Originally Posted by
BristolTraveller
I'm trying to work out if different definitions of "stopover" apply to Europe, or for tickets that originate in Europe, as opposed to other zones.
Well at least in Europe there is one common definition, which is that a "stopover" is any stop longer than 24 hours and a "transfer" is any stop 23 hours and 59 minutes or shorter.
I thought the definition applied to most countries and continents, but apparently the US is an exception.
I have made use of the transfer rule several times myself, spending 22 hours in a city enroute. Never been a problem except that one or two agents have told me "this is not really the way it was meant to be".