Originally Posted by
f0zzyNUE
they have direct flights with technical stops in KUL and SIN. As long as you depart from IST (IST-MEL) and don't just book SIN-MEL you are fine.
Just realizing booking round trips is cheaper then one ways on Turkish. Only flown them once. Asiana Award J ticket from ORD-IST-Antalya during COVID.
My first stab came out to $7000 USD or so -- including some exit row upgrades, but now I can see it can be done for much less. Let's try one more time.