In June, Turkish Airlines announced a highly interesting promotion: the Star Alliance member promised one million miles (worth roughly €6,000 to €10,000) to anyone who managed to fly with the airline to six continents. Not exactly an easy task within just four months, especially since the terms and conditions presented a few hurdles, and the promotion was even ended prematurely.
The travel period ended on October 27, with mileage credit promised between November 1 and 15. And contrary to some doubts, it has indeed happened. The first miles have now been credited to Miles&Smiles accounts.
Internally, Turkish Airlines appears to have numbered participants based on when they made their first ticket booking. The number, therefore, doesn’t indicate who completed the challenge first.
Figures on Flyertalk suggest that around 1,000 people successfully completed the challenge. A very similar result to last year’s SAS campaign, which had 940 winners.
In our team, two editors were crazy enough to take on the challenge. Peer split his across three separate trips, while Ditmar checked off all six continents in under three weeks. You can read our trip reports on our forum (sadly only in German):
Did you take part as well? If so, how was your experience? Feel free to leave a comment.
Cover Picture: Ditmar Lange
Comments (2)
My miles also arrived today and I’m Great Voyager #86. Obviously nothing to do with the name, the country, the date finished (mine was October 25) or even the date of the first ticket (which in my case was July 6, last ticket was booked just the night before the email for the sudden end of the campaign). What I really don’t understand is the complete marketing silence of Turkish Airlines.
All received 🙂