Originally Posted by Diabo
You wrote "you would need to buy 2 separate tickets, period...." and that is plain wrong. Whether you buy two tickets or a single ticket with a stopover doesn't make any difference.
Sorry, but you're not correct on this one. There is a difference between the two, because a stopover is defined by AA as being more than 4 hours in length. Refer back to the original post that started this tangent (in post #29):
Originally Posted by UserMark
I guess you could be right. Stranger things have certainly turned out to be true. But here's how I see it:
You go to AA and say, "I want to go DFW-DEN from 10:00 - 12:00 and then I want to spend 3 hours there and at 3:00 I want to go to LAX. How much does that cost?" They give you a price (which may be a through fare, but that's irrelevant) and you agree to it. They can't just make you skip DEN without your consent.
If a person only wants to spend three hours in a city, the only way to guarantee that it will happen is to buy two separate tickets. A simple stopover will not suffice, because when the stop is less than four hours, it's not a stopover. It's a layover.
In the context that this was originally presented,
andrzej was right. A person wishing to spend 3 hours in a city, in order to guarantee that this will happen with 100 percent certainty, needs to buy two tickets - period. A ticket with a stopover will not suffice, because 3 hours in a city is not a stopover.
Mike