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Jul 23, 2008, 7:26 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Oceanrider

I was very surprised to learn today that when using the Citibank reduced mileage award for international (Canada) travel, they will not allow you a stopover city like a regular non-reduced award allows you. I was told that if I wanted a stopver city I could use more of my miles for a regular award, but could not benefit from the Citibank promotion using less miles.

I think that's always been the rule, no stopovers at all, not just to Canada.

It actually makes sense, otherwise you could go anywhere for the reduced mileage, given how flexible AA's regular award stopover rules are.

Example: I want to fly DFW-MIA. MIA is not on the list. But ATL is. So I ticket DFW-ATL, with a stopover in MIA (DFW-ATL-MIA-DFW), with 90 minutes at my destination in ATL and a week stopover in MIA.