We have seen a number of enjoyable promotions lately for incomes plenty of miles and even typically elite standing after carrying out fascinating challenges.
For instance, just a few days in the past, we wrote about how one can earn as much as 350,000 JetBlue TrueBlue factors and Mosaic elite standing for 25 years when you fly to 25 JetBlue locations. Now, Turkish Miles&Smiles is coming into the scene with its personal promotion.
The phrases and situations make it sound simple at face worth: Journey to 6 continents with Turkish Airways and win a million miles.
However the satan is within the particulars. So, this is a abstract of what you need to know earlier than diving headfirst into this promotion:
- You will need to e book and fly between June 27 and Oct. 27, 2025
- Eligible flights should originate from or transit by means of Istanbul
- Solely scheduled flights operated by Turkish Airways depend
- The international locations included in every continent are outlined in a chart on this web page
- Your frequent-flyer account for every flight should be set as Miles&Smiles earlier than journey (so you may’t take pleasure in advantages from one other Star Alliance standing after which credit score your flight to Turkish)
- Solely arrival locations depend towards finishing the required continents (so New York–Istanbul–Tokyo counts solely as Asia, however New York–Istanbul–Tokyo–Istanbul–New York counts as each Asia and North America)
- Award tickets, company settlement tickets, group tickets, employees tickets and particular passenger phase tickets (comparable to seafarer, medical and scholar fares) aren’t eligible for this promotion
- Tickets bought with a promo code aren’t eligible for this promotion
- You will need to e book by means of a licensed journey company or the Turkish Airways web site, cell app or gross sales workplaces
If you happen to efficiently go to six continents as outlined by the principles of this promotion, Turkish will deposit the miles into your account between Nov. 1 and 15.
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That is a variety of flying to rack up a million miles (and possibly much more alongside the best way). Nonetheless, as TPG bank card author Danyal Ahmed rapidly famous, “On the saver degree, that is 15 one-way business-class tickets between North America and Istanbul.” So if you consider it in these phrases, you could possibly stroll away from this promo with a variety of doubtlessly beneficial award journey as your prize.
I’m personally tempted by this promotion, particularly since I journey as a digital nomad and have a variety of open area in my journey schedule later this 12 months. Istanbul can be one in every of my favourite cities, so I do not thoughts originating from the town for a number of journeys if wanted. Nonetheless, it will be a bummer not to have the ability to use my Star Alliance Gold advantages that I’ve earned as an Asiana Diamond member, since I might want to connect my Turkish Miles&Smiles quantity as a substitute of my Asiana quantity to the flights for this promotion.
As somebody who as soon as took 18 flights in 16 days as a part of a promotion that received me Oneworld Sapphire standing for over two years, let me supply some recommendation when you’re contemplating this promotion: Learn and totally perceive the promotion’s phrases and situations earlier than you intend and e book your flights. One small misunderstanding or mistake may imply you spent some huge cash making an attempt to realize this promotion with out reaping the reward.
Editorial disclaimer: Opinions expressed listed below are the writer’s alone, not these of any financial institution, bank card issuer, airline or lodge chain, and haven’t been reviewed, accepted or in any other case endorsed by any of those entities.
