Avoiding HIP
 

Hello!

I have tried searching and cannot find a relevant thread but is there a stickie or something on how to avoid HIP rules on stopovers?

Thanks in advance...

You cannot if it is not waived by fare rules and is applicable. Most you can do is to
1) have more than 24 hour layovers when the next available scheduled flight is not available 'today' (when you book or change)

2) get some extra stopover time in case of irregular operations (cancellations, delays etc), again normally not further then the next available scheduled flight (with destinations as per your affected ticket coupon or most likely the final destination at all).

And you can come accross some not very wise airline staff, but they will certainly be penalised for this, so you probably need to think of being a bit ethical.

the idea is to make a layover out of a stopover to get a cheaper fare?

as stated above, find a schedule where there are no other flights....

what is hip? it isn't in the glossary....

"HIP" is an IATA fare construction abbreviation for Higher Intermediate Point.

Since OP has already asked the same question in the AA forum in this thread I'll close this thread and remind OP in future not to create identical thread topics in multiple for as per FT TOS.

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