Dec. 04, 2025
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Turkish Miles&Smiles devalues award costs to Hawaii by 150%, bumps different home awards up by 50%
Turkish Miles&Smiles has been a well-liked program for vacationers to Hawaii. Award house has been notoriously troublesome to seek out, even when utilizing instruments like Seats.aero. Nonetheless, redeeming 7,500 Turkish miles (or extra just lately, 10,000 Turkish miles) to fly one-way on United Airways between the continental U.S. and Hawaii has been an award journey bucket listing merchandise.
Properly, the airline simply threw chilly water on this bucket-list merchandise and all different home Turkish Miles&Smiles awards operated by associate airways. As first reported by Loyalty Foyer, Turkish Airways printed and carried out new home award charts for its companions (together with Star Alliance airways like United) on Dec. 3 with none advance discover to its members. To make issues worse, home award flights to or from Hawaii now carry a separate worth from different home flights.
Under is an outline of the Dec. 3 modifications.
| One-way direct flights throughout the U.S. with associate airways to/from Hawaii | Different one-way direct flights with associate airways in the identical nation | |
|---|---|---|
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25,000 (beforehand 10,000) |
15,000 (beforehand 10,000) |
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40,000 (beforehand 15,000) |
22,500 (beforehand 15,000) |
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50,000 (beforehand 20,000) |
30,000 (beforehand 20,000) |
These will increase for award flights between the continental U.S. and Hawaii imply reserving by means of one other program will nearly all the time make sense. That is very true since these awards will not be at the moment bookable by means of Turkish Miles&Smiles. In any case, I have never discovered any bookable award flights between the continental U.S. and Hawaii in the previous few days, and Seats.aero at the moment exhibits no Turkish awards between North American locations.
Nonetheless, it’s possible you’ll discover cases the place redeeming 15,000 miles for a one-way direct flight inside a rustic might make sense. This could be a transcontinental United or Air Canada award, or maybe a Thai Airways flight inside Thailand.
Lastly, it is value noting that Turkish’s region-to-region associate award charts and the award charts for Turkish-operated awards have remained intact. Particularly after Turkish just lately awarded hundreds of thousands of miles to those that accomplished its six continents problem, many believed a devaluation would occur. Hopefully, the home award will increase are the extent of the Miles&Smiles devaluations for now.
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