About this site

The Layover Loophole exists because airlines publish rules that let you stop in a second country on the ticket you already bought, and then bury those rules three clicks deep in a terms page nobody reads.

It is edited by Leandro L., working with a small independent team spread around the world and writing for travellers flying out of the United States. It is not an airline, not a travel agency, and not a booking engine, and it has no commercial relationship with any carrier it writes about.

What is here

Two kinds of page. Program pages cover an airline that publishes a stopover rule: what it gives you, what it costs, what the catch is, and a link to the airline page where the rule is written. Layover guides cover a single airport: whether you can walk out, how long the border takes, and what actually fits in the hours you have.

Every page carries the date the rule was last read at the source. When a rule is pending, ambiguous, or quietly pulled, the page says that instead of rounding it up into a promise. The method is written out in full on how we verify.

How the site is paid

Two ways, both disclosed on the page where they happen.

Some outbound links are affiliate links, marked as such in the markup. And some pages carry a phone number for an independent travel agency that books and rebuilds multi-city itineraries. That number is never an airline desk, the block that holds it says so, and we are paid a referral fee when you call. Agency service fees may apply and are between you and the agency.

Neither one decides what goes on a page. A program that is worse than it sounds gets written up as worse than it sounds. There is no ranking for sale here, because nothing here is ranked by anyone but the rule.

What this site will not do

It will not tell you to book a ticket you do not intend to fly. Hidden city itineraries, throwaway return legs and fuel dumps break the contract you signed with the airline and can cost you the account, the miles, and the bag. Every routing on this site is meant to be flown exactly as ticketed.

It also will not quote a fare as if it were fixed. Prices move hourly. Where a number appears, it is the number the airline published, with the date we read it.

Something wrong on a page? Tell us and we will fix it or say why we disagree.