Can I add a stopover to a new ANA partner-airline one-way award?

Under ANA’s rules for new partner-award reservations and tickets issued on or after June 24, 2025, one-way awards are possible, but a stopover is not allowed on a one-way itinerary. A new round-trip award has a different stopover allowance. Choose the award structure before planning a longer intermediate stay.

What this answer depends on

  • ANA Mileage Club partner awards newly reserved and issued on/after 2025-06-24; stopover threshold in hours, checked 2026-09-22.
  • The current partner-award section permits one-way reservations and ticket issuance from June 24, 2025.
  • ANA defines a stopover here as exceeding 24 hours: none on a one-way award, and one in addition to the destination on a round trip.
  • Partner awards exclude Premium Economy as an eligible award class, and miles shortfalls cannot be covered with cash or ANA SKY COINS.
  • A person moving overseas may need a one-way award but also want several days in a connecting city. Treating that visit as an ordinary connection will not solve the award restriction. The practical comparison is between valid separate journeys and a different usable itinerary, not between different names for the same long stay.
  • These are ANA Mileage Club rules for redeeming on partners, not the partner’s own loyalty-program rules. A cash ticket sold by an agency is a different product. Ask ANA to validate the redemption structure; do not expect an unrelated seller to apply this award chart.

Important exceptions

  • The source retains historical text that says one-way awards are unavailable. That older section must not be applied to a new purchase under the dated current section. Routing, operating-carrier exceptions and award inventory can still prevent a particular itinerary; no route availability is asserted here.

What to do next

  1. Write the intended flight sectors and the time spent at each intermediate city. Mark the actual destination separately from a place you merely connect.

  2. Decide whether the trip is genuinely one-way or includes a return journey. Do not add an unused return solely to imitate an allowance.

  3. Compare a valid round-trip construction with separate award purchases for the journeys you really intend to take. Check the cabin and miles funding of each actual offer.

  4. Use the current rules section and confirm the final itinerary through ANA before arranging nonrefundable plans around an intermediate stay.

  5. Prepare each sector, operating airline, desired cabin, local dates, stop durations and the miles balance available to pay for the award.

  6. Assistance is useful for an open-jaw or multi-partner construction, especially when an intermediate visit or surface journey makes the itinerary hard to classify.

More booking questions

Does the old round-trip-only wording still govern a new purchase?

Use the expressly dated current section for new reservations and issuance.

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Can cash fill an ANA partner-award mileage shortfall?

The cited rules say it cannot; ANA SKY COINS cannot fill it either.

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