[Turkish Clarifies End Of Promo Timing] Fly Turkish Airlines To 6 Continents And Earn 1 Million Miles!

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Update, 7/8 at 2:50pm ET: Turkish Airlines’ Help Desk on X writes to us that you can still buy tickets until 4:59pm ET, which is 11:59pm in Turkey.

Update, 7/8 at 1:50pm ET: Turkish Airlines has sneakily updated its terms to end the ticketing period for the promotion today. Apparently, the promo was too successful?

While the title of the promo page now says that the promo has ended, the terms state that members who purchased at least one ticket by July 8th will retain promo eligibility. The new terms state that tickets purchased after July 8th won’t qualify, so it would seem that you should still be able to qualify for the promo by booking at least 1 Turkish Airlines flight through at least 11:59pm Istanbul time, which is 4:59pm ET today. However, the promo terms are left intentionally vague as they likely don’t want a rush of people purchasing tickets now…

It does seem that you can still purchase additional tickets after today as long as you buy one ticket by today, but who knows if Turkish will just alter the terms again?

If they were hoping to garner goodwill through this promotion, they have certainly failed at that.

You can plan travel or join a DDF member on a mileage run here.

Will you take advantage of this promo?

Originally posted on 6/30:

I’ve done some wacky things for miles over the years. I got hooked on the mileage hobby as an 18 year old in 2002 after booking my entire school discounted tickets from LA to NYC on my first credit card. A year later I racked up over a million miles on Cathay Pacific for free, thanks to the eBay Anything Points program.

In 2004, I earned 8 free systemwide tickets on American from a promo for flying twice between NYC and California or Florida. In 2005, I racked up decades of free United flights thanks to an AirTran promotion on Wendy’s cups. And in 2006, I flew on 14 flights in 36 hours to rack up over 100K AA miles and elite status. From 2008-2011, I racked up 7 figures of miles thanks to dollar coins.

In 2016, I even managed to convince my wife to bring along our kids on 2 roundabout JetBlue flights to rack up 300,000 points.

However, there seemed to be a drought of creative mileage deals until last year, when SAS switched from the Star Alliance to SkyTeam and offered a million miles for flying on 15 SkyTeam carriers. I’d have been all over that before I had kids, but priorities have changed over the years.

Last week, JetBlue announced a promo to earn 350K points and 25 years of Mosaic status (which comes with 15K bonus miles annually) for flying to 25 cities, which is also pretty awesome, though of limited use to me given JetBlue’s tiny presence in Cleveland.

And now, Turkish Airlines is joining the fun, offering a million miles for flying to 6 continents.

Turkish Airlines miles are extremely valuable for flying domestically on United, though United now throttles the award seats they make available to partner airlines. With 10K miles, you can fly anywhere in the US50 in coach, or with 15K miles, you can fly anywhere in the US50 in first class, if you can find the availability. You can read more on how to search for that space in this post.

Turkish Airlines miles also used to be lucrative for international flights as well, but that was massively devalued last year.

Turkish miles also expire on 12/31, just over 3 years after they are earned, regardless of activity. That will limit the usefulness of this promo for many.

Turkish Airlines used to be the largest foreign carrier in Tel Aviv, but hasn’t flown to Israel since October 7th. They have also seemingly made it impossible to use miles to fly to Israel. That in and of itself may be reason to avoid flying on them.

But all that being said, to earn the million miles, you’ll have to book and travel between 6/27/25-10/27/25.

You can travel one-way, round-trip, or with multi-city itineraries. Only arrival destinations count toward completing the required continents. Flights arriving in Turkey do not count for this promo.

• “New York–Istanbul–Tokyo counts only as Asia.
• New York–Istanbul–Tokyo–Istanbul–New York counts as both Asia and North America.
• New York–Istanbul–Tokyo–Istanbul–Cape Town completes Asia and Africa.”

5th Freedom flights, like Singapore–Melbourne or Sao Paulo–Buenos Aires are not eligible. Only flights that originate or connect in Istanbul will count. Only Turkish Airlines operated flights will count.

Unlike with the current JetBlue promo, award tickets are not valid for this promo.

The miles will be credited between 11/1-11/15.

You can see people’s sample itineraries or even join a group that is going to earn a million miles on this DDF thread. (Can someone invite Mayor Adams to join?)

You should be able to book flights to 6 continents for less than $4,000, and the million miles should be worth significantly more than that. If you have the time, this can be a fun way to rack up the miles.

But you’ll still have some work to do if you want to join me in the 7 continents club. 😀

HT: UKinNYS, via DDF