Originally Posted by
HeathrowGuy
In theory, you're right. But in practice, airlines going to pure one-way awards often do force a member tradeoff between oneway redemption and stopover/permissive routings.
Agreed, but that's why they add a reasonable surcharge to the one-way award that is still nevertheless below the full cost of the roundtrip award, so that the one-way reward cost 75% of the rt award, not 100%