Stopovers
Once upon a time I wrote about breaking British Airways Avios with stopovers and a few years later I figured it's time to redo the post because all my tips are dated for one reason. Since then a tool was built to help you figure out the best prices, because the "how" to use BA Avios is definitely not intuitive.
This post will not only go over the concepts of British Airways Avios award pricing, and how to get stopovers for free, but it will show you how to easily find multiple routes to have stopovers that would save you Avios.
I'll take you A-Z through...
Read moreIf you're unfamiliar with the concept of "stopovers" we have a great InfoGraphic that you can check out: Airline Stopovers and Open-Jaws InfoGraphic. I also recently did a Complete List of Airline Stopover Rules, but it's been awhile since I've had a more in-depth post on stopovers as an overview.
Here I'll be starting with "what is a stopover?" and "what is an open-jaw"? and progressing to booking more extreme tickets online or over the phone. If you're getting your feet wet in the stopover world, this will be a great overview for you.
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Decided to redo this post as it's been over a year and there are a few things to add/update. JAL like many airlines in Asia is complicated. 7 stopovers is an over simplification. Since I published this list last year, a few blogs have scraped that info and simply said that JAL allows 7 stopovers, but don't explain under what context. So I need to go back and explain a bit more about this. OneWorld tickets allow 7 stopovers.
Here it is, a basic list of airline stopover rules (with extended routing rules below):
Read morePreviously I had written a list of airline stopovers, but since then (if you didn't notice) I've gone chart crazy and I've written about a few more airlines like Korean. This post will give both a chart of each airline's stopover rules, and fuel surcharges.
Then I'll go give some great posts on stopovers too.
Couple things to note about this chart. Sometimes an award is bookable as a oneway, but I put roundtrip prices because you can't have stopovers on a oneway. The second thing is that I added a column about fuel surcharges. And even though it can say "Yes", there may...
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