We have seen a number of enjoyable promotions not too long ago for incomes a lot of miles and even generally elite standing after undertaking attention-grabbing 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 in the event you fly to 25 JetBlue locations. Now, Turkish Miles&Smiles is getting into the scene with its personal promotion.
The phrases and circumstances 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, here is a abstract of what you need to know earlier than diving headfirst into this promotion:
- You need to guide and fly between June 27 and Oct. 27, 2025
- Eligible flights should originate from or transit by Istanbul
- Solely scheduled flights operated by Turkish Airways rely
- The nations included in every continent are outlined in a chart on this web page
- Your frequent-flyer account for every flight have to 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 rely 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 (akin to seafarer, medical and pupil fares) aren’t eligible for this promotion
- Tickets bought with a promo code aren’t eligible for this promotion
- You need to guide by a licensed journey company or the Turkish Airways web site, cell app or gross sales workplaces
For those who efficiently go to six continents as outlined by the foundations of this promotion, Turkish will deposit the miles into your account between Nov. 1 and 15.
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That is quite a lot of flying to rack up a million miles (and doubtless much more alongside the way in which). Nonetheless, as TPG bank card author Danyal Ahmed shortly famous, “On the saver stage, that is 15 one-way business-class tickets between North America and Istanbul.” So if you consider it in these phrases, you might stroll away from this promo with quite a lot of doubtlessly worthwhile award journey as your prize.
I’m personally tempted by this promotion, particularly since I journey as a digital nomad and have quite a lot of open house in my journey schedule later this yr. Istanbul can also be certainly one of my favourite cities, so I do not thoughts originating from town for a number of journeys if wanted. Nonetheless, it might 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 would want to connect my Turkish Miles&Smiles quantity as an alternative 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 obtained me Oneworld Sapphire standing for over two years, let me provide some recommendation in the event you’re contemplating this promotion: Learn and absolutely perceive the promotion’s phrases and circumstances earlier than you propose and guide your flights. One small misunderstanding or mistake may imply you spent some huge cash making an attempt to attain this promotion with out reaping the reward.
Editorial disclaimer: Opinions expressed listed here are the creator’s alone, not these of any financial institution, bank card issuer, airline or resort chain, and haven’t been reviewed, permitted or in any other case endorsed by any of those entities.
