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-Earn 5 points per dollar on the AMEX Platinum Card or 3 points per dollar on airfare with the AMEX Premier Rewards Gold Card or the AMEX Business Gold Rewards Card.
-Earn 3 points per dollar and get $300 in airfare automatically refunded every calendar year with Chase Sapphire Reserve®.
–Bookable on Orbitz. Orbitz tickets are refundable until 11pm EST tomorrow.
–Bookable on Priceline. Tickets purchased from Priceline today are refundable until 11:29pm EST tomorrow. Please see this post for directions on how to cancel these tickets.
-Bookable on Turkish Airlines.
Prices will vary between booking sites.
Round-trip companion sale fares to Tel Aviv:
Atlanta: $679 coach, $2,061 business
Boston: $585 coach, $1,691 business
Chicago: $580 coach, $2,321 business
Houston: $615 coach, $2,450 business
JFK: $585 coach, $1,626 business
Los Angeles: $605 coach, $1,800 business
Miami: $605 coach, $2,242 business
San Francisco: $605 coach $2,450 business
Washington DC: $601 coach, $2,225 business
Companion sale rules:
-Book 2 or more passengers on Turkish Airlines by 2/14/17 for sale prices.
-Valid for flights from United States only.
-Outbound travel valid between 2/7/17-2/20/17
-The minimum stay varies by market from 3-7 nights.
-The maximum stay is 14 nights.
-Valid for Economy Class and Business Class.
-Coach passengers can check 2×50 pound bags and business passengers can check 2×70 pound bags.
Turkish is a very highly rated airline. Thousands of religious Jews have taken their flights without issues and report that service has been far superior to other airlines. Turkish has an award winning Star Alliance lounge in Istanbul. They operate a whopping 9 flights a day between Istanbul and Tel Aviv.
Turkish offers freshly made kosher meals in all classes and they are highly regarded as well. They are made in Turkey and are kosher supervised by the OK.
These fares are not on sale with miles, but you can pay for the ticket with “hybrid points” if you have AMEX or Chase points and a Business Platinum or Sapphire Reserve card.
Using AMEX points:
If you have The Enhanced Business Platinum Card® from American Express OPEN you can get a 50% rebate on the airline of your choice in coach and on all airlines in business/first class.
The 50% rebate will go back into your account the day after redeeming points.
You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.
A $1,626.18 business class flight will be 162,618 points and you would get a 50% rebate making the effective cost just 81,309 points, a value of 2 cents per point:
Using Chase points:
If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve® card you can redeem points for 1.5 cents each towards travel.
A $585.18 coach flight will be 39,012 points. That includes all taxes and you still earn miles for flying!
You can login to your account and redeem Chase points for travel here.
A $1,626.18 business class flight will be 108,412 points. That includes all taxes and you still earn miles for flying!
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18 Comments On "Turkish Airlines Companion Sale; JFK To Tel Aviv For $585 (Or 39K Hybrid Points) In Coach Or $1,626 (Or 81K Hybrid Points) In Business Class"
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Thanks, Dan. How do you get the companion fare price? It’s not popping up on Turkish’s site.
@David:
What route and dates?
@Dan: JFK to TLV, 3 passengers; I selected Feb 7 – 17th. I didn’t fill in all my passport info (maybe it displays afterward?), but it did show me the $585/ticket.
@David Leshaw:
$585 is the companion fare price.
Gotcha — thanks.
@David:
Just note that if you might want to cancel by tomorrow night you should book on Priceline or Orbitz.
Does Turkish have these sales often? I plan on going later in the year and was wondering if it was worth waiting.
If you book with Chase or AMEX do you also have 24 hours to cancel?
I tried from tomorow and nothing showed up why?
@Chaim brach: because its not valid for tomorrow. only for feb 7-20
Safe to send women alone with Turkish?
The paragraph above says that the Sapphire Reserve offers 100k points signup bonus, but when I click through your links it shows 50k. Which is it now?
I see the problem….it links through to the Prefered, but not to the Reserve.
but is it safe?
@chana k:
Same question; can I cancel within 24hrs if booked through chase?
I was very uncomfortable in Istanbul Business class lounge. I was getting looks from middle eastern dark skinned people. I wouldn’t recommend walking around in that airport looking like a religions jew. The regular lounge/gate where TLV headed people waited had extra guards. I’m not sure it’s worth the cheaper price. I’m serious about this
Anybody (especially Dan) have a comment about the temperature on Turkish Airlines flights? I’ve seen reports here and there that they like to keep the cabin temperature stifling (1st world problems I know) at 75 degrees. That sounds really annoying especially for sleeping.
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