Originally Posted by
ORDnHKG
Is this a joke or what ? No airline will sell you a ticket that include a 25 hours layover in ORD period, not unless your ticket is dirt cheap.
If not you are forcing yourself a layover, and no airline will give you free overnight hotels if you force a layover.
P.S. There are 2 UA BWI-ORD flights arrive ORD at least an hour before NH11 departs, so there is no way you can't get one of the two, unless you don't want to pay more, or is this an award ticket and no seat available for those two earlier BWI-ORD flights ? No airlines pay for hotel accommodation when you are on an award. Not to mention, both UA and NH fly IAD-NRT, any reason that you are so stuck on flying out of BWI ? Or how much is the difference ?
Nope, not a joke, but the ticket is indeed dirt cheap. Booked through PL (regular, not bidding), $660 per person, and it was legit ANA flights (or codeshare) all the way. I checked ANA's site right after the booking and found a few more dates with that price (well, actually $10 cheaper than PL), most of them having this long layover.
It was originally a 23 hr layover, arrive at ORD 11am, and leaves 10am next morning. I thought there was rule of 24 hr to distinguish between a "layover" and "stopover", and that was why it was 23 hr. But got a few rounds of schedule changes, and now it became 25 hrs at ORD, which actually surprised me.
Since we've never been to Chicago, the plan is to tour the city for a day when I booked the ticket, and I had that expiring Marriott cert lined up. I asked this because I heard ANA offered hotel accommodation before for situation like this (but mostly at NRT).