Originally Posted by
mtkeller
LIR is in Central America. The OJ and routing are legal, so I'm not sure what's breaking down here. You've got more experience at this than I do, but I'm not following your logic.
Oops. I read LHR. My eyes are bad! Sorry. Still I don't think you can combine such award zones. I am pretty sure I can have an award from continental US to Hawaii, but then I have to end up in the continental US/Canada/Alaska. I can't end up in a third award zone (Central America).
I can have an award from DTW to Europe, return to DTW (stopover), then fly from there to somewhere in the continental US/Canada/Alaska. But I can't add DTW-OGG or DTW-LIR.
Since DL doesn't offer one way awards, thus you can't just combine the mileage for one-ways like the poster is trying to do.