Turkish Airlines has published a new award chart that will go live on 2/16 and unfortunately it’s bad news with a massive devaluation (at least some notice was given). I won’t go into too much detail as I think that has been covered better on some other sites (see: here) but domestic US flights have gone from 7,500 points for economy to 10,000 and from 12,500 in business to 15,000 and Europe 1 to North America in business has gone from 45,000 miles to 89,000 miles.
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Only remaining uses of TK miles will be the once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence of United "I" space domestically
Will, you should talk about Alaska Airlines too. They will devalue in April @2 @will
Doesn't turkey have like 25% inflation? This is expected
25% annual? They wish LOL
It’s been crazy.
65% annual according to government bureau however everyone knows the numbers are fake and so much higher in reality.
Will this affect its point value with Aeroplan?
Very sad, because I have family in Turkey and fly there at least once a year. The program definitely had a lot of issues (TK customer service makes LM phone reps look like NH phone reps), but the 45k J rates to Europe were fantastic. Now that jumps up to 65k just for the North America - Turkey leg, going even higher if you're connecting.
TK transfers were my main reason for collecting TYP and Cap1 points, so in one fell swoop their value as transfer programs drops by a good amount.
now a useful Sky pesos tool to reposition around the USA!
7,500 to 10,000 isn't THAT bad of a deval, and it's still a good deal. But there are spots on the chart where the raise is astonishing. Flights from the US to other countries in North America are going up from 10,000 to a whopping 30,000 in one fell swoop- I don't think I've ever seen a program TRIPLE a redemption in one shot. And flights from the US to Middle East are almost doubling, from 32k to 58k. And of course flights to Europe are doubling are DoC mentioned. This is a huge deval of what is now one of the best programs out there. I'll still use it for domestic flights, but otherwise- RIP.
Before the devaluation, it is already very hard to book the ticket at the discounted miles.
Yeah it was hard to fenagle 4 seats in biz even 335+ days out
Still a good deal for the legs people use domestically (USA)