Originally Posted by myefre
I have been curious about this myself since I am working on building up enough miles to go to Australia. What are the rules for stopovers? how long, how many
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Is this possible? AUS-LAX-SYD stop SYD-AKL stop AKL-LAX-AUS
Yes.
On an all-airline award you can have one stopover at your destination, plus one at your international gateway city. In your example, AKL is the international gateway from South West Pacific to North America.
You can also tweak the rule by using an open jaw. For example, if you wanted to go from AKL to MEL and stop there like a sensible person for a few days or perhaps a lifetime before going back to the US, you would ticket the award with no segment between AKL and MEL, and buy a one-way flight between the two. I just did almost exactly this with a routing BNA-xLAX-xSYD-MEL(stop) // BNE(stop)-xSYD-xLAX-BNA. The internal flight was A$145, about US$110.