Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles-miles needed

[Cinali 8]

Hi

 

I have 38.000 miles and need 12.000 miles for free ticket to Los. Anyone that can transfer me some miles?

Please get in touch if you have miles that you dont need :)

 

Thx at advance

[Grandpollo 366]

Lots of people give away $300 worth of miles to people so this should be easy.

[MM 6,562]

Lots of people give away $300 worth of miles to people so this should be easy.

 

Where do you find the price per mile? Is there some exchange where they can be bought and sold?

 

From mobile phone.

 

 

[Cinali 8]

Buying miles from TK for a flight is useless. When ı want to buy 13.000 miles, ıt costs like 500 euro. But when someone transfers you miles, there s small fee

[MM 6,562]

Buying miles from TK for a flight is useless. When ı want to buy 13.000 miles, ıt costs like 500 euro. But when someone transfers you miles, there s small fee

 

Yes, of course. The question I asked was how much were the miles worth on the "market" that buys and sells miles. As I recall, there is (or used to be such a thing), and the miles were valued in pennies (USD) per mile.

 

For example, Grandpollo valued the 12000 miles at $0.025 per mile, which is rather reasonable...giving a value of $300 USD.

[Cinali 8]

Really never calculate that. I just tried to buy from Tk and saw that it is useless

[MM 6,562]

Really never calculate that. I just tried to buy from Tk and saw that it is useless

 

At 500 EUR for 13000 miles, they are valuing the miles at 5.5 cents (USD) per mile.

Back to grandpollo's post, the miles have value..from 2.5 cents to 5.5 cents each.

Giving you miles is like giving you money. Why would anyone who doesn't know you do that?

 

From mobile phone.

 

 

[CheshireTom 1,377]

At 500 EUR for 13000 miles, they are valuing the miles at 5.5 cents (USD) per mile.

Back to grandpollo's post, the miles have value..from 2.5 cents to 5.5 cents each.

Giving you miles is like giving you money. Why would anyone who doesn't know you do that?

 

From mobile phone.

 

I transferred a load of EVA miles to another BM a few years back - a change in the airlines' schedules made them inconvenient (coupled with the emergence of the middle east carriers at my local airport) so I figured it was a better option than them simply expiring. If I meet the BM some day, I'm sure he'll buy me a drink. This was before EVA joined Star ... obviously a slightly different scenario from the Turkish example (if they are an Alliance member).

Edited October 26, 2013 by CheshireTom

[Cinali 8]

At 500 EUR for 13000 miles, they are valuing the miles at 5.5 cents (USD) per mile.

Back to grandpollo's post, the miles have value..from 2.5 cents to 5.5 cents each.

Giving you miles is like giving you money. Why would anyone who doesn't know you do that?

All miles have expiry dates. U have to spend them till that date. They may have value but you can not cash them so I guess it may be better idea to give away then let it expire.

 

I transferred a load of EVA miles to another BM a few years back - a change in the airlines' schedules made them inconvenient (coupled with the emergence of the middle east carriers at my local airport) so I figured it was a better option than them simply expiring. If I meet the BM some day, I'm sure he'll buy me a drink. This was before EVA joined Star ... obviously a slightly different scenario from the Turkish example (if they are an Alliance member).

 

TK is Alliance member. I got some miles from Thai airlines when I flew Bkk-Taipei,

[timorno 30]

Transfering 12000 miles to your account would cost the helpful member 120€. So even in the rare case scenario that there is someone who has miles expiring next month I doubt he would do it.

[Grandpollo 366]

Where do you find the price per mile? Is there some exchange where they can be bought and sold?

 

From mobile phone.

They are worth around 2 1/2 cents a mile for a credit card company to buy from the airline so 12,000 is around $300.

 

You can't come up with a hard and fast rule because really the value is predicated on the redemption on an airline.

 

This is a problem you see in North America with "double miles" cards where they never quite say OK, now that you earned the miles here is what a short or long haul flight costs. Hey, what a surprise they are twice as many points on the twice as many point card.

 

Points. com will let people convert points from one airline program to another, usually at horrible rates.

 

There are also "brokers" but here is the risk: if the airline detects you are selling points to brokers, as evidenced by all sorts of flights being booked with those points for people all over the place, they will do two things:

 

Cancel the flights bought with the points, and suspend or terminate the account with the remainder of the points in the account.

 

They have very sophisticated algorithms to detect this type of fraud (they consider it fraud).

 

On AA, which is my airline, 12,000 points costs US$330, and over 15,000 for $412, you get a 4,000 miles bonus.And you can share by transfer to another account by paying a fee (the donor, not recipient).

 

I have nearly a million points so buying them serves no purpose.

[Grandpollo 366]

All miles have expiry dates. U have to spend them till that date. They may have value but you can not cash them so I guess it may be better idea to give away then let it expire.

 

 

TK is Alliance member. I got some miles from Thai airlines when I flew Bkk-Taipei,

 

Not all do. Air Canada cancelled theirs (expiry date). American constantly extends the expiry 18 months each time you have almost any kind of activity so unless you go to ground, they never expire either.

Edited October 28, 2013 by Grandpollo

[MM 6,562]

All miles have expiry dates. U have to spend them till that date. They may have value but you can not cash them so I guess it may be better idea to give away then let it expire.

 

 

TK is Alliance member. I got some miles from Thai airlines when I flew Bkk-Taipei,

 

Not all do. Air Canada cancelled theirs (expiry date). American constantly extends the expiry 18 months each time you have almost any kind of activity so unless you go to ground, they never expire either.

 

With United miles, I have a VISA card that awards miles for every dollar spent. As long as your miles account is active, the miles don't expire.

I maintain my miles account by making all my credit card purchases on that card.

 

Tapatalk

 

 

[ttk 236]

There are numerous ways besides flying and affiliated credit cards to keep points current.

Parking at the airport has kept my 600k of AS miles current for over 10 years

Shopping online (linked through the airlines site) keeps several airlines active ( UA, AS among others)

Dinning out also works at some restaurants if you register the cards

Hotel stays

Simply redeeming miles counts as activity and extends the date.

 

Basically, the only way to loose miles is to drop off the face of the earth or have the airline go tits up.

[Cinali 8]

Mileage Expiration List Expiration Date Subject to Expire 31.12.2013 9294 31.12.2016 28916

 

I dont use their credit card. So miles expire in every 3 years.

[Olsen 0]

Hi

 

I have 38.000 miles and need 12.000 miles for free ticket to Los. Anyone that can transfer me some miles?

Please get in touch if you have miles that you dont need :)

 

Thx at advance

 

Hi,

 

It's nice idea to buy a miles, I have using sellmyrewards.com to buy my credits. But, i am not sure whether they provide their service with Turkish Airlines. You can contact them to know whether they have turkish airline miles in their list.

 

 

[pisaruk 0]

I would transfer this amount of points to you as long as you pay me the fee charged due to it plus some value for the points as well.