Originally Posted by
hqly2001
Very well said.
I've just redeemed for 300k BA miles and looking to fly F to hk and 1-2 more stops next year. I'm a bit confused as to how the unlimited stops work so if you have some stop ideas, please PM me or share. I'd thought about SFO-HKG-Sin-DPS.. on the map they look like they're direct routes and no back tracking but I dunno if that would fly. BA agent I spoke to was a bit impatient. Figured I'll call back when I have time.
The problem with SFO-HKG-SIN-DPS is that you can't do it with a single BA partner, unless Cathay flies directly from SIN to DPS, which I don't think they do (I maybe wrong though).
The main constrain with BA stopovers isn't that they should be "direct routes", but rather that your stopovers have to be at partner hubs. So e.g. you can always stop at HKG if you're flying with Cathay, or you can always stop at NRT/HND or KIX/ITM if you're flying with JAL. To stop at SIN on your way to DPS, you would need to find a direct Cathay flight. If there isn't one (which I think is the case), then you could do SFO-HKG-SIN and DPS-HKG-SFO. So you'd need to purchase a separate SIN-DPS oneway flight, or book it as a separate inter-Asia award flight with BA or another airline.