Turkish Miles&Smiles devalues award costs to Hawaii

Dec. 04, 2025

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Turkish Miles&Smiles devalues award costs to Hawaii by 150%, bumps different home awards up by 50%

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Turkish Miles&Smiles has been a well-liked program for vacationers to Hawaii. Award area has been notoriously troublesome to search out, even when utilizing instruments like Seats.aero. Nonetheless, redeeming 7,500 Turkish miles (or extra lately, 10,000 Turkish miles) to fly one-way on United Airways between the continental U.S. and Hawaii has been an award journey bucket checklist merchandise.

Effectively, the airline simply threw chilly water on this bucket-list merchandise and all different home Turkish Miles&Smiles awards operated by associate airways. As first reported by Loyalty Foyer, Turkish Airways printed and applied new home award charts for its companions (together with Star Alliance airways like United) on Dec. 3 with none advance discover to its members. To make issues worse, home award flights to or from Hawaii now carry a separate worth from different home flights.

Beneath is an outline of the Dec. 3 adjustments.

	One-way direct flights throughout the U.S. with associate airways to/from Hawaii	Different one-way direct flights with associate airways in the identical nation
	25,000 (beforehand 10,000)	15,000 (beforehand 10,000)
	40,000 (beforehand 15,000)	22,500 (beforehand 15,000)
	50,000 (beforehand 20,000)	30,000 (beforehand 20,000)

These will increase for award flights between the continental U.S. and Hawaii imply reserving via one other program will virtually at all times make sense. That is very true since these awards usually are not at the moment bookable via Turkish Miles&Smiles. In spite of everything, I have not discovered any bookable award flights between the continental U.S. and Hawaii in the previous few days, and Seats.aero at the moment reveals no Turkish awards between North American locations.

Nonetheless, you might discover situations the place redeeming 15,000 miles for a one-way direct flight inside a rustic might make sense. This could be a transcontinental United or Air Canada award, or maybe a Thai Airways flight inside Thailand.

Lastly, it is price noting that Turkish’s region-to-region associate award charts and the award charts for Turkish-operated awards have remained intact. Particularly after Turkish lately awarded thousands and thousands of miles to those that accomplished its six continents problem, many believed a devaluation would occur. Hopefully, the home award will increase are the extent of the Miles&Smiles devaluations for now.

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