Turkish Airlines is running an intriguing promotion, though it will be of limited use to most.
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Great and quite overlooked program I think as it can be transferred from both Citi and CapitalOne miles.
Underrated redemptions that I think are people are mostly unaware of is flights to Hawaii on United Airlines, just 15k Turkish miles roundtrip in economy and a crazy good 25k Turkish miles for business class roundtrip if you can find availability. I keep looking almost everyday for United's flights for EWR to either Honolulu or Maui nonstop in business regular award availability havent had luck yet!
Also good is any of United's nonstop flights between USA to India for 55k miles each way in business class, where for UAL theres no fuel surcharges so with Turkish its just the miles plus about 5 bucks in tax!
Seems unclear if you book for someone else using your miles if it qualifies and if so who gets the elite miles?
Minor correction on your Delta point. Delta recently announced that they are extending the ability to earn status miles on award tickets through Dec 31, 2022.
Just a major warning to all: awards that weren't booked/paid online, rather done via the call center are de facto non-refundable. Over a month now, they haven't let me cancel an award I originally booked manually via the call center because their phone payment system is down and there is no other way to pay the $25 fee to cancel. I and others in a major frequent flyer forum have been experiencing this. As soon as this either gets straightened out (or the miles and flights disappear for good wasted), I will be deleting my TK account and never use them again for anything. My Citi strategy was kind of built around TK redemptions also, so may end up moving to Amex (sorry, Citi...).
Getting frequent flyer status with TK is not worth it at all! I am a gold member since 2018 and I never felt the difference between an Elite member and a regular member. The big blow is the latest mess they did. Customer service Elite line is just non-sense. I got too tired that I decided to stop flying with them. So better think twice and thrice and….. Your loyalty to them because of your status is not worthy, at all!