Originally Posted by
skimthetrees
The word on the forum here is that the AS booking engine now only allows a maximum stopover of 14 days. If your stopover is longer than 14 days you will get an error. I do not recall seeing this documented but it is enforced by the booking engine. You probably would not have luck calling in to book a stopover of more than 14 days. It is barely possible you could book a stopover of between >24 hours and 14 days which the booking engine allows and then call in to move the stopover further out. The system would error out but if there was no written policy communicated to the agents you might be able to convince a supervisor to override it once you already have a stopover booking and award space is verified for the changed date.
[MENTION=261295]skimthetrees[/MENTION] - This is the first time I'm hearing about this 14-day stopover rule, but this definitely makes sense - I moved the NRT-TPE leg to within 14 days and the booking engine allowed it. I followed your suggestion and booked the trip. Will call in and go from there. Thank you very much for educating me on this!
On a separate topic, I have an SEA-SFO-HND trip departing in 2 weeks, SEA-SFO in AS and SFO-HND in JL, with a ~4hr layover in SFO. In ExpertFlyer I see coach saver availability on a later SEA-SFO flight, so I'm trying to change my first leg to that flight. However, again the booking engine wouldn't let me. Is there any potential reason behind this? The SEA-SFO flight I'm trying to change to lands at 10:17am, and the SFO-HND flight departs at 12pm. I wonder if the search engine is enforcing some sort of a minimum layover time for international flights.