Originally Posted by segacs

I would suggest that maybe TK doesn't consider it a priority to stop you from having to come within elbow range of the people on their "low donkeys". Maybe they aren't enforcing the rules because they don't actually think you deserve to have them enforced.

As for the bus from the plane to the terminal, where in the rules does it say you're entitled to your own special bus? And yeah, maybe the staff IS "indifferent" to the fact that you have to survive a few minutes of time "crammed" on a bus with Y pax. Because they don't actually see that as that big a deal.

The Y pax in question have to survive being "crammed" on the bus... on the tiny seats on the plane... in the long security lines... and none of that actually compares to the frustration of having to deal with the whinging of people like you.

Of all the organizational and cultural problems at IST, the one that concerns me the least is their indifference to rules that create elitism and classism, which you seem to value, but perhaps they are more enlightened on the subject.

Or maybe it's just a happy accident.

Either way, IMHO, a respectable airline is one that treats ALL its passengers with respect, not just a select few arrogant, self-entitled jerks.

If this is the worst that happened to you, I humbly suggest that you have really nothing to complain about.