Originally Posted by
dberko2005
I checked to see the possibility of SJO and spoke to an AA rep, she said that the stopover has to be less than 4 hours or the next leg is considered a new one way award. I don't see how I could accomplish that route in F seeing as its 30k per leg.
The poster is suggesting you to pick SJO as your DESTINATION, when you originate the trip from HNL (or returning from HNL). You can route it to MIA as your stopover (so you are returning home) then later continue your journey to SJO.
You can actually book such itinerary on AA website yourself using MultiCity function.
To give you an idea, I currently hold a ticket that is HNL-LAX-MIA-LIM with the HNL-LAX-MIA has already been flown in Oct, but the MIA-LIM segment is currently booked to travel in January though I would definitely change the date to some later date when I get around to look at it. It actually costed me LESS miles in coach than just HNL-LAX-MIA, due to the travel started in the offpeak season of North America to Central / South America 1 region. (Only coach awards have Peak / Offpeak pricing in certain regions.)
Personally I have no interest to spend my AA miles in domestic F products - I would much prefer to spend it on AA partners' F products which we just did - just returned from HKG in CX F a week ago - 67.5K well spent for HKG-YYZ stopover for a few days, then YYZ-MIA to home.