After flying Turkish Airlines TK6 from Chicago to Istanbul, and spending some time in the Turkish Airlines lounge, I was off to Manila on Turkish Airlines TK84. This was done on a 777-300ER as I’ve been on before for Turkish…

After flying Turkish Airlines TK6 from Chicago to Istanbul, and spending some time in the Turkish Airlines lounge, I was off to Manila on Turkish Airlines TK84. This was done on a 777-300ER as I’ve been on before for Turkish…
Per my SkyHops map, I’ve flown quite a few times. The pre-2011 stuff was largely done checking in my bags as well, I didn’t convert to a carry on until 2011 and working for IBM. I can only recall losing…
Continuing a decent string of Turkish Airlines Flight Reviews I’ve had lately, here’s a new one, and a first – going from my home airport of Chicago O’Hare ORD directly to IST. Well kind of directly, it was snowing out…
I flew on the Turkish Airlines TK868 Economy Class flight from Istanbul to Abu Dhabi. I flew economy on the 32B (the Turkish configured Airbus A321) – I ended up with seat 9C behind the exit row, for this 5…
I flew Turkish Airlines TK5 Business Class from Istanbul to Chicago on May 8th, 2016. No pictures and unfortunately a quick short stay at the airport – so I didn’t have too much time before this flight in the amazing…
Lounge Access With this ticket, access to Singapore, United, and Thai lounges was available. United and Thai were more conveniently located and the reviews on LoungeBuddy seemed similar enough to me; I ended up just passing the time in Thai’s…
This minty lemonade… pretty tasty stuff. So this started off rough – I went to the Taksim Havatas bus location and totally got on the wrong bus to start. Part of this was being advised to go and I suppose…
So the Turkish Airlines lounge is all sorts of amazing. It’s huge and has all sorts of stuff including food, food, food. Without a lounge, I usually eat little if anything at airports. Maybe some Starbucks. Maybe some little snackies…
Started off taking the bus to the metro station, where I took a train to the airport. Not the fast one but one of the slow ones (commuter trains) with a few stops. Good excuse to drain the rest of…