Buy Status/Bonus Miles Online
Apr 20, 2012, 9:00 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 926
Buy Status/Bonus Miles Online
You can now buy status miles for extending your status or bonus miles for award redemption online. You'll see the option in your account menu.
Link to details for buying status miles:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr...u-koruyun.aspx (Currently only in Turkish)
Link to details for buying bonus miles for award redemption:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr...a-firsati.aspx (Currently only in Turkish)
Link to details for buying status miles:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr...u-koruyun.aspx (Currently only in Turkish)
Link to details for buying bonus miles for award redemption:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr...a-firsati.aspx (Currently only in Turkish)
Last edited by tcm; Apr 20, 2012 at 9:13 am Reason: typo
Apr 21, 2012, 7:14 am
#4
Join Date: Feb 2012
Programs: TK M&S, BAEC, EK
Posts: 257
You can now buy status miles for extending your status or bonus miles for award redemption online. You'll see the option in your account menu.
Link to details for buying status miles:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr...u-koruyun.aspx (Currently only in Turkish)
Link to details for buying bonus miles for award redemption:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr...a-firsati.aspx (Currently only in Turkish)
Link to details for buying status miles:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr...u-koruyun.aspx (Currently only in Turkish)
Link to details for buying bonus miles for award redemption:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr...a-firsati.aspx (Currently only in Turkish)
Apr 23, 2012, 2:18 pm
#5
fadynaime
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: LAX, SNA
Programs: TK Elite Miles&Smlies, Jet Blue, Platinum medallion, Marriott Gold
Posts: 550
I got an email on this from Turkish. I wanted to confirm. I'm on classic plus. and 3256 miles short from elite.
Is this mean I can buy 4k miles (at 25euros for ever 1k) and make it to elite.
On the site the buy miles option only lets me by bonus miles, but not status miles.
Is this mean I can buy 4k miles (at 25euros for ever 1k) and make it to elite.
On the site the buy miles option only lets me by bonus miles, but not status miles.
Apr 24, 2012, 12:01 pm
#6
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2006
Location: TUN
Programs: TK E+
Posts: 11,230
I got an email on this from Turkish. I wanted to confirm. I'm on classic plus. and 3256 miles short from elite.
Is this mean I can buy 4k miles (at 25euros for ever 1k) and make it to elite.
On the site the buy miles option only lets me by bonus miles, but not status miles.
Is this mean I can buy 4k miles (at 25euros for ever 1k) and make it to elite.
On the site the buy miles option only lets me by bonus miles, but not status miles.
Apr 25, 2012, 5:54 am
#8
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: ADD
Programs: TK MS E+/*G - AFKL FB G/ST E+ - LH MM - AB TB - BWR Diamond - HHo Gold - LCA Plat - Sixt Plat
Posts: 104
Apr 25, 2012, 11:14 am
#9
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2006
Location: TUN
Programs: TK E+
Posts: 11,230
Apr 25, 2012, 1:58 pm
#10
fadynaime
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: LAX, SNA
Programs: TK Elite Miles&Smlies, Jet Blue, Platinum medallion, Marriott Gold
Posts: 550
thank you or the reply, I just took a weekend flight from SNA-SFO and back. that was a total of 1k miles. so 2 more trips like that in the next 2 months and I'm set for elite.
Apr 26, 2012, 9:29 am
#11
Join Date: Feb 2012
Programs: TK M&S, BAEC, EK
Posts: 257
Sep 14, 2015, 9:01 pm
#12
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: DTW
Programs: TK E+, WY, Radisson R
Posts: 2,360
For our fellow M&S members in MI, LA, and SEA areas
I thought this is a heck of a deal from UA if you're based in Southern Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Washington, and SoCal.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premi...292usd-ow.html
If you're short of status miles a trip like this will save you some money along with racking up 8000+ bonus/status miles consider bonus mile is 3 cents USD and status mile is 7 cents USD at the moment. DTW-IAH-SEA is 8850, other routing through IAD and EWR will also yield over 8000 status/bonus miles.
Bonus miles alone are worth around $265.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premi...292usd-ow.html
If you're short of status miles a trip like this will save you some money along with racking up 8000+ bonus/status miles consider bonus mile is 3 cents USD and status mile is 7 cents USD at the moment. DTW-IAH-SEA is 8850, other routing through IAD and EWR will also yield over 8000 status/bonus miles.
Bonus miles alone are worth around $265.
Feb 5, 2016, 11:29 pm
#13
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: Marriott Platinum, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum
Posts: 3,710
Question about buying bonus (not status) miles. Both the rules and the actual tool say something like "you must have one registered flight in year one (either check-in or reservation)." I *think* what it's trying to say is that you must have one flight either flown in the last year or currently booked. Does anyone know how it works for sure? I don't meet either criteria so the tool doesn't allow me to buy miles, but I can book a flight if needed.
Feb 6, 2016, 12:34 am
#14
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Milano - Wuxi
Programs: TK M&S Elite+ - Marriott Rewards Gold - Hertz 5 Stars
Posts: 147
actually you can buy miles to improve your status as well, at least from elite to elite+.
last November my wife was elite and short 1200 miles to get elite+, so she bought the missing miles to get the upgraded status in 5 mins from the website. there is a specific section in the personal page after log-in.
it works pretty well.
the physical card is anyway delivered only after the first flight is taken as they don't send it automatically
last November my wife was elite and short 1200 miles to get elite+, so she bought the missing miles to get the upgraded status in 5 mins from the website. there is a specific section in the personal page after log-in.
it works pretty well.
the physical card is anyway delivered only after the first flight is taken as they don't send it automatically
Feb 6, 2016, 6:16 am
#15
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: ZRH / YUL
Programs: UA, TK, Starwood > Marriott, Hilton, Accor
Posts: 7,295
My understanding is that the system only looks at past flight accrual to determine eligibility, not any future booked flights (which could be cancelled again etc.).