Devaluation of TK Miles
Apr 22, 2017, 2:31 pm
#2
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: LAX
Programs: TK M&S, LH MM, Global Entry, Hertz Gold, Sixt Platinum
Posts: 1,087
I hope you're wrong. What were you charged for which route? This table still looks the same for the routings I'm familiar with:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/en-int/miles-and-smiles/awards/turkish-airlines-capacity-controlled-award-ticket-table
http://www.turkishairlines.com/en-int/miles-and-smiles/awards/turkish-airlines-capacity-controlled-award-ticket-table
Apr 23, 2017, 1:32 am
#3
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
Programs: BA Silver, TK E+, AA PP, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LT Plat, Hilton Diamond
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Specifics please. I also can't see any changes on the award chart.
Are you sure you didn't end up in the seat guaranteed awards, tried to pay your taxes with miles, or misplaced a departure / arrival airport from what you expected?
Are you sure you didn't end up in the seat guaranteed awards, tried to pay your taxes with miles, or misplaced a departure / arrival airport from what you expected?
Apr 23, 2017, 2:36 pm
#4
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Cyprus
Programs: LH SEN, A3*G, TK*G E+, ALL/Accor Plat
Posts: 644
For example, my recollection is that the mileage required to fly to the US and Far East from Europe 2 used to be 50k in Y and 80k in J rather than 60k and 90k. I refer to the figures on the old THY website.
Oct 29, 2022, 4:24 pm
#8
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: SoCal
Posts: 175
Has Turkish recently devalued their program, added saver/non-saver awards or something else? I was just looking at award flights and the costs are double what I’ve seen before, if not more. Previously I’ve booked business class RTs to Central Asia for 105,000 miles (even less when I hit upon a promo award period), but OWs are now showing up as 125,000, and that is what their award chart seems to show. Am I doing something wrong, because I’m not seeing any mention of a devaluation searching FlyerTalk, various travel blogs or online in general? Thanks in advance for any insights.
Oct 29, 2022, 5:22 pm
#9
Join Date: Jan 2011
Programs: oneworld, * Alliance, Marriott Bonvoy, HHonors, WoH
Posts: 2,120
Has Turkish recently devalued their program, added saver/non-saver awards or something else? I was just looking at award flights and the costs are double what I’ve seen before, if not more. Previously I’ve booked business class RTs to Central Asia for 105,000 miles (even less when I hit upon a promo award period), but OWs are now showing up as 125,000, and that is what their award chart seems to show. Am I doing something wrong, because I’m not seeing any mention of a devaluation searching FlyerTalk, various travel blogs or online in general? Thanks in advance for any insights.
Oct 30, 2022, 1:00 am
#10
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Denmark
Programs: TK Elite
Posts: 11,846
Has Turkish recently devalued their program, added saver/non-saver awards or something else? I was just looking at award flights and the costs are double what I’ve seen before, if not more. Previously I’ve booked business class RTs to Central Asia for 105,000 miles (even less when I hit upon a promo award period), but OWs are now showing up as 125,000, and that is what their award chart seems to show. Am I doing something wrong, because I’m not seeing any mention of a devaluation searching FlyerTalk, various travel blogs or online in general? Thanks in advance for any insights.
Nov 4, 2022, 5:02 am
#12
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Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
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It would not make sense for TK to open up saver availability when they are able to sell cash Business tickets for the same seats.
It was not a surprise for me but I would like to share this for reference, I was look at destinations to use my expiring miles to promotional award inventory to secondary destinations such as Valencia, Cluj, Vilnius, etc... is wide available while it's almost impossible to score these redemptions to Madrid, London, Paris, etc... unless you pick unfavorable departure times or dates very far in advance.
Nov 5, 2022, 9:07 pm
#13
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: DUB-BOS
Programs: various
Posts: 3,690
Europe to Asia for next summer is devoid of promo awards. Used to be that if you were flexible you could get something to work.
Hopefully this is temporary, and they will get back to pre-covid availability
Hopefully this is temporary, and they will get back to pre-covid availability
Nov 6, 2022, 4:24 am
#14
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I'm not surprised about that at all. Asia has been closed for a long time and the coming summer is really the first proper reason to visit Asia in general (I know a lot of countries are "open" but even Japan is not really open according some trip reports).