Stopovers
It's finally here. This post has some of the most unique and useful tricks for tricking United's pricing system and showcases all of United's stopover rules.
However, the content has been dated and some of the prices have been off since United changed their award chart. But today I've redone the post with current prices and concepts!
While this is a more advanced post, it might be an eye opening read. If you have United miles, know that when making an award booking, you are allowed 1 stopover and 2 open-jaws. We'll see just how far we can...
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Frequent flyer miles are freaking awesome if only for the fact that you can have stopovers when using them. Of course, it's awesome when you figure out how to get miles for free, but it's all the more awesome when you can use those miles to get to see more places than you could on a paid ticket. And that's what this post is about.
As always, let's begin by defining terms a bit, just so we're all clear about what's what for the rest of the post.
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Many airlines offer their alliance's "Round the World" tickets available for miles. In this post I'd like to confront these questions: what are the prices and rules? And are these tickets a good deal?
Of course, each airline is different and each travel plan is different. But this guide should tell you all you need to know about using your miles for round the world tickets, and comparing them to "normal" award redemptions, along with other programs.
Read moreYes. It does suck.
Just kidding... that's not what I'm talking about. But instead, it's as good as I predicted. Here is exactly what I said:
Q: Will the routing rules (like stopover rules) change on Feb 1?
A: No. Apparently United doesn’t see the need to let people know about upcoming changes to routing rules, but they do let people know about upcoming award chart prices. Anyways, there’s no correlation between the two.
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