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Old Apr 15, 2016 | 5:14 am
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Originally Posted by RobOnLI
While TK is nice it's also the shortest long haul from PEK to Europe, leaving you with a longer "domestic" flight in Europe. Does that matter? Because the IST lounge will be the best of all of them, IMO.
TK takes a rather long southerly route via KZ avoiding RU (not so much for political reasons, but rather financial) so it takes 10-11 hours too.

4-8am is peak rush hour in the IST lounge, I'm afraid. Hence its not the usual quality everyone raves about.
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