Originally Posted by
longhall
If I fly Turkish from Istanbul to Toronto, and then transfer on the same ticket to Air Canada to Montreal (IST-YYZ is TK17 and YYZ-YUL is AC432) will the TK landing in Toronto count as a North America stop? Or will the final destination on the PNR of Montreal with Air Canada make this count as NOT a TK North America destination?
Ts&Cs say:
"Only arrival destinations will be considered for campaign completion. Departure points and transit stops will not count toward completion"
and
"The promotion is valid only on scheduled flights operated by Turkish Airlines. Codeshare flights and flights operated by Star Alliance partner airlines are not eligible"
Arrival destination is North America and Flight from IST is TK metal, but there is a transit stop followed by *A partner.
There's long been confusion about a distinction between transit and transfer. A transit would cover TKs stop at GRU on its way to Santiago: same aircraft, same flight number. A transfer would involve a change of flight number/aircraft.
Inclusion of transit stops in the challenge would be a great help in securing a TK Asia destination on the way to Oz, or a South America one the way to North America. So excluding transits from the game is sensible .... viewed from the airline's perspective.
However what you plan in Canada involves a transfer, it's not a transit. Quite whether TK-logic would recognise that is a separate question. You would put yourself in a more secure position by engineering a stopover at Toronto, or paying the relatively small premium for an IST YYZ ticket.
It's a simple challenge and for something put together by TK, the rules are pretty straightforward. Matching the challenge will be expensive: tweaking the rules to save small amounts runs the risk of failure. Even where the risk is small it's better to avoid it by playing to a narrow interpretation of the rules.