All AA Award Flight and Stopover/Final destination

[vt01]

Hi
I've been reading the AA Award threads both here and on FT but am still confused by the term stopover and what it means I can and can't do.

What I want to do is
ORD-RDU Stop for 18- 23 hours. This is what I would consider my final destination.
RDU-JFK Stop here for 4 days. I think this would be my stopover.
JFK-ORD

Now if I read the rules for an all AA award flight it says I'm allowed 1 stopover in addition to my final destination stop. So I think I can do what I would like.

This is how I've intepreted the rules for an all AA award in the US states only.
1. The 4 hour rule applies to distinguish between a transit and a stopover
2. I can have one final destination.
3. I can have 1 stopover in addition to my final destination - a stopover being more than 4 hours (see exception below)
4. I can have mutliple transits (connections less than 4 hours see STOPOVER below-unsure of this?)

STOPOVER
In an all AA award in North America a stopover is a stop between connections of more than 4 hours. If less than 4 hours it is a transit.
Exception to Stopover (a transit): The time to the next available connecting flight is longer then 4 hours but less than 24 hours then this is still a transit. If the next connecting flight is over 24 hours away, it will be classed as a stopover.

Now I read some stuff about logical connecting point being used as a stopover but I'm pretty sure this applies to all-partner awards.

Is my interpretation correct?

Thanks

 

[Dave Noble]

Re: All AA A Flight and Stopover/Final destination

You would need to as AAdvantage to the validity of the itinerary to be certain methunks since whether going via RDU would be classed as a logical routing

Dave

 

[vt01]

Re: All AA A Flight and Stopover/Final destination

You would need to as AAdvantage to the validity of the itinerary to be certain methunks since whether going via RDU would be classed as a logical routing

Dave

Thanks Dave..
What do you mean by logical routing?

PS. with your Mod hat on, are you able to change the title of the thread from
'All AA A flight.....' to
'All AA Award Flight....'

Thanks

 

[Dave Noble]

Re: All AA A Flight and Stopover/Final destination

Thanks Dave..
What do you mean by logical routing?

PS. with your Mod hat on, are you able to change the title of the thread from
'All AA A flight.....' to
'All AA Award Flight....'

Thanks

Whether they will allow a routing via RDU for a journey from CHI-NYC

Dave

 

[vt01]

Re: All AA A Flight and Stopover/Final destination

Whether they will allow a routing via RDU for a journey from CHI-NYC

Dave

Thanks Dave.. I'll have a chat with the AA award people and see what they say.. thanks for changing the title too...