Originally Posted by celetheo

Hi FT,

I have a fairly basic question regarding stopovers. To my understanding, UA allows stopovers for both domestic and international while AA only does international from a gateway city.

Here is the question: If I am planning a NY-SFO trip in December (likely using miles), can I book two one-ways and then use SFO/JFK as stopovers to, say, Tokyo and London? And, to take it a step further, if I wanted to do somewhere like Bangkok, would that count even if there were legs between SFO-BKK?

Thanks in advance. Still trying to understand the stopover game. Since it is a bit late for saver awards, I wanted to maximize my miles by booking a free flight to Europe and a free flight to Asia at some point in the next year...figure I'll try to grab saver awards coming back and egt a few trips locked down for 2013

EDIT: Also, how would this compare with a roundtrip booking? Or does it matter? And do you need specific dates to travel in advance (for the international one-ways)? Wanted to be prepared before calling in...thank you!!