The reason I switched to TK is to maintain my *G status.
I previously held SQ *G for 2 years (2022-2024), thanks to on-ground status miles during COVID, but it would be very difficult to maintain the status.
I regularly fly using SQ and TG, but mostly on short/medium haul and definitely won't hit 50,000 miles per year.
To achieve 50,000 miles, it would take me USD 4,000 per year to fly SIN-JFK-SIN in PY 3 times.
Whereas, for TK, it would only take me around USD 2,000~2,250 to maintain the status for 2 years (CGK-IST-MCT-IST-CGK + CGK-IST-CGK).

Nevertheless, please chase the status according to your travel pattern and not for the sake of the status alone
Good luck.

I did a TK status match and I have to complete the TK international flight by March 31. I have an international J flight booked for April 2. Any chance they will extend the deadline?

Don't count on it.....no option but to do a very quick mileage run. For this reason, very important you plan the moment of the match/challenge.

Very stupid of me. I am based in NA so very difficult for me to do a mileage run since I am traveling the week after the deadline. Is there anyone I could get in touch with?

As stated in several last posts above, TK customer support is not very up to the task (ie. they fail to understand or answer several simple inquiries or repeatedly ask for documents that were previously sent).
Maybe due to language barrier? I don't know, but a few members in this forum said that it would be better if you can speak Turkish.
Based on the above-mentioned, I don't think you have a chance to extend/re-negotiate the deadline.
If you want to try, ask TK through their Customer Contact Form, which is the same form you use to request for a status match.

In another case, please analyze your travel pattern and condition.
If you often fly in Economy and if status is very important for you, do the mileage run by booking the cheapest TK Economy fare to IST before 31 March, that should be enough to extend the status for 8 months from 31 March.
But if you always fly in Business Class, status is not very important and you can always qualify for Miles & Smiles Elite by collecting 40,000 status miles.

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Congratulations on your status match
Now good luck finding cheap Economy or Business Class flights
What's the problem with Firefox?[/QUOTE]

Well I'm used to starting from wherever in Europe offers good value, so am flying FRA-IST-FRA next week to get me up to 12 months elite status and *A G. That cost around �540 in business class (and one leg is still showing as A330!)

I'm going to be booking a trip to central Asia later in the year, and there are various good value starting points for that. That will just get me over the line to 15,000 status miles and take me up to 24 months *A for around a further �1,300.

I need to check this, but it seems that if I can acquire a further 10,000 status miles in my first 12 months, thus achieving 25,000 status miles in my first year, I'll then get extended to 48 months. That looks like a trip from northern Europe to Dubai, for around �1200.

Firefox didn't seem to do anything at all when I pressed the Submit Feedback button. I tried a couple of times, without success, and then, given how flaky the whole process is, decided to switch to Chrome which worked fine.

This is my pain point with the "expiry date updates on the last day", since we could never be sure about the very latest expiry date.
By the time we reach the expiry date, and the status was not retained, it would be all too late.

In my case, I was matched on 1 Oct 2024, with an expiry date on 1 Feb 2025.
I flew using TK on Jan 2025 and accrued 15,926 miles.
According to the status match requirements, I am eligible for 8 months extension (international flight to IST) + 12 months extension (accrual of 15,000 miles), but the expiry date was still on 1 Feb 2025.
Only on 1 Feb 2025, the expiry date is updated to 1 Oct 2025, not 1 Oct 2026.
Only on 1 Oct 2025, the expiry date will be updated to 1 Oct 2026.

Both of us have the same logic that 25,000 miles accrual on the first year of status match will give us a 4-year Elite/*G status, but it will not be confirmed until the end of the second 12 months period, or until somebody in this forum confirm his/her 3rd year of elite status.
If the above is correct, in my case, I have to fly and accrue 9,074 miles before 1 Oct 2025.
But the 2 years extension until 1 Oct 2028 (again, if our logic is correct) will not be shown and confirmed until 1 Oct 2026.
I do wish TK system updates the very latest expiry dates as soon as the requirements are achieved.
There are conflicting reports about this "25,000 miles in the first year of status match" pre- and post-COVID, but I tend to stick on the latter logic.

Thanks for the info about Firefox.

Pretty sure the answer to this is a NO but can we use an award ticket to qualify for the one TK flight in the 4 month window?

100% no

I am stuck in a feedback loop for about a month now, which is just as everyone else has described, TK consistently asking for the same stuff over and over again.

Sending a statement with no ST flights in the last 2 months was a problem, as expected, but that's now resolved.

Where I'm stuck now is sending the front and the back of my physical FB card which.... I don't have.
FB have stopped issuing cards 5 years ago. I might have a gold one in a drawer somewhere from ages back. But it's all digital now. I've explained this to TK but they just parrot the same stuff back which is insufferable.

Has anyone mamaged to get past this hurdle?

Edit: for my latest attempt I have tried submitting a cropped screenshot of only the front of digital card, with a separate cropped screenshot of the back of digital card... will report back in case that was effective...

Maybe you can visit the TK office nearby and ask CS to send feedback on your behalf. My friend got matched a couple of hours after visiting the office here at Arlanda Airport this Tuesday. Good luck.

Success! Sending a separate screenshot per card face, as opposed to the entire digital card, did the trick and I was immediately granted status this time!!!

Can anyone confirm if this is true?

If I clock 1 TK flight in 4 months + 15k status miles on TK in year 1 + 10k *A miles in year 1, is my Elite status secure for 4 years from the status match date?

Based on the latest experiences from the users in this forum (2023-2025), yes, that is mostly the case.
Just keep in mind that TK can change the policy anytime they wish.
I'd suggest you to fly the 10k miles in TK metal, just to be very sure. If anything goes wrong (ie. miles was not credited or different ticket class), you will be at the mercy of the TK customer support.

Illustration:
1 Jan-30 Apr 2025 = 4 month status trial, need to fly 1 international TK flight to get 8 months status extension.
1 May-31 Dec 2025 = 8 months extension, need to collect a total of 15,000 miles (including miles from 1 Jan-30 Apr 2025) in TK flight to get 12 months of status extension.
Optional quest: Collect a total of 25,000 miles within 1 Jan-31 Dec 2025, retain the status until 31 Dec 2028.
1 Jan-31 Dec 2026 = This is considered the second year of your Elite status and if you fail to collect a total of 25,000 miles in 2025, you need to collect a total of 37,500 miles in 2026 (including miles in 2025) to retain the Elite status for another 2 years until 31 Dec 2028.

Didn't know there's a separate thread here on Turkish elite status match. There was a bit of confusion whether getting 25,000 status miles in first year of status match (including 15,000 status miles on TK metal) gets 4 years or the clock is reset in the second year. Did anyone have a recent experience, as someone got a different outcome recently this month?

When do I become full elite member after successful challenge?

(Apologies for cross posting, but just checking if this board has any recent experience)