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.