Originally Posted by
daslax
I'm currently booked on an award ticket FCO-HEL-LAX with a 1 hour layover. I now would like to fly out of BLQ the day prior, but the LAX flight does not operate that day, so I would need to do an overnight in HEL, which I'm willing to do. But is this a legal change to an award ticket or is it now viewed as a stopover that would require separate payments for each segment?
If the scheduled time to the next flight is above 24 hours then it is clearly a stopover.