Stop over in a hub city?
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As far as stopping over in a HubCity. Northwest will let you stop over for up to 24 hours in Minneapolis/St. Paul for FREE as part of a promotion for the Mall of America. NW is also letting people stop over FREE in Hawaii on the way to/from Asia and Australia for a limited time.
Make that 48 hours in MSP. Continental also lets people stopover in Denver, on most fares. In general, there’s a tyrick you can use. If you want to go from A to B via H, and want to stopover for a few hours in H, do the following. Book the latest possible connection of the day A-H-B. Then, show up on a standby basis for the first morning flight A-H. If there are seats available (and there are usually seats available on early morning flights except on mondays), you have all day to spend at the hub city, before getting on your scheduled late H-B flight. |____o,___/ ____| College of Computing | | o’ | Atlanta GA 30332-0280, U.S.A. Fax: +1 404 853-0673 |
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If you want to try an overnight stay in a hub, schedule the last hub to destination flight of the day. On flight dat, try to fly standby to that hub through another hub, e.g. A-H2-H1-B instead of A-H1-B, H1 being the original hub. Try to schedule as short as possible of a layover between hubs, in the hopes that your second flight will get delayed, forcing you to be "stuck" in H1 overnight. EWR (Newark/Continental) is a great hub for creating excessive delays on both arrivals and departures. Another trick, which I used to get an extra night once, is to miss your connection, then show up the next morning saying you missed the flight (again the last flight of the day), so can you fly stand-by on the first flight? Claiming I was sick with sinusitis and asking if I could stay overnight didn’t work with Continental/Cleveland, but I needed to make it to a wedding the next day, so I wasn’t willing to take too much of a risk. –mike…
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NW is also letting people stop over FREE in Hawaii on the way to/from Asia and Australia for a limited time.
International routings are frequently different. Many airlines will let you make a free stopover on the west coast or in Hawaii on the way to Asia or the South Pacific. Now, does NW really let you make a stopover in Hawaii on the way to Australia? When I called them about this about 4 months ago, they no longer allowed this as they had lost the authority to fly from Hawaii to Sydney. | The opinions expressed above are my own and do not necessarily | | represent those of The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA. | | |
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I wonder if anyone can tell me if I can make a stop-over in a hub city with a non-changeable, non-refundable ticket? It will be a Delta flight transfer in Salt Lake City? Victor
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I wonder if anyone can tell me if I can make a stop-over in a hub city with a non-changeable, non-refundable ticket? It will be a Delta flight transfer in Salt Lake City?
Stopovers on many/most tickets, including nonrefundables, generally require an additional fee, of say, $75-100. One thing that I have succesfully done is to fly the first leg a day early on a standby basis, stayed overnight in the hub city, and then continue on my normal itinerary the day I was originally ticketed for. Some nonrefundable fares have rules that say that you can only fly standby on the day you are ticketed for, but gate agents frequently overlook this and will put you on the next flight that has room on it. | The opinions expressed above are my own and do not necessarily | | represent those of The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA. | | |
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I wonder if anyone can tell me if I can make a stop-over in a hub city with a non-changeable, non-refundable ticket? It will be a Delta flight transfer in Salt Lake City? Stopovers on many/most tickets, including nonrefundables, generally require an additional fee, of say, $75-100. One thing that I have succesfully done is to fly the first leg a day early on a standby basis, stayed overnight in the hub city, and then continue on my normal itinerary the day I was originally ticketed for. Some nonrefundable fares have rules that say that you can only fly standby on the day you are ticketed for, but gate agents frequently overlook this and will put you on the next flight that has room on it.
I’ve had this work once and I’ve tried it many times. Three times from MSP to BOS (once via DTW) and they denied me all three times. This was trying for the day before my flight. As far as stopping over in a HubCity. Northwest will let you stop over for up to 24 hours in Minneapolis/St. Paul for FREE as part of a promotion for the Mall of America. NW is also letting people stop over FREE in Hawaii on the way to/from Asia and Australia for a limited time. -Noah Cole —
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