TK38 IST-JNB 2am departure.

We decided to give Turkish Airlines a go once again for our journey to SAR since AF KL charges horrendous amount. Not a fan of TK 350 with narrow seating as a side sleeper but like I said, I knew what I was going to get.

Food wise quality is extremely high and I enjoyed everything very much. But starting with first round of drinks and appetiser 1h 20m into the fairly short night flight is unacceptable. Finishing drink and having empty glass taken away without asking about refill seems to be standard as well as providing still & sparkling water with every dish is probably prohibited. What you wont beg for you wont get. The A350 forward galley is so small that basically crew works in the aisle next to first row. It is sadly terrible hard product (menu does not match, small galley so crew dont have space and it is noisy, narrow seats) combined with weak soft product provided by disorganised crew and lack of attention from them.




Oh and I did not bother waking up for breakfast. But crew seeing me 45 minutes before landing awake and not even asking if I want water, coffee, tea whatever...and when I asked for juice at least, I annoyed them and it is only to paper cup because we are landing shortly! Yes..in 45 minutes. Clearly shortly. Sadly is it repeatable experience.