Make Most of the Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles Scheme

You can great saving if your fly with Turkish Airlines, which has been offering great discounts. The Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles has been an exceptionally rewarding program for people willing to do a lot of extra work to earn their award tickets. While there have long been some amazing sweet spots, until recently the program has been very difficult to use. You could only book tickets in person at a Turkish Airlines counter or city ticket office. Recently, this changed.

The scheme Miles & Smiles is still not an easy program to use, but with some patience, it’s at least now possible to book awards over the phone. Theoretically, you can also book some award tickets on the website, but it’s just not ready for prime time. Given that there is no telephone booking fee, it’s better to call.

Benefits of Miles & Smiles Option

Turkish Airlines Reservations allows either one-way or round-trip awards. You can even add a stopover on round-trip award tickets. Be forewarned, though, that there are a lot of rules around this. Here, you want to take advantage of a stopover? You can have one stopover on the outbound or return on Turkish Airlines-operated flights.

The Turkish airlines’ Citi ThankYou and Marriott points both transfer to Turkish Miles & Smiles, with which you can gain access to these awards. Now that Turkish does pass along fuel surcharges on award tickets, but the award redemption rates are so low that this can still represent excellent value.

·         In case you are flying with North America to Europe and Turkey in business - It’s only 90,000 miles round-trip in business class from the U.S. to anywhere in Europe, which include all of Turkey. Try to redeem miles on lot Polish Airlines to minimize fuel surcharges.

·         North America to the Middle East in business - At just 94,000 miles round-trip to the Middle East, this is an absolutely unbeatable value. With some award programs, you’ll pay close that amount each way.

·         Flights within the United States (including Hawaii) in economy - It may be hard to believe, but you can redeem Turkish miles to fly United anywhere in the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) for 20,000 miles round-trip, or 10,000 miles each way. This is absolutely unbeatable, since United doesn’t impose fuel surcharges within North America.

·         Flights from North America to Mexico in economy - Winters are better in Cancun. Why not go for just 20,000 miles round-trip with no fuel surcharges? You can fly there or any other destination in Mexico on United, Turkish Airlines’ partner, with no fuel surcharges.

·         Flights from North America to Central Asia in business - Want to experience the mysteries of Kazakhstan? It’s only 105,000 miles round-trip to this destination in business class.

·         Flights from North America to Kenya in business - Want to climb Kilimanjaro? It’s an astonishingly low 98,000 miles round-trip. Some award programs charge this quite much one way to Kenya.

·         Flights from North America to the Middle East in Lufthansa first - If you’re departing from the West Coast and transiting through Europe, the Middle East can be a very long flight. Enjoy it in Lufthansa first class for just 139,000 miles round-trip. There are high fuel surcharges on this route, but that’s just a reason to have another bubbly, isn’t it?

·         Flights from North America to Australia and New Zealand in business - It’s just 150,000 miles round-trip in business class to Australia or New Zealand. Air New Zealand also has very low fuel surcharges.

Get your booking done with Turkish Airlines Reservations with plenty of benefits waiting for you.

Conclusion

Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles program may have a little challenge of its own. The flip side is that if you’re willing to accept the risks with this program and do the work, you can enjoy some unusually good value.