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Old Sep 3, 2012 | 8:03 am
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Originally Posted by nova08
Though is the mileage the same if you break it out into one-ways? My friend is trying to book EWR-CUN then CUN-IAH(3 day stopover)-EWR for his honeymoon.

We found a EWR-CUN econ saver award but then CUN-IAH-EWR are both standard awards. The total comes out to ~52,500k miles for the total award. For the life of me I can't figure out how it is broken down to add up to 52.5k. I am pretty sure CUN-IAH is 35k and IAH-EWR is 25k which already exceeds the total.

You're not allowed a stopover on one-way itins. Only if you book the whole thing will the stopover price favorably.
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