✈️ Save 30% on award flights from the U.S.

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Good morning and welcome back from the weekend, friends.

We’ve got a good award sale to tell you about, along with an exciting opportunity to learn from some smart points experts this week.

Let’s get into it:

• ✈️ Save 30% on award flights from the U.S.

• 💳 Join us for Transferable Points 101 this week

• 🏆 Win from the Daily Drop Lounge

• 😮‍💨 8 hours at SJO on airport WiFi…

✈️ Save 30% on award flights from the U.S.

Turkish Airlines has launched an award sale that makes it super duper cheap to get yourself halfway around the world.

Specifically, it’s a 30% discount on economy-class award flights from select cities in the U.S. and Mexico.

The list of cities is as follows:

• Atlanta

• Boston

• Denver

• Detroit

• Dallas

• New York and Newark

• Washington D.C.

• Houston

• Los Angeles

• Miami

• Chicago

• Seattle

• San Francisco

• Mexico City

• Cancun

Normally, it costs 40,000 Turkish miles to fly from those cities to Istanbul. With the discount, it drops to just 28,000 miles, which is pretty solid.

There is a catch:

You need to book your flights by May 22, and travel can only take place between October 1 and December 10, which is a pretty tight window.

Thankfully, availability seems to be really good:

To get this pricing, you need to book through Turkish Airlines using Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles.

You can easily get Turkish miles by transferring Capital One miles, ThankYou points, Bilt Rewards, or Rove Miles — all at a 1:1 ratio.

So if you recently racked up 75,000 miles from the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card, you could book yourself a round-trip to Istanbul with this sale and still have plenty of miles leftover.

Even if you don’t want to travel to Turkey, you could use this sale to get yourself to Istanbul and book a cheap cash flight to another country like Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia, or Georgia.

Here’s the bottom line:

This sale is pretty niche, but it’s a great deal to get yourself pretty far if you’re looking to book a trip to that part of the world later this year.

💳 Join us for Transferable Points 101 this week

Speaking of transferring points to airlines…

Later this week, on Wednesday, we’re hosting a live masterclass where we’ll cover ALL the things you need to know about transferable points.

The class will take place at 3:00 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 20.

You can register using the link below:

Whether you’re totally new to the idea of transferable points or just want a refresher, all are welcome.

And we’ll have a Q&A at the end if you have any burning questions about travel, points, the meaning of life — literally anything.

See you there. 😉

P.S. If you can’t make it live, we’ll send out a replay to all who registered 👊

🏆 Win from the Daily Drop Lounge

If you don’t know already, we have a Facebook group called the Daily Drop Lounge.

It’s a great place to hang out, learn from fellow travelers, and share your redemption wins.

For example, this lounge member just redeemed their points for a fancy-ass trip to Hong Kong in business class:

And for the record – please DO brag when you make an epic redemption like this one. 😉

Anyway, I assume this reader leveraged a recent transfer bonus to Flying Blue to get enough points for the booking.

It just goes to show why you should build up a stash of transferrable points and not be afraid to pull the trigger and transfer them when the stars align.

If you want to see more wins like this (or share your own), make sure you go join the Daily Drop Lounge:

That’s all for today, friends!

Have a happy rest of your Monday, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

Ciao,

6.9175° S, 107.6191° E

With contributions by McKay Moffitt