Stopovers
<Quick recap> from yesterday's post.United allows a stopover and open-jaws and you can use the stopover in your home town and open-jaw to a different location for a later date. Kids these days call it a "free one-way". So you can fly NYC to Rome and come back to NYC and use that as your stopover and later fly to Houston (which would be your open-jaw as you started in NYC and ended in Houston). Sometimes this can save miles and this can even be used on international routes.
Even on roundtrips with United, they price the routes each...
Read moreThis series in some ways was an attempt to prove that Avios points don't suck, unless you suck at using them. Of course, it depends on where you live as to how awesome they actually are. But most places are one segment away from an AA hub, and thus can position themselves for a great, cheap route. Certain places are better for certain routes, because living in Boston is a stone's throw away from Dublin, I'd be making that trip for the weekends. Plus it helps to live in hub cities - MIA, LAX, DFW, etc...
But if you take...
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If you've been trying to book a stopover with United.com then you may have been frustrated by the Error screen a time or two.
Sometimes you put in a route that follows all the rules (one stopover and two open-jaws) but it still doesn't let you book! It only gives that Error message. In this post we'll go over basic reasons why you get the error, some ways around it and why you really need to make sure your flight actually gets ticketed.
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How did I use 17,500 United miles to see two Caribbean Islands and Panama? Better yet -how can you route to see 3 or more places with 17,500 United Miles? This is a post on how to use oneway awards to create 20 hour layovers in multiple hotspots at no extra cost.