Turkish Miles&Smiles has been a popular program for travelers to Hawaii. Award space has been notoriously difficult to find, even when using tools like Seats.aero. Still, redeeming 7,500 Turkish miles (or more recently, 10,000 Turkish miles) to fly one-way on United Airlines between the continental U.S. and Hawaii has been an award travel bucket list item.
Well, the airline just threw cold water on this bucket-list item and all other domestic Turkish Miles&Smiles awards operated by partner airlines. As first reported by Loyalty Lobby, Turkish Airlines published and implemented new domestic award charts for its partners (including Star Alliance airlines like United) on Dec. 3 without any advance notice to its members. To make matters worse, domestic award flights to or from Hawaii now carry a separate price from other domestic flights.
Below is an overview of the Dec. 3 changes.
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