Originally Posted by derpelikan

as per the rules you can make one stopover .
if you are only 23hours 59minutes , its not a stopover.
stopover is over 24hours.

in my special case the only airline which is flying non-stop to NRT is Thai airways from mxp, so i think i will have no problems in getting this award with the lower mileage.

so if you redeem a bmi award a bit playing and getting the right agent can save you a lot of miles if you are going for first class tickets.

dp