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Old May 20, 2012, 11:15 am
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PapaSmurf
 
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Originally Posted by TXHolmes
You can squeeze in a day at a connection city, anything less than 12 hours is a connection, and they will usually let you have longer if the next available flight is booked (which has happened, giving us a day and an overnight in a "connection" city). This also may not work too well if you don't sleep well on planes, because if you have a day in one city, then an 8 hour flight, then a day in another city, you really need to feel rested, haha.
Actually, anything less than 24 hours in not considered a stopover. So you can have as many of these along the way as you want.
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