Win 1 million miles by flying Turkish Airways to six continents

We have seen a number of enjoyable promotions lately for incomes a lot of miles and even generally elite standing after conducting fascinating challenges.

For instance, a number of 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 for those who fly to 25 JetBlue locations. Now, Turkish Miles&Smiles is coming into the scene with its personal 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, here is a abstract of what you must know earlier than diving headfirst into this promotion:

• It’s essential to e book and fly between June 27 and Oct. 27, 2025
• Eligible flights should originate from or transit via 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, workers tickets and particular passenger phase tickets (comparable to seafarer, medical and pupil fares) aren’t eligible for this promotion
• Tickets bought with a promo code aren’t eligible for this promotion
• It’s essential to e book via a licensed journey company or the Turkish Airways web site, cell app or gross sales places of work

When 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.

That is loads of flying to rack up a million miles (and possibly much more alongside the way in which). Nevertheless, as TPG bank card author Danyal Ahmed shortly 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 may stroll away from this promo with loads of probably helpful award journey as your prize.

I’m personally tempted by this promotion, particularly since I journey as a digital nomad and have loads of open house in my journey schedule later this 12 months. Istanbul can be certainly one of my favourite cities, so I do not thoughts originating from town for a number of journeys if wanted. Nevertheless, 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 obtained me Oneworld Sapphire standing for over two years, let me provide some recommendation for those who’re contemplating this promotion: Learn and absolutely perceive the promotion’s phrases and circumstances earlier than you propose and e book your flights. One small misunderstanding or mistake may imply you spent some huge cash attempting to attain this promotion with out reaping the reward.