Get a 40% transfer bonus when you transfer Citi ThankYou to Turkish Miles&Smiles.

Two salient notes: 1) This bonus is sponsored by Turkish, not Citi, and has a maximum of 50,000 Bonus Miles. 2) The terms state the bonus miles won’t appear until after the promotion ends which is the end of August. So while it’s true that a saver award from the US to Turkey on Turkish metal would only be around 47,000 Citi ThankYou points for 65,000 Turkish, it doesn’t quite work that way unless you can wait until early September to book and acknowledge there might not be any inventory. (Note that alert service Thrifty Traveler did flag a ton of 65,000 mile saver inventory just 3 days ago.)

One strategy could be to wait until Aug 31 to transfer (make sure you are subscribed to our free alerts that can be set to notify you two days before the offer ends).

Remember that Turkish miles “hard expire” after 3 years, so speculative transfers are strongly not advised. And they have devalued hard in the last couple of years. Where you used to be able to fly business class to Hawaii for 7,500 miles, the domestic chart now looks like this:

Contiguous US & Alaska Domestic Awards

• Economy Class: 15,000 miles
• Business Class: 22,500 miles

Hawaii Domestic Awards (From US Mainland)

• Economy Class: 25,000 miles
• Business Class: 40,000 miles