Star RTW Stopover Definitions
 

Just want to confirm the definition of a stopover in a Star Alliance RTW Ticket.

My understanding is that it's either:

1. Up to 23 hours and 59 minutes.
2. The next available flight.

Referring to point 1, this does not necessarily mean a flight on the same calendar day. E.g. could arrive on Monday at 10AM, but leave on Tuesday at 8AM - naturally on consecutive days.

Referring to point 2, I'm thinking of flights that don't run daily.

E.g. HNL-AKL, which runs on Friday & Sunday.
E.g. ARN-IST, which runs Monday and Friday.

My understanding is that these are two accepted definitions on the Star RTW. These are rules which I've used in the the past, which have been fine with ticketing - e.g. have used this on routes like LAX-PPT-RAR-AKL to wait at PPT and RAR for two days without eating up my stopover allowance. However it's an issue my travel agent has raised.

Could someone confirm this? The fare rules only mention a maximum of 24 coupons and 15 stopovers.

Appreciate FlyerTalk help as always!

You are correct on point 1. The other point, I don't know.

Also, NZ flies HNL-AKL 3x week (Wed, Fri, Sun). :)

a stopover is always longer than 24 hrs, anything under that will count as a transfer only. thats why you can visit the same city up to three times on a rtw, as lond as you plan carefully...

If the next available flight departs more than 24 hours after scheduled arrival of previous flight, then it is a stopover. If you got these treated as transits in the past then either the rules changed since then (when was this) or you were on a different type of RTW (purely as an example SQ/NZ/VS RTW but I haven't checked what rule that allows) or you were lucky.

On my most recent *A RTW I had to carefully plan my transfers through SIN as SIN-LHE and LHE-SIN are not daily flights, nor was ADL-AKL (which I connected from SIN-ADL). I had a further out and back from SIN on that itinerary (for 3 total transfers). Only 1 stop in SIN over 24 hours allowed.