Raised price to buy miles without prior announcement
Sep 21, 2015, 8:06 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: IST
Programs: TK E+ | HHD | Marriott TE LTG | etc.
Posts: 286
Raised price to buy miles without prior announcement
Sep 21, 2015, 8:57 am
#2
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: DTW
Programs: TK E+, WY, Radisson R
Posts: 2,360
TK has shifted many transactions from Euro to USD to keep them healthy financially, but just doing it without any annoucnement? Pretty sneaky.
If you live in the US (or around Vancouver and Southern Ontario areas) it might even be cheaper to fly in J (UA calls it Domestic First) between certain city pairs. I just booked DTW - IAH - SEA in A
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premi...292usd-ow.html
If I buy those miles from TK it will be almost $1000 USD. Instead I am paying $585 plus taking a trip to Seattle to get almost 9000 bonus and status miles.
If you live in the US (or around Vancouver and Southern Ontario areas) it might even be cheaper to fly in J (UA calls it Domestic First) between certain city pairs. I just booked DTW - IAH - SEA in A
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premi...292usd-ow.html
If I buy those miles from TK it will be almost $1000 USD. Instead I am paying $585 plus taking a trip to Seattle to get almost 9000 bonus and status miles.
Last edited by vincewy; Sep 21, 2015 at 10:35 am
Sep 21, 2015, 9:43 am
#3
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: IST
Programs: TK E+ | HHD | Marriott TE LTG | etc.
Posts: 286
I have M&S Credit Card. If I purchase some bonus miles from my bank account the cost is 40 Turkish Lira for 1,000 miles which is almost USD 13.
I'm seriously planning to buy 100K miles for future use just in case before they change the T&C after this "devaluation."
I'm seriously planning to buy 100K miles for future use just in case before they change the T&C after this "devaluation."
Sep 21, 2015, 9:45 am
#4
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: GYD
Programs: Azerbaijan Airlines Gold, Turkish Miles and Smiles, IHG Plat
Posts: 663
Yes, they did on the quiet, didn't they. Very sneaky.