How to force longer layover
 

I;ve searched the forums endlessly and couldn't find much info on how to force longer layovers? ITA seems to have an option to do that but I can't figre it out.

thanks

Simplest way may be to do a "multi-city" search, specifying airports, and dates and times.

SEA-ORD 7AM
ORD-JFK 8PM

ITA is also pretty good about giving long stopover times, they just might price out higher, or get sorted away if over 500 itinerary options.

But that way the price goes up a lot because it looks at it as a separate flight. What's the more compicated way?

Not sure about the relation to a Mileage Run... I'll move this to Travel Buzz for a more general discussion on scheduling layovers...

Dave, a.k.a. dmfriedman
Moderator, Mileage Run

For US/CA/PR/VI trips, anything over a 4 hour stop is considered a stopover, and most fares within US/CA/PR/VI don't allow stopovers. Generally this will cause a break in the fare and an increase in cost. Even when fares allow stopovers, there's often a surcharge applied.

For most international trips, the limit is generally 24 hours. And international fares more often allow stopovers, often without a surcharge.

There is the exception (supposedly) if your layover is between the last flight of the night, and the first flight of the next day. Then the domestic layover can be greater then 4 hours.

Steve B.

I noticed that the fare rules for a quite a few UA fares are now allowing stopovers in DEN mainly for a nominal fee.

There are other exceptions too (e.g. domestic within another country, "next flight out" semantics, etc.), and many of the automatic pricing systems (including us) don't handle a lot of them because they're ill-defined.

That's why I sprinkled the word "generally" liberally through my post :)

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Minconnect command in ITA
 

This thread shows how to specify a minimum connection time as well as padding the existing min connect time. Hope this is what you're looking for.