Originally Posted by
FrequentFlyer9000
So to eschew any further obfuscation, the rule can be simply stated as "A stopover can only occur in a city that is part of a published fare between the origin and the destination [i.e. point of turnaround] or between the point of turnaround and the final stop of the itinerary [i.e. could be origin or another city via last leg open jaw]."
I don't think that definition applies to my MSP-JNU round trip with the stopover on the return in SIT. I guess it depends what one's definition of "part of a published fare." That certainly doesn't eschew any further obfuscation.
Originally Posted by
FrequentFlyer9000
Javabytes, is this also true of layovers, or are the rules relaxed for those?
I am not javabytes, but I don't see any difference between layovers and stopovers, so my assumption is that the rules are the same (pending your answer to my question as to which airlines treat the two differently per your definition).