Originally Posted by
westcoastman
From personal experience: I booked BA award with BA miles and they allowed an open jaw and a layover. Booked BA award with AS miles and they only allowed one or the other. There is certain ways to get "forced" layovers even a bit greater than 24 hours but trying to squeeze a week in might be difficult.
I squeezed two weeks in SIN on the way to SYD--it was a forced layover by a sympathetic AS Partner Desk agent (there really were no seats for two weeks, and besides, I wanted to).
Actually, from what the Partner Desk told me, AS doesn't allow stopovers on BA awards anymore. They used to. Open-jaws may be allowed, but I'm not sure about that, since BA only flies to SYD now (all the other Australian airports are only served by QF).