Thanks for the clarification.

By the way, not trying to be argumentative, but really it is not the same topic. This is a general question about using layovers to strategically change the allowable stopover locations.

The last thread was a specific question for a specific routing. I used the same example cities, but it is a different and much more general question here. Clearly it was not a dumb question as two esteemed posters have so far given me two different answers. Yours makes more sense, as otherwise it sounded too good to be true.