MilesBuzz! - Do any airline programs allow a one-way award ticket with a stopover?

Do any airline FFPs allow a one-way award ticket with a stopover for less than the number of miles required for the RT award ticket?

I would like to fly KEF-FLR (or Pisa) -WAS with a stopover in FLR. I believe that only SAS and BA fly to KEF (other than Iceland Air), so I am probably limited to OW and *A awards. Do any OW or *A programs allow one-way awards AND a stopover?

Thank you.

BA & QF -- there may be more?

You wrote "...fly to KEF." Are you flying to KEF from somewhere or are you starting in KEF?

"One-way with stopover" is really more like an open-jaw, not a one-way, isn't it?

I'm not sure if you can use an all-partner AA award for this, but it should be valid as an AA OneWorld award. If starting in KEF this is an OW60Y award at the cost of 60,000 AA miles.
http://www.aa.com/apps/AAdvantage/ViewMileageProgramsPartnerDetail.jhtml?fileName=on eWorld.xml&repositoryName=AAdvantagePartnersContentRepository&repositoryId=100082&itemDescriptor=AAdvantagePartnersContent

However, I didn't verify whether OneWorld partners actually fly to those cities.

P.S. There's a sticky with more details here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=433366

Delta allows open-jaw. America West and Northwest may (they did in the past). The trick with open-jaw, at least on America West and NW, is that the "open" part has to be the shortest distance (think of your trip as forming 3 legs: start to point A, A to B, and B to home. the shortest leg has to be the one you didn't travel). I successfully got them to bend the rule about 5 years ago but who knows today??

AA allows both open-jaw and stopover on an award itin.

Found out that NW does NOT (have to pick either open-jaw or stopover), or if you want both it's an additional 12,500 miles.

(Found out while trying to claim a partner award on AS... same exact itin, but AA was more flexible than NW).

AA allows both open-jaw and stopover on an award itin.

Found out that NW does NOT (have to pick either open-jaw or stopover), or if you want both it's an additional 12,500 miles.

(Found out while trying to claim a partner award on AS... same exact itin, but AA was more flexible than NW).

Hmmm...several months ago, I booked a NW intra-Asia award with a an open jaw and a stopover (in GUM), using NW & CO flights. Is this a recent NW change?

Hmmm...several months ago, I booked a NW intra-Asia award with a an open jaw and a stopover (in GUM), using NW & CO flights. Is this a recent NW change?

Dunno... I wanted SNA-SEA-YVR/YYJ-SEA(stopover)-SNA, all on AS, and was told the above. I started a thread on the NW forum and it was confirmed there.

AA allows both open-jaw and stopover on an award itin.

It allows such on round-trip awards.

AA doesn't really have one-way awards; just roundtrip awards that can be used one-way at the same price as a RT award ticket. Alternatively, there's the OneWorld award ticket option with which you are familiar; but that is often more expensive in miles and time or otherwise not possible considering that it requires at least two OneWorld partners besides AA in order to get ticketed.

BMI does allow for stopovers on one-way award tickets; BMI's one-way award tickets (with stopovers) are priced at 50% of the roundtrip award ticket price.

Do any airline FFPs allow a one-way award ticket with a stopover for less than the number of miles required for the RT award ticket?

I would like to fly KEF-FLR (or Pisa) -WAS with a stopover in FLR. I believe that only SAS and BA fly to KEF (other than Iceland Air), so I am probably limited to OW and *A awards. Do any OW or *A programs allow one-way awards AND a stopover?

Thank you.

BMI does allow for one-way awards AND a stopover. :)

... and so does BA.

With both, it still may be a case of YMMV because the award ticket rules may not allow for such a routing; but on the routing-related restrictions, best to check with the BA or BD boards.

To all those commenting about open-jaw on NW,CO,DL, and so on...

The OP wants this done "for less than the number of miles required for the RT award ticket," but I think not everyone is addressing that. (That's why I posted the required AA miles to do what he wants.)

Side note-- I have a hunch that the desired routing cannot even be done with a single alliance anyway!

Side note-- I have a hunch that the desired routing cannot even be done with a single alliance anyway!It cannot be done without change of planes, of course. I'm pretty sure the only way you can do it with is BA and that only if going via PSA. (So that would be 1World then.)

FWIW, this proposed itinerary would not involve an open jaw, as it technically isn't one. For it to be an open jaw, the distance between the open-jaw cities must be shorter than any of the other cities on the itinerary, which does not occur in this case. (The open-jaw cities, KEF and WAS, are ~2800 miles apart, more than 800 miles greater than the distance between KEF and either PSA or FLR.)

Mike