Originally Posted by
yycworldtraveler
Published routes are only used to validate routings that are over MPM. The agent should require you to follow the published routing.
IME if your routing is under MPM you can go through whatever cities you want to reach your destination.
Thanks. I ask because I just booked a complex award with Delta, and my stopover was
not allowed because it was not on a published route. I had to change the stopover to one of two cities which were valid for published routing between my origin and destination cities. I wonder if this is a Delta vs. Aeroplan discrepancy, or if I got unlucky.