Originally Posted by
FrequentFlyer9000
Any connections that you do not explicitly schedule do not count against your miles. So if one of your legs is New York to Oslo, but there is no direct flight and there is a connection in Paris, you only count the miles between New York and Oslo. The fact that you have to take a detour to Paris does not count in the total miles used.
Please correct the above, as per the previous discussion in the DL thread:
Originally Posted by
FrequentFlyer9000
STOPOVER - more than 24 hour stop.
LAYOVER - less than 24 hour stop, as scheduled explicitly by the traveler. Counts toward MPM.
CONNECTION - less than 24 hour stop (although potentially in rare cases more) as scheduled by the airline between two points. Different from LAYOVER because it does not count in the MPM, at least for many airlines. Not sure about Delta.
Which airline(s) don't count your "connection" in the MPM? I am not aware of any, though there may be some.
Originally Posted by
javabytes
No difference between layovers and stopovers, at least as far as routing is concerned. The only difference is the duration, with layovers being <24h for int'l and stopovers being >= 24h.
I'm also not aware of any airline that doesn't count connections in MPM. Otherwise, what would the point of MPM? In every case I'm aware of, MPM replaces specific routing rules.
Originally Posted by
Robert Leach
"Layover" is a term with which I am unfamiliar as it relates to airline rules. There are stopovers and there are connections, but I am personally unfamiliar with the term "layover" -- yet that seems to be a big deal with the OP.
Indeed, there is no such thing as a "layover", and the cumulative TPM of all connections (and stopovers) counts toward the MPM (if the MPM principle is used).
Connections "scheduled by the airline" concept only applies to the Routing principle (in which case the MPM does not apply).
Originally Posted by
FrequentFlyer9000
I've read in other posts that AC does not.
It does.