We have seen a number of enjoyable promotions not too long ago for incomes numerous miles and even generally elite standing after undertaking attention-grabbing challenges.
For instance, a couple of days in the past, we wrote about how one can earn up to 350,000 JetBlue TrueBlue points and Mosaic elite status for 25 years should you fly to 25 JetBlue locations. Now, Turkish Miles&Smiles is coming into the scene with its own promotion.
The phrases and circumstances make it sound straightforward 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 must 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 depend
- The international locations included in every continent are outlined in a chart on this page
- Your frequent-flyer account for every flight have to be set as Miles&Smiles earlier than journey (so you possibly can’t get pleasure from 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, workers 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 certified journey company or the Turkish Airways web site, cellular app or gross sales places of work
Should you 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 number of flying to rack up a million miles (and possibly much more alongside the way in which). 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 possibly can stroll away from this promo with a number 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 a number of open house in my journey schedule later this yr. Istanbul can also be one in all my favourite cities, so I do not thoughts originating from town for a number of journeys if wanted. Nonetheless, it could 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 got me Oneworld Sapphire status for over two years, let me supply some recommendation should you’re contemplating this promotion: Learn and absolutely perceive the promotion’s terms and conditions earlier than you propose and guide your flights. One small misunderstanding or mistake might imply you spent some huge cash attempting to attain 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 resort chain, and haven’t been reviewed, accepted or in any other case endorsed by any of those entities.