Hello, I seem to be on a posting mood today (instead of working mood, which is what I really *should* be doing... ).

Anyway, since I'm now in need for some EB points I'm trying to construct a cost- and time-effective MR thingy. The WFAIR-fares from Finland (to be sold until end of January) are quite cheap and the routing rules liberal. They do require a Fri-Sat or Sat-Sun night stay, though.

But I'm trying to do something different this time. I want to force an overnight in ARN so that I would fly to ARN on Friday night, spend the night at an airport hotel (at the same time finishing the 3-stay promo for Radisson/Park Inn hotels), then fly from ARN to XXX on Saturday morning, making immediate turnaround and fly back to HEL in time to enjoy the Saturday afternoon home.

Possible destinations for me could be somewhere in Germany (FRA and TXL seem to be the logical ones) and CPH. I suppose BRU could do as well. The most important thing is that there should be an early morning flight from ARN.

The fare rules state that a stopover is not allowed, but then again it explicitly defines a stopover as lasting more than 24 hours, which my stay at ARN would not exceed.

I've found plenty of availability for certain flights, but the big question is how do I go on booking this? The regular booking engine on the SAS website cannot handle this (as clicking on the more flights link will eventually cause it to report some internal errors). Tried Travelocity's quite handy multi-city feature, but it quoted me a price that was around 3-4 times as much as the WFAIR fare. And these flights all had availability on the W class. Go figure.

Anyway, do you think the call centre agents could book such a trip for me? Do I need to have some explanations handy (like vetoeing on a meeting in ARN and some papers to be delivered in the final destination of XXX)? What are your experiences on this? Or should I just contend myself with a HEL-ARN-HEL roundtrip?