Stopovers less in 24 hours?

[Gary. Wang]

Is this true that CX stopover had to be less in 24 hours? If this is true, what is this stopover for? Can I expand the time and how much usually would it cost?

 

[serfty]

I am not sure about your question.

The travel industry standard for connecting flights internationally is that if the time between flights is 24 hours or less then it is considered a transit.

If great than 24 hours then it is a stopover.

This can affect availability, taxes, levies and surcharges.

e.g. AAA-xBBB-CCC is considered routing AAA-CCC. AAA-oBBB-CCC is considered AAA-BBB followed by BBB-CCC. the '-o' is optional.

Note that specific fare rules may vary this default.

 

[RooFlyer]

I guess your question stems from this thread

From memory when I tried to do a stop over en route to the US earlier this year I was limited to 24 hours. After that the points required increased.

In this case, his 'stopover' wasn't possible on the same fare (points cost) and he was limited to a 'transit'.

If I may say much the same as serfty, but a little less technically

If the time between inbound and outbound flights into an airport is more than 24 hours, for most fares/airlines you are considered to have had a 'stopover' at that place and the inbound and outbound flights are usually regarded as separate flights. They will usually cost more.

 

[drron]

For example I often do a RTW or zone fare that has a limit on stopovers.So say if flying back DFW-LAX-BNE then if I get a DFW-LAX flight on AA that lands 10 minutes after the QF flight to BNE is scheduled to fly I can have a day in California and not use up a stopover.We actually have done this a few times.Gives mrsdrron an extra day Outlet shopping.

 

[Gary. Wang]

I guess your question stems from this thread


In this case, his 'stopover' wasn't possible on the same fare (points cost) and he was limited to a 'transit'.

If I may say much the same as serfty, but a little less technically

If the time between inbound and outbound flights into an airport is more than 24 hours, for most fares/airlines you are considered to have had a 'stopover' at that place and the inbound and outbound flights are usually regarded as separate flights. They will usually cost more.

So when I use my point to book Round the world trip with CX, stopovers has to be less in 24 hours. If not, flight will be redeemed as seperately flight and will cost me more miles?

For example I often do a RTW or zone fare that has a limit on stopovers.So say if flying back DFW-LAX-BNE then if I get a DFW-LAX flight on AA that lands 10 minutes after the QF flight to BNE is scheduled to fly I can have a day in California and not use up a stopover.We actually have done this a few times.Gives mrsdrron an extra day Outlet shopping.

Will the airline allow that? When I buy tickets with money, the airline usually make me book connection flight more Thant 50 minutes. How could you manager to book the second flight just 10 minutes later? Is there any different rule when using money or points?

I am not sure about your question.

The travel industry standard for connecting flights internationally is that if the time between flights is 24 hours or less then it is considered a transit.

If great than 24 hours then it is a stopover.

This can affect availability, taxes, levies and surcharges.

e.g. AAA-xBBB-CCC is considered routing AAA-CCC. AAA-oBBB-CCC is considered AAA-BBB followed by BBB-CCC. the '-o' is optional.

Note that specific fare rules may vary this default.

I am hoping using my CX points to book a round the world trip in the future. If the stopovers has to be less in 24 hours, it means to nothing me at all. So I asked the questions above.

 

[drron]

Will the airline allow that? When I buy tickets with money, the airline usually make me book connection flight more Thant 50 minutes. How could you manager to book the second flight just 10 minutes later? Is there any different rule when using money or points?

I just search the flights and my TA books them.Never had a problem.

 

[RooFlyer]

So when I use my point to book Round the world trip with CX, stopovers has to be less in 24 hours. If not, flight will be redeemed as seperately flight and will cost me more miles?

No; where do you get that? You will have to read the Terms & Conditions for the CX fare. A round-the-world fare usually has a number of sectors (flights) allowed and sometimes there is a defined number of stopovers (stops >24 hrs). This is different from you constructing a series of flights that take you around the world.

I am hoping using my CX points to book a round the world trip in the future. If the stopovers has to be less in 24 hours, it means to nothing me at all. So I asked the questions above.

I suspect you haven't researched it much yet, and we are here to help. if you want to use your Cathay miles to fly around the world, you will probably have to buy a 'OneWorld Explorer' ticket, using Cathay miles. See here: Fare products | oneworld - Cathay Pacific Then see here oneworld Explorer - Enjoy a seamless round-the-world experience for the OneWorld set up. There are different length RTW fares (points) with different numbers of sectors allowed. All stops can be 'stopovers' >24 hrs.

Will the airline allow that? When I buy tickets with money, the airline usually make me book connection flight more Thant 50 minutes. How could you manager to book the second flight just 10 minutes later? Is there any different rule when using money or points?

What drron was saying was that he plans his departing flight to depart 23hrs 50 mins (for example) after the arriving flight, so he has almost a full day and night in the city, without it counting as a 'stopover'.

 

[Gary. Wang]

I just search the flights and my TA books them.Never had a problem.

Thank you for your help. Does TA mean teaching assistant?

Thank you a lot. I should had done research more.
I just saw another post in this forum. I think I take it wrong.
Thank you again.

No; where do you get that? You will have to read the Terms & Conditions for the CX fare. A round-the-world fare usually has a number of sectors (flights) allowed and sometimes there is a defined number of stopovers (stops >24 hrs). This is different from you constructing a series of flights that take you around the world.



I suspect you haven't researched it much yet, and we are here to help. if you want to use your Cathay miles to fly around the world, you will probably have to buy a 'OneWorld Explorer' ticket, using Cathay miles. See here: Fare products | oneworld - Cathay Pacific Then see here oneworld Explorer - Enjoy a seamless round-the-world experience for the OneWorld set up. There are different length RTW fares (points) with different numbers of sectors allowed. All stops can be 'stopovers' >24 hrs.




What drron was saying was that he plans his departing flight to depart 23hrs 50 mins (for example) after the arriving flight, so he has almost a full day and night in the city, without it counting as a 'stopover'.

ju

 

[get me outta here]

TA is a travel agent.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

So when I use my point to book Round the world trip with CX, stopovers has to be less in 24 hours. If not, flight will be redeemed as seperately flight and will cost me more miles?


Will the airline allow that? When I buy tickets with money, the airline usually make me book connection flight more Thant 50 minutes. How could you manager to book the second flight just 10 minutes later? Is there any different rule when using money or points?


I am hoping using my CX points to book a round the world trip in the future. If the stopovers has to be less in 24 hours, it means to nothing me at all. So I asked the questions above.

If I recall correctly the Cathay Asia Miles RTW fare allows 5 stopovers and two transits. The stopovers can be converted to transits.

Stopovers are anything more than 24 hours. Transits must be less than 24 hours.

So your RTW ticket will give you up to five cities where you can stay as long as you like. And two connections (transits) need to be less than 24 hours.

If you don't need to go to five cities for an extended period you can concert some of your stopovers to transits.