seawolf,

Can you please elaborate on the stopover rule (an int'l stop of greater than 24 hrs.)? I thought that a C Class ticket yielded a (free) stopover, but my last experience proved that assumption false. Is this where I got it into my head that Tokyo is different from other int'l stopover points on a C Class ticket? Or, am I just inventing a perk that I wish United would grant to us?

I flew ORD-PVG a couple of weeks ago and stopped in Tokyo overnight to see a colleague (this is one of the two normal routes to PVG from ORD...through NRT or SFO). Instead of booking a C class ticket to PVG and taking a "free" 26 hour stop in Tokyo, I needed to purchase a ticket to Tokyo, and then another separate segment to PVG from NRT. The price difference between ORD-PVG and ORD-NRT is/was substantial.

How does this stopover rule work overseas?