I opened Turkish Airlines' Miles & Smiles PDF — fourteen pages — and froze. Three different earning tables. A separate one for Star Alliance partners. Sub-tariff bonuses, per-class minimums, fixed domestic miles. All laid out in dense tables that fall apart on a phone.
I figured: there must be a tool that packs all this onto one screen. Looked — there wasn't. Turkish Airlines' own calculator returns a single total, no split between status and award. And that's the main fork: chasing status, you only care about the first; saving for a business ticket, only the second. Asked frequent-flyer forums — some people track miles by hand in Notion, others on paper.
So I started building it myself.
My name is Vitaliy. I'm a serial entrepreneur, and before that an analyst at one of the largest oil & gas companies in the world. I live in Cyprus now and fly Turkish Airlines often. I learned the Miles and Smiles system from the inside — not by choice, but because there was no other way to build the calculator.
Inside that system, almost every detail is opaque. The same fare class earns different miles depending on the sub-tariff. On Star Alliance partners the same letters work differently. Inside Turkey miles are fixed regardless of price. Only people who've spent hours with PDFs or forums know any of this.
I needed a calculator that:
- shows status miles and award miles separately
- computes the return on each euro of ticket price
- lets you compare different sub-tariffs on the same route
I couldn't find that tool. So I decided to build it — and put it out free for anyone who needs it.
foxs is a calculator, a catalog of 44 verified routes, and a series of guides on the Turkish Airlines Miles and Smiles system. Free. No ads. No hidden partnerships.
If you fly Turkish Airlines and want to squeeze the maximum out of miles — take a look. And write me what's off — I'll read every reply personally.
— Vitaliy