Turkish Airlines Offering 30-40% Off Economy Award Tickets

Turkish Airlines Offering 30-40% Off Economy Award Tickets

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The Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles program has just launched an award redemption promotion. This has the potential to be a good deal, though the catch is that only economy redemptions are discounted, and not business class ones (unlike some past award sales we’ve seen from the program).

Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles award ticket promotion

Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles is running a redemption sale, offering a 30-40% discount on economy redemptions.

Turkish Airlines is offering up to 40% off awards

The 40% discount applies to economy award tickets departing from the following airports in the Americas:

Atlanta, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cancun, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Caracas, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Montreal, New York, Panama, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington

The 30% discount applies to economy award tickets departing from the following airports:

Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Addis Ababa, Aqaba, Aktau, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Asmara, Astana, Ashgabat, Athens, Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Bamako, Bari, Basel, Basra, Batumi, Belgrade, Beirut, Bilbao, Billund, Birmingham, Bishkek, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brussels, Budapest, Bukhara, Bucharest, Geneva, Djibouti, Dakar, Dammam, Doha, Douala, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Dushanbe, Düsseldorf, Encemine, Erbil, Fergana, Frankfurt, Freetown, Ganja, Goteborg, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hurghada, Isfahan, Alexandria, Juba, Cairo, Catania, Casablanca, Kirkuk, Kinshasa, Kishinev, Conakry, Copenhagen, Cologne, Constanța, Krakow, Kuwait, Leipzig, Librevil, Luanda, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakech, Marseille, Muscat, Mashhad, Mogadishu, Munih, Nakhchivan, Naples, Najaf, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Nuremberg, Oslo, Palermo, Beijing, Podgorica, Prague, Pristina, Riga, Riyadh, Salzburg, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, Samarkand, Seoul, Seychelles, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Shanghai, Sharm el-Sheikh, Shiraz, Tehran, Taif, Taipei, Tallin, Tashkent, Tabriz, Tbilisi, Turin, Toulouse, Turkestan, Ulaanbaatar, Urgench, Skopje, Warsaw, Venice, Vilnius, Vienna, Yaunde, Zagreb, Zurich

There are some restrictions to be aware of:

  • This is valid for bookings made between September 26 and October 2, 2024
  • This is valid for travel between November 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025
  • There are blackout dates of December 10, 2024, through January 15, 2025
  • This applies to promotional economy award tickets (the name of Turkish Airlines’ cheapest award types)
  • This is valid for travel on Turkish Airlines, whether flying one-way or roundtrip
Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8

Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles award pricing

Below you can find the Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles award chart, with all pricing being one-way and per segment (unfortunately the program was massively devalued earlier this year).

Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles award chart

Pricing isn’t bad if you’re traveling to or from Istanbul, but the issue is that award pricing is additive, which makes the cost of connecting itineraries quite expensive.

But there are good deals to be had with these discounts. For example, a one-way award between Istanbul and North America ordinarily costs 40,000 miles, so with a 40% discount, you’d be paying just 24,000 miles. That’s a pretty awesome deal, assuming you’re happy flying economy.

Turkish Airlines Airbus A350-900

How to earn Turkish Airlines miles

Turkish Airlines partners with two transferable points currencies, giving those with credit cards easy access to these miles:

Turkish Airlines Lounge Istanbul Airport (IST)

Bottom line

Turkish Airlines is offering a 30-40% discount on economy awards. This could be a great deal, and with this, you can fly between the United States and Istanbul for just 24,000 miles. That’s a bargain, though it is a long flight in economy, and there are definitely other ways to get deals on premium cabin awards.

Do you plan on taking advantage of this Turkish Airlines award sale?

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  1. Anti-Turk Guest

    There is not a chance in the world that i would support Turkish Airlines and the Turkish President. Just saying.

  2. Onthedownwind New Member

    The timing of this isn't a surprise. TK are completing botching an attempt to revise their commercials with the major reservations distributors (GDS) and their content has been removed from the Sabre GDS since 1 September, which must have reduced their new booking volume globally by at least 20%, probably much higher. Simultaneously, they are also trying to force travel agents that are able to still book via other GDS to use their own their...

    The timing of this isn't a surprise. TK are completing botching an attempt to revise their commercials with the major reservations distributors (GDS) and their content has been removed from the Sabre GDS since 1 September, which must have reduced their new booking volume globally by at least 20%, probably much higher. Simultaneously, they are also trying to force travel agents that are able to still book via other GDS to use their own their own direct platform to avoid a $24/ticket. Other airlines have done something similar but in those cases they have always offered an alternate GDS route (NDC via GDS), since GDS is the only practical way almost all travel agencies can manage the aggregation of 100s of airlines. TK have a great hub and a nice product but they are still beset by complete incompetence at senior level.

  3. MoreSun Guest

    Is Adam’s more upset about his indictment or missing this sale?

  4. ImportViking Member

    Someone please inform Eric Adams!

    No, wait...

  5. RetiredATLATC Diamond

    Ben,

    Do you have any work around for Aeroplan issued tickets for TK as far as being able to manage the booking? TK app/site refuse to allow management of flights, even with the TK PNR and emailing them is a nightmare.

  6. Anthony Diamond

    That’s nothing - Turkish Airlines routinely was offering Mayor Adams 90-95% off of his business class tickets….

  7. ML Guest

    Interesting. I thought some people departing NYC got even bigger discounts on TK travel, including free upgrades.

    1. Aidan Guest

      The funniest AvGeek dimension of the Eric Adams indictment today is that Turkish Airlines exclusively flies A330s and 777s out of JFK and Newark. He wasn't even getting bribed with their *good* international business class product!

    2. ML Guest

      Although in true avgeek fashion, he flew to CDG via IST

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Anthony Diamond

That’s nothing - Turkish Airlines routinely was offering Mayor Adams 90-95% off of his business class tickets….

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Anti-Turk Guest

There is not a chance in the world that i would support Turkish Airlines and the Turkish President. Just saying.

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Onthedownwind New Member

The timing of this isn't a surprise. TK are completing botching an attempt to revise their commercials with the major reservations distributors (GDS) and their content has been removed from the Sabre GDS since 1 September, which must have reduced their new booking volume globally by at least 20%, probably much higher. Simultaneously, they are also trying to force travel agents that are able to still book via other GDS to use their own their own direct platform to avoid a $24/ticket. Other airlines have done something similar but in those cases they have always offered an alternate GDS route (NDC via GDS), since GDS is the only practical way almost all travel agencies can manage the aggregation of 100s of airlines. TK have a great hub and a nice product but they are still beset by complete incompetence at senior level.

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