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One Day In Istanbul. TK SOF-IST-SOF

eco From Bulgaria, joined Nov 2010, 66 posts, RR: 4
Posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 5167 times:

B A C K G R O U N D

I was Turkish airlines adv. in Facebook offering flights for only 99 euros from Sofia and some other Balkan cities that are visa free for Turks. This was very good chance for one day trip to this amazing city. The main goal on this trip was to visit Basilica Cistern, to try new airline and buy some Dogus black tea from airport supermarket (last one is my tradition when I visit IST)

Sunday morning - SOF is empty.

Guest from Greece:

I expected Boing, but this also works for me:

25.03.2012
09:30 10:44 TK1028 SOF-IST
487 km
1:14 h
Airbus 319 TC-JLT
19F/Window

Load factor ~40% :

I can only say WOW after all the flight time is only 1 hour:

New addition to Bulgaria air's fleet - LZ-SOF:

You don't see such catering every day:

No visas for me so directly to:

Basilica Cistern:

Istanbul city of contrasts:

Back to the airport:

25.03.2012
20:30 21:30 TK1029 IST-SOF
Load factor: ~95 %
487 km
1:00 h
Airbus 319 TC-JLT
19F/Window

Same plane, same seat:

Specially for Markus:

Bye Bye Istanbul.

Dinner:

C O N C L S I O N
Turkish airlines are my personal number one carrier so far. Their planes are clean, FA are very professional, Safety demo is done by Manchester United stars, there are 8 music channels and catering is more than I ever expected. The only thing that I didn't like was the legroom on A319.

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Tomskii From Belgium, joined May 2011, 453 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 5112 times:

Haa good to see those places I've been to a few months ago!

(Like the cistern)

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Widebodyroga From United States of America, joined Sep 2008, 473 posts, RR: 4
Reply 2, posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 5112 times:

A great, albeit brief TR, eco. Good stuff. I'm flying this same route with TK later in the year so it was nice to see what to expect. They seem to be doing a great job, which is good to know.

Quoting eco (Thread starter):
Guest from Greece:

Nice to see A2 in SOF. Is SKG now connected with SOF or was this some kind of a random charter? I would love to see some regularly scheduled flights between the two cities, even though I'm not sure how viable it would be.

Quoting eco (Thread starter):
New addition to Bulgaria air's fleet - LZ-SOF:

It looks awfully cute in FB's paint scheme. I'm loving it.

Quoting eco (Thread starter):
You don't see such catering every day:

That's pretty awesome. Like the good old days in other carriers. It seems like the short duration of a flight makes no difference to TK. Thumbs up.

Thanks for sharing

WBodyroga

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MaverickM11 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 15733 posts, RR: 48
Reply 3, posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 5022 times:

Nice trip report. I'll be doing the reverse in August to check out SOF!

E pur si muove -Galileo

SloAir From Slovenia, joined Jul 2010, 336 posts, RR: 6
Reply 4, posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 4986 times:

Nice report eco, and thanks for telling me about this promotion. If I wouldn't have just been to Istanbul I would have probably used it

Quoting eco (Thread starter):
You don't see such catering every day:

Great job TK!

Quoting eco (Thread starter):
Basilica Cistern:

I went here during my stay last summer, it was nice to escape the heath outside.

Regards,
Blaž

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gabrielchew From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 2512 posts, RR: 13
Reply 5, posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 4598 times:

Nice report, thanks for posting. Looks like TK is able to offer some pretty good catering on such a short flight. Nice photos from Istanbul too.

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burj From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 838 posts, RR: 4
Reply 6, posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 4141 times:

I can't believe you got a meal in both direction! In the U.S. on most carriers even if you are first class you do not get a meal if the flight is under 2 hours. In fact in most cases if you are in first class on a red-eye from the west coast to east coast (around a 5 hour flight) you won't get a meal!

It concerns me that the load factor was so small....TK can't keep flying that route at 40% load factor!

eco From Bulgaria, joined Nov 2010, 66 posts, RR: 4
Reply 7, posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 4057 times:

Quoting Tomskii (Reply 1):
Haa good to see those places I've been to a few months ago! (Like the cistern)

Istanbul is amazing city. We are planing trip next year. I hope that TK will lunch another promotion or I will fly from SKP with Pegasus.

