If YVR is the last place that you are before leaving the North American region, which it is, then yes, it can be a NA gateway city. Any place in NA that is the last place you are before leaving NA, or the first place you arrive when coming back in to NA, is considered a gateway city and you are allowed to stopover.

Yes. CX889 all the way to HKG. I was told I dont need to get off the plane in YVR. Just trying to learn what extra I can get out of this trip. Thank you.

You could try to see if you can get a free one-way to JFK and convince them that that's your actual North American gateway. You would have to fly the one-way, else your ticket would be canceled. Also, unless your miles came from an EXP account, it would be $150 to change origin.

You could have a stopover in YVR the way you have it set up now. CX 889 one-day to YVR, stopover, then CX 889 to HKG (or 837 on the days where it has F).

Award Ticket: SFO-JFK DOH-RGN with stopover in DOH?
 

Trying to use my UA miles for an award ticket to SE Asia and found this route on combination of UA and QR flights for 32.5 k miles OW

Will UA allow me to have a stopover in DOH for no additional miles? (not a stopover in North America)

Or will that reprice the itinerary as a middle east trip and cost me 40k miles OW?

If I can stopover in DOH, how long can that stopover be?

Any other NA to SE asia routes that go TATL to allow stopovers in Europe or the middle east?

I also found SFO-MUC-BKK-RGN (on combinations of UA and TG)

Actually looking to go to BKK as a final destination with ideally a stopover in DXB, but most of the time when I put in SFO-BKK it routes me transpacific.

Going back to the original question BMI did allow that. Not sure about now.

Darn I was hoping to do PHX DFW (stop) MEX MAD.

Can one do LAX HNL (stop) NRT?

Fyi the UA QR partnership has ended or will soon.

Still showing up as bookable for award miles on their website as far out as February.

So does UA allow a stopover outside of North America?

There is a thread about this in the UA forum. AFAIK one cannot book QR over the phone. Only one way awards online. So I doubt a stopover is possible.

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Only if the carrier for the HNL-NRT leg publishes a LAX-NRT through-fare that permits routing via HNL.

If you include QR in your award, better pray that you dont need any change / assistance down the road. When a partnership is ended, any subsequent change involved that partner could be a night mare even for a top elite of the airline.

But how about in general (not necessarily QR) does UA allow a stopover in another geographic area that is not origin or destination? (i.e. N. AM- Europe (stopover) - SE Asia?)

Yes but on a RT award.

Assuming it is, can it still be done? Just want to know if there is a clause that only continental NA gateways can be used.

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No, there's no restriction that limits the stopover to continental gateways, although AA recently excluded Caribbean stopovers. I believe that others have already posted about getting a stopover at HNL on certain international awards.