I'm about to pull the trigger on Award flights to Europe this summer. The return goes through IST and uses TK IST to BOS. I've heard great things about the TK J product but I see constant and numerous complaints across the board about TK keeping their cabins extremely hot. This could be a deal breaker for us. The idea of sitting in a hot cabin, even in J seats, for eleven hours does not appeal to us. I also hear that the cabin staff is not cooperative with requests to cool down the cabin a bit.

It would be somewhat helpful to have individual overhead air vents but most wide bodies do not have these. Are there any TK planes that have individual air vents at J seats?

We tend to "dress up" a bit for J seat travel but... we may show up in shorts and t-shirts for the TK flight... if we book it at all.

I've put the question to a friend of mine, an American who is a lead/check pilot for TK. I haven't heard back from him yet.