It's an award, TBS is the stopover, the destination was BEY, but I am changing it to IST. I directed them to the provision on united.com that says two open jaws are ok (since they told me this wasn't the case), then they told me stopovers weren't ok (again showed them the provision). They are allegedly doing the changes now, just hope they don't mess it up and scrap my QR flights, I am due to leave Friday...this has been ticketed for months, just decided to make this change as the situation in Syria has convinced me this is not the time to visit Beirut.
IST is now in Europe, it used to be in Europe or Middle East (whichever was cheaper), but i'm not asking for mileage back. I am still paying the middle east rate even if it's just for going ex-CAI.