Originally Posted by
ark1g09
I bought the tickets without looking at the on time performance of the LHR-IST leg, which it turns out is pretty bad, with severe delays in 20 out of the last 90 flights, arriving at 02.20 when it is late.
I'm not sure about your statistical analysis - 20 of 90 flights arrived 95 minutes late, all twenty getting in at 02:20 rather than 00:45 ?
Connections from London are (normally) blessed with a clean arrival at IST . That means no security queue which is an enormous boost to your progress through the airport.
My experience of a similar missed connection at IST was an automatic offer of hotel stay with a switch to same flight next day, but they quickly settled on rerouting me on another carrier. Best if you have a sensible alternative worked out to present to them.