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Jul 8, 2012, 2:58 pm

#16

joorinainen

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Quote:

Originally Posted by starflyergold

Feel free to contribute and make the FAQ better.

I appreciate your effort of gathering information and i would like to make few remarks to simplify things a bit like tcm started above. With TK life is full of surprises and there seem to be few rogue birds flying around. NO FIRST CLASS THOUGH!

Business:

737/319/320/321(old): http://goo.gl/hTWWT or http://goo.gl/kqgNj
737-800s/737-900: http://goo.gl/hfC41
321(new): http://goo.gl/hfC41

330-200: Angled flat: http://goo.gl/9S4UD
340-300: Angled flat: http://goo.gl/9S4UD
330-300: Flat bed: http://goo.gl/PRf80
777-300: Flat bed: http://goo.gl/PRf80

Economy:

737/319/320/321(old): http://goo.gl/FtwzN
737-800s/737-900: http://goo.gl/8Ecae
321(new): http://goo.gl/M4DJ4

330-200: http://goo.gl/m5qVm
340-300: http://goo.gl/YGtPf
330-300: http://goo.gl/N9CqR
777-300: http://goo.gl/pKF6y

Comfort: http://goo.gl/WtQMZ

Last edited by joorinainen; Jul 8, 2012 at 3:19 pm

Jul 8, 2012, 3:04 pm

#17

starflyergold

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Thanks, incorporated them. ^

Jul 8, 2012, 3:18 pm

#18

joorinainen

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Originally Posted by starflyergold

Thanks, incorporated them. ^

I edited my post and the links. Please make the necessary adjustments

Jul 16, 2012, 5:45 am

#19

intuition

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The FAQ should perhaps contain a list of which routes that offers comfort class. (I was checking prices on a route where there used to be comfort class AFAIK, and got this error message)

Quote:

Comfort Cabin service is offered for BEIJING, HONG KONG, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK, SEOUL, SHANGHAI, TOKYO, SAO PAULO, TORONTO departures/arrivals.

Will probably change over time.

Jul 17, 2012, 11:49 am

#20

nacho

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About baggage - I have flown TK 2 times (2 more to come) and the last 2 times I have 30kg allowance for each pax. The route is CPH-IST-HKG

Jul 21, 2012, 2:40 pm

#21

povertyjetset

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TK interline baggage agreement with Egypt Air (MS)

Has anyone had any experience with transferring a bag between TK and MS in Istanbul Ataturk? I'm looking at a UA *A award ticket on the 2 airlines with a connection in IST. The UA agent didn't know and the first TK res. agent said she didn't have access to that info and I should call the TK ticketing center (are they actually functionally different?). So I followed the old adage that when you get info you don't like call back. The second TK res. agent seemed sure that the bag would get checked through as long as I asked at the initial check-in but I just want to check here to see if there are any horror stories, etc.

Cheers.

Jon

Jul 22, 2012, 2:54 am

#22

starflyergold

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Quote:

Originally Posted by povertyjetset

If your trip is booked on one ticket the bags can be checked through. If not your bags may be checked through.

Jul 22, 2012, 3:21 am

#23

povertyjetset

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Quote:

Originally Posted by starflyergold

If your trip is booked on one ticket the bags can be checked through. If not your bags may be checked through.

Thanks. Yes, same ticket would be booked through UA as *A economy award travel.

Last edited by povertyjetset; Jul 22, 2012 at 3:26 am

Jul 22, 2012, 3:54 am

#24

GlenP

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Quote:

Originally Posted by povertyjetset

As has been stated above and on the basis of my experiences on the MAN-IST-CAI, CAI-IST-MAN routes, on TK/MS metal, there should be no trouble with checking-in your luggage at the start of your trip and not having to worry about seeing it again until you reach your destination.

Naturally, this is dependent on the flights having been booked as a single ticket itinerary, and I'd confirm it with your initial check-in agent, and the same interlining of your bags should apply on the return flights (provided you're using MS & TK again).

Jul 22, 2012, 6:46 am

#25

povertyjetset

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Quote:

Originally Posted by GlenP

That's reassuring. No return flight as I'm going RTW to Ethiopia and Kenya after Egypt.

I did have another post about connection times/customs in CAI also on the same IST-CAI tix (actualy itin. is TLV-CAI via IST then CAI-Aswan):

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...l#post18977886

Jul 22, 2012, 8:11 am

#26

GlenP

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Quote:

Originally Posted by povertyjetset

Sorry, I thought I'd responded to that question earlier today; obviously it didn't post wwith the broadband issues I'm experiencing today

I'll repost my response in the approriate forum; just to keep things neat for the mods.

Jul 22, 2012, 5:48 pm

#27

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Baggage Transfer on Different Record Locators

We are traveling on TK from JNB-IST-FRA in Y then transferring to UA in F from FRA-IAD. Can TK check the bags all the way through if they are on two separate record locators? (Had to use two different mileage accounts for the trip). Thanks

Jul 23, 2012, 2:35 am

#28

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Harveynics

Yes you can, as long as the 2 airlines are partners. I have done that with TK and SQ and it worked. All you need to do is to give the first bag drop (check-in) people your UA PNR (reservation code), and they will look for your UA flight, then they will issue the tags all the way to IAD.

If you happened to buy things and your luggage allowance is not used up at FRA, you can even add bags at FRA (I have done that before too) - but then you need to find the UA check-in, not TK.

Jul 23, 2012, 4:57 am

#29

starflyergold

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Quote:

Originally Posted by nacho

Yes you can, as long as the 2 airlines are partners.

Not always, some airlines (even fellow Star Alliance members) refuse to interline if the connection is not on one PNR (for example bmi categorically refused to interline). However in most cases it should be possible.