Win 1 million miles by flying Turkish Airways to six continents

We have seen a number of enjoyable promotions just lately for incomes a lot of miles and even typically elite standing after undertaking attention-grabbing challenges.

For instance, just a few 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 should you fly to 25 JetBlue locations. Now, Turkish Miles&Smiles is getting into the scene with its personal promotion.

The phrases and situations make it sound simple at face worth: Journey to 6 continents with Turkish Airways and win a million miles.

However the satan is within the particulars. So, this is a abstract of what you need to 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 by means of Istanbul
• Solely scheduled flights operated by Turkish Airways depend
• The international locations included in every continent are outlined in a chart on this web page
• Your frequent-flyer account for every flight should be set as Miles&Smiles earlier than journey (so you may’t get pleasure from advantages from one other Star Alliance standing after which credit score your flight to Turkish)
• Solely arrival locations depend 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, employees tickets and particular passenger section tickets (corresponding 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 by means of a licensed journey company or the Turkish Airways web site, cell app or gross sales places of work

Should you efficiently go to six continents as outlined by the foundations of this promotion, Turkish will deposit the miles into your account between Nov. 1 and 15.

That is plenty of flying to rack up a million miles (and doubtless much more alongside the best way). Nevertheless, as TPG bank card author Danyal Ahmed shortly famous, “On the saver stage, that is 15 one-way business-class tickets between North America and Istanbul.” So if you consider it in these phrases, you could possibly stroll away from this promo with plenty of doubtlessly priceless award journey as your prize.

I’m personally tempted by this promotion, particularly since I journey as a digital nomad and have plenty of open area in my journey schedule later this 12 months. Istanbul can also be considered one of my favourite cities, so I do not thoughts originating from the town for a number of journeys if wanted. Nevertheless, it will 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 would want to connect my Turkish Miles&Smiles quantity as an alternative 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 bought me Oneworld Sapphire standing for over two years, let me supply some recommendation should you’re contemplating this promotion: Learn and totally perceive the promotion’s phrases and situations earlier than you intend and e-book your flights. One small misunderstanding or mistake might imply you spent some huge cash attempting to realize this promotion with out reaping the reward.