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Flying for Fun
If you are asking if you can fly free from HKG-HND the answer is an unequivocal No! Once the first segment is flown, the award is consumed and there is nothing left to refund whether you fly the onward segment or not.
You can have a stopover in HND on a JL HKG-TYO//TYO-ORD itinerary so I am not sure why you would want to do that. If your intent is to just visit Japan, book an Asia to Asia award. HKG-TYO on JL in J is 25K miles.
Thanks and apologies for the confusion. My intention is not flying for free but getting the miles of the remaining unflown portion redeposited. The reason why I am asking this is: right now HKG-HND on my intended travel data has no award availability, and if I ask AS to only cancel the long haul flight, by changing a 65K stopover itinerary into a 25K intra-asia OW flight, my concern is a possibility of losing my HKG-HND segment (please chime in if you think this is not an issue). So it would be safer to just fly the first segment and then cancel the rest to get 40K miles back. Hope this makes sense now.