Quoting Widebodyroga (Reply 2):
It looks awfully cute in FB's paint scheme. I'm loving it.

I hope that I'll will fly on one of them in September.

Quoting MaverickM11 (Reply 3):
Nice trip report. I'll be doing the reverse in August to check out SOF!

Hope to see trip report about Bulgaria.

Quoting SloAir (Reply 4):
Nice report eco, and thanks for telling me about this promotion. If I wouldn't have just been to Istanbul I would have probably used it

Thank you. I am glad that you like it.

Quoting burj (Reply 6):

I can't believe you got a meal in both direction!

Me too. Its not usual, the only other carriers serving such meal are A3 and OA.

Quoting burj (Reply 6):
It concerns me that the load factor was so small....TK can't keep flying that route at 40% load factor!

It hard to make any conclusions from only one flight. I am sure TK know what they are doing.

kazim786 From UK - England, joined Apr 2011, 38 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (10 months 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 3956 times:

Great trip report mate, always love a bit of TK action

CaptainRed From Germany, joined Oct 2010, 578 posts, RR: 19
Reply 9, posted (10 months 2 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3787 times:

Hi eco,

nice little report here, thanks a lot. A trip to IST is coming up as well from my side (although not on TK, but on Austrian) so it was good to read about it. Looks like you had two very nice flights with Turkish, their service seems to be really top. Excellent meal for such a short flight.

CaptainRed

roberts87 From Netherlands, joined Dec 2011, 660 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (10 months 2 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3751 times:

Nice short report, thanks for sharing. TK service never stops to amaze me, extensive catering on such a short flight!

Quoting eco (Thread starter):
offering flights for only 99 euros from Sofia and some other Balkan cities that are visa free for Turks

Great deal!

eco From Bulgaria, joined Nov 2010, 66 posts, RR: 4
Reply 11, posted (10 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 3544 times:

Quoting kazim786 (Reply 8):
Great trip report mate, always love a bit of TK action

Quoting roberts87 (Reply 10):

Nice short report, thanks for sharing.

Quoting CaptainRed (Reply 9):
nice little report here, thanks a lot.

Thank you all for your comments.

Quoting CaptainRed (Reply 9):
A trip to IST is coming up as well from my side (although not on TK, but on Austrian)

Not bad choice either.

nethkt From Thailand, joined Apr 2001, 985 posts, RR: 3
Reply 12, posted (10 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 3534 times:

Short haul, Long haul, super-short, ultra-long, TK really doesn't disappointed you!
I love TK, hope to fly more of them

Many thanks for sharing this quick trip on TK!
net-hkt

Don't be annoyed knowing the passengers around you are non-revs and op-upgraders, be grateful for them. Life is beautifu

MSS658 From Belgium, joined Oct 2010, 2212 posts, RR: 14
Reply 13, posted (10 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 3254 times:

Hello eco

Nice mini TR! Thanks for sharing. TKs service looks good as usual.

Thanks for showing us around IST as well.

Greetings
Marc

Next trip report: b.transatlantic to the b.apple

adamspotter From Netherlands, joined Feb 2011, 784 posts, RR: 2
Reply 14, posted (10 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2955 times:

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Hi Eco,

Nice and short report, thanks for sharing! TK catering looks great for such a short flight, like your picutres of istanbul too

cheers,
Brendan // adamspotter

PlaneHunter From Germany, joined Mar 2006, 6191 posts, RR: 79
Reply 15, posted (10 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 2629 times:

Nice report, Eco!

TK is famous for its catering, hopefully it won't cut it anytime soon. Too bad you got the same plane twice.

PH

Nothing's worse than flying the same reg twice!

eco From Bulgaria, joined Nov 2010, 66 posts, RR: 4
Reply 16, posted (10 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2299 times:

Quoting nethkt (Reply 12):
I love TK, hope to fly more of them

Me too.

Quoting MSS658 (Reply 13):
Nice mini TR! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you.

Quoting adamspotter (Reply 14):
Nice and short report, thanks for sharing!

I am glad you like it.

Quoting PlaneHunter (Reply 15):

TK is famous for its catering, hopefully it won't cut it anytime soon.

I doubt that they will do such bad thing.

Coming soon:
SOF-OTP-SOF
SOF-HHN-PDV
SOF-BOJ-LGW-VRN-VIE-SOF

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