<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TRESY:
Does anybody know of any permitted zone jumps from the UK to take advantage of the 1 stopover allowed within the rules?</font>
Hi
It's a little difficult to give you an answer given that you haven't provided a destination (to tell me which zone you want to end up in) - however the very basic answer is that if you wish to 'zone jump', then you will have to use the number of points required for the higher zone.
The only exception to this is 'unless a connection can only be made on Qualiflyer Partner airlines via this further zone'.
That being said, you are permitted a maximum of 8 sectors on a reward ticket (with some expections such as you cannot stopover at the same place twice etc). A stopover only counts if it is longer than 24 hours.
If you were flying from the UK, then a sample itinerary, for Zone 1 (UK to Europe/Northern Africa) could take you:
London-Warsaw (LOT) - Budapest (LOT) - Zurich (Swiss) - Lisbon (Swiss) - London (TAP).
Other combinations are possible and perhaps other Flyertalkers will give you some suggestions if you want.
Hope this has been of some help.
WG