Review of Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Ankara in Economy

Hi there,

welcome to this Turkish Airlines flight review from Istanbul to Ankara. Check out the first report here to see TK's new 737 MAX 8 and the full routing description.

After four great days in Istanbul, we decided to take a day trip to the capital city of Turkey, Ankara.
Flight is scheduled at 8:00 in the morning, so we took a cab from Istanbul to the Airport. It took about 30 minutes at this time, and we arrived at 6:30 at IST.

This new airport is huge and modern.

A lot going on at this early hour here.

TK has a dedicated terminal for the CIP passengers (Business and status) but we went on the regular way and through the normal Check-in desks.

Here's the nice black Boarding Pass:

Security was done in no time, no need to get anything out of your luggage and absolutely no queues there. Love it!

We then took a stroll through the airport to find the lounge:

The lounge is decent with enough seating options for everyone:

The lounge isn't that great when it comes to food or beverages with only water, coffee and tea available.

I went with a coffee and a few pastries.

My best friend was a bit hungrier and went with a bagel.

Boarding was called at 7:25 and we'll board a bus directly from the lounge.

A nice Business Class bus is waiting for us:

It's fitted with leather seats, a very nice touch for such a small ride ^^

Less than 5 minutes after, we can board our 737-900ER, TC-JYL, 8 years old at that time.

Seat pitch is not great, as always on TK I think. 

IFE is less modern than on the MAX but still a very good thing to have on a short flight.

And here's my mistake: we got a few aircraft changes and I got moved to 9A instead of 8A during the process. I forgot to check again if my seat was OK and of course I end up with this… Shame on me!

Anyway cabin is ready and we pushed back a few minuted behind schedule at 8:04.

Safety video was shown and done in Turkish and English.

45 minutes of flight time today to reach Ankara.

The crew quickly began serving us some breakfast:

A hot tomato-mozzarella sandwich was served along with a choice of coffee/tea or OJ.

A very nice and rare safety card to collect :)

We quickly began our approach into ESB.

Landing took place at 9:00 and we reached our parking spot at 9:03. 3 minutes late, that's more than OK!

As soon as we reached our parking spot everyone just jumped out of their seats…

We disembarked smoothly and here's a look of the Business Class.

Let's head out to Ankara!

A nice airport, looks a bit oversized but it's clean and smooth.

We then took the bus to the city, cost us 25 TL each, 0.80€.

Hope you enjoyed reading,
See you in the next one.
Jules