Originally Posted by
OskiBear
I've had this happen - if they don't qualify as true stopovers (where you stay longer than the allowed time 4hrs/24hrs), you can't seem to force the AA booking engine to spit them out. If you do a "multi-city" search, you get the message above. I've been successful in using Google Flights to do the search, create the itinerary, and launch the AA booking from there. That seems to work most of the time.
The "stopover" time was 5:45 or so.
What's bizarre is that starting at AA.com it
could be booked as an award itinerary even though it would not generate as a paid itinerary. But starting at Kayak (and I would assume Google Flights) it
could be booked as a paid itinerary – Kayak took me straight to the AA.com booking page with the itinerary all set up and priced.
Very strange.