US Airways
The US Airways/American Airline merger might be up in the air so it's anyone's guess as to how this unfolds. So I figured I'd talk about the Pacific Hopper using US Airways miles while it for sure still exists.
The Pacific Hopper is the flight we did from Guam to Rarotonga, Cook Islands via Singapore, New Zealand, Sydney, Tokyo and more. South Pacific to South Pacific is 30,000 miles in Business class for a roundtrip! We paid 40,000 miles to do it...
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US Airways has many of the same loosey goosey routing rules United does in regards to adding a stopover. While they add a few more restrictions, they do have some great prices on their award chart. Some better than United. Here is a post explaining everything you need to know about booking stopovers when using US Airways miles.
First, let's get down to the rules.
1 stopover or 1 open-jaw. No adding open-jaws to stopovers like United, in this case we have to choose one or the other. If I had to choose one, I'd most likely choose a stopover unless...
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One thing about airline stopover rules is that terms are sometimes undefined. US Airways does a decent job but some of it is still trial and error.
Rules
Basically US Airways allows a stopover OR an open jaw. Here are the relevent rules:
- "Stopovers are not permitted when travel is within one award region..."
- "Open jaw travel is defined as flying to a city and returning from a different city on a valid routing having one common city. The distance between the two open jaw cities cannot exceed the distance of the outbound or return trip. This may include certain itinerary...
This is a more advanced post but if you have the vacation time and the miles or the will to accrue the miles this could be a concept that might help make a dream trip possible.
Let me explain! Trust me this could be an awesome way to see a lot of places on one ticket.
I actually first had the idea with United but it is most applicable to US Airways because they only do round-trip tickets when redeeming miles for a flight. A round trip ticket on US and United might often cost the same amount of miles...
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