Originally Posted by
TProphet
Are you sure? I was shot down when trying to do this (stopover at LAX en route to JFK) and was told Hong Kong was the only valid stopover point. I ended up using AAdvantage miles and I am combining AS and CX metal only. If I burned my Aadvantage miles for an award I could have done on Alaska, I'm sure not happy about it!
Originally Posted by
CDKing
Was this ticket CX+AS metal or was AA involved. I only ask as JFK is not a AS airport.
Come to think of it I have done a stop-over on CX award in SEA. Granted they may have allowed it due to no other saver seats available without a stopover. I was already booked as open-jaw at the time (ticket was YYZ-HKG-DPS-HKG-LAX-SEA-BOS). It was in 2011 so maybe things have changed
On a round-trip you are allowed an open-jaw OR a stopover. So if you already have an open jaw, you are not supposed to be allowed a stopover. It sounds like CDKing got a break and got both (wow!) but this should not be expected. Now that one-ways are allowed, the very generous 'one stopover' rule extends to a your one-way journey: you are allowed one stopover at any connecting city.
The stopover must occur at a CONNECTING city, ie one that you would already be going through. The stopover allowance doesn't mean your one-way journey is now a free-for-all multi-city. Your itinerary must be otherwise valid as a one-way if you weren't stopping over. So imagine if instead of a stopover, there was just a 4-hour connection. Is the one-way itinerary still valid? Then you are allowed a stopover at the connection city.