Originally Posted by
susiesan
With the cutbacks and decline in quality on TK, if you had to choose for a J award to JRO from the US between TK and ET, which would you go for? The times of the TK flights into and out of JRO are awful for pax from America via IST, arrive 1:00am depart 3:00am. ET flight arrives 1:00pm departs 5:35pm.
I've flown J on TK (early 2016) and ET (early 2017). Their seats were more or less the same. On the long-haul legs TK provided turndown service, extra mattress and better bedding, so that is a plus for TK. Can't comment on the current food situation on TK, but back then it was excellent.
I enjoyed ET quite a lot, but ADD ground experience is not the smoothest (business and gold track is really slow sometimes) And their lounges are inferior to Turkish IST-lounge of course.
I'd choose TK I guess, but if their connections are horrible ET is not a bad choice.