Turkish Miles & Smiles is currently offering a 50% transfer bonus when transferring Citi Thank You points to Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles. Note that the maximum bonus is 50,000 miles and the bonus miles will not post immediately but rather after the promotion ends on June 15, 2024.
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The Deal
- Turkish Miles & Smiles is offering a 50% transfer bonus when you transfer Citi ThankYou points to Turkish Miles and Smiles from May 15, 2024 to June 15, 2024 up to a maximum of 50K bonus miles.
- Direct link to this deal
Key Terms
- Campaigns will be planned to be valid for a maximum of 1 month.
- Campaign will provide 50% additional Miles to Miles&Smiles members who convert their ThankYou® Points into Miles&Smiles Miles.
- Within the scope of the special offer, 50% additional Miles will be awarded to members. No additional Status Miles will be awarded.
- Miles&Smiles members can earn Extra Miles up to a maximum of 50,000 Miles.
- The Miles earned during the campaign will be credited after the campaign has ended.
- This offer is only valid to Miles&Smiles members. To benefit from the offer, non-members must first register to Miles&Smiles Program.
- This campaign cannot be combined with any other Turkish Airlines campaign.
Turkish Airlines reserves the right to take legal action against the related parties found to have contravened any rules. - Turkish Airlines reserves the right to change terms and conditions, definitions and other information pertaining to the special offer and to cancel the offer at any time.
- Full ThankYou® Points Transfer Terms & Conditions can be found on thankyou.com/transfer
Quick Thoughts
Turkish Miles & Smiles completely overhauled its award chart a few months ago, and it wasn’t pretty. Many (most?) awards became far more expensive under the new award chart.
However, some decent values have persisted. For instance, a one-way business class award between the US and Istanbul now costs 65K miles one way. With this transfer bonus, you’d only need to transfer 44K ThankYou points to book a one-way business class award. That’s a solid deal.
Unfortunately though, a single round trip business class award would almost hit the maximum number of bonus miles you can earn from the promotion, meaning that you can’t get enough bonus miles to fly a family of even three members to Instanbul at an average price of 44K per passenger since you’ll max out the bonus at 2.5 one-way tickets.
That said, this offer might be most exciting for those who would use their Turkish miles to fly domestically on United Airlines. That’s because Turkish offers one-way Star Alliance domestic redemptions, including from the mainland US to Alaska and Hawaii, for just 10,000 miles each way in economy class. In other words, just 7,000 Citi ThankYou points transferred to Turkish would give you more than enough points for a one-way domestic economy class award on United, even if it covered a span like New York or Boston to Honolulu as in this January 2025 example:
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A family of four could theoretically fly round trip to Hawaii for about 54K ThankYou points. That would be an amazing deal, except . . .
- United has been very stingy about releasing award space to partners, even when they have what they label as “saver” space available.
- The 50% bonus from a transfer to Turkish is only scheduled to post as at the end of the promotion window, which is June 15, 2024.
Those two factors could limit the utility of using this deal considerably. On the other hand, if you know and can accept the limitations, this could work out to be a great deal.
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