Originally Posted by
mvoight
You are doing this all wrong.........
Use the free stopover at JFK, and fly JFK-<somewhere> days or months later for a free one way award
I just flew BKK-HKG-SFO on a first class award. I live in the Bay Area.... continuing on this same one way award, I will fly SFO-MIA-SJU in first class in February. Then, I will book a SJU-XXX-SFO award that continues to somewhere else later.
You are not addressing OP's issue.
His problem now is he could not even book JFK as either a stopover or a destination, because LHR-JFK is NOT available. The only way he could have LHR-JFK for his date is to book it as LHR-JFK-YYZ because JFK is only available as a CONNECTION in this LHR-YYZ married segment.
If LHR-JFK is available, he can certainly do what you suggest - such as booking LHR-JFK stopover, then fly to HNL or ANC or some remote town in Alaska as he pleases.
However, right now his issue is he cannot get back to JFK without adding YYZ as his destination due to the married segment.
BTW, your return SJU-XXX-SFO can only fly to somewhere in Asia if you want to have SFO as your NA gateway.