flight DFW-ANC, neither ANC-HNL for Delta, you may probably end up making an iti: DFW-MSP-ANC-SEA-HNL, containing 4 segment for the outbound which may not be legal for the ticketing.

However, it does never harm to ask

irishguy28

You appear to be approaching this with a non-Flying Blue mentality.

Other FFPs you use may allow you to dictate the routing freely within permitted "zones". That is not how Flying Blue works.

Flying Blue will route you as directly as possible. You cannot dicate the route that you want to travel - or rather, all you can do is select from the available options.

The website shows that, for a DFW-HNL itineary, connections can be made in any of Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, or (and this one involves a lot of backtracking - and I would imagine it is never available at just 15,000 miles), New York.

You can only request a stopover on a return ticket where you have to travel through that location. So, you could request a stopover at any of Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, or New York - so long as a flight is available through that city on that date - for no extra charge.

You cannot dictate that a stopover should occur in any random city. And, in this case, ANC is definitely a random city. Delta does not serve ANC from either DFW or HNL. As such, you would have to route something like DFW-SEA-ANC-MSP-HNL...that is a definite no-no when there are plenty of one-stop itineraries which can do the job.

You can, however, buy it as 3 one-ways:

DFW-ANC;
ANC-HNL;
HNL-DFW.

snuniyar

Thats for the info. I did however end up calling them and was told there will be no stop over allowed on domestic flights.

irishguy28

It appears that, several years ago, the FB website explicitly stated that a stopover could only occur after an international flight.

This from an old thread:

However, the FB website no longer states this. But if the agent told you this, then I guess the rule still stands.

EDIT: Here's a screengrab of the relevant page on the KLM website from waaaaay back in 2011:

(That's a very strange definition of a "One-way trip"!!!)

irishguy28

The wording changed by late 2011, when Classic Awards became available as one-ways on a greater number of partners. The wording regarding stopovers then changed to state that they were not available on one-ways but said nothing about having to be in a different country...