I believe Germanfflyer is correct. There is no CO at MUC nor in IST. If you deal with CO from there, it must be through the phone and it was discussed more than once that the phone agents are much less "empowered" than the airport agents.

I'm sure that if you go to the airport and ask to stand-by, they will let you on the plane even if it's not a T fare opening. Not sure if KLM would do that, but it might be a good idea to take the train to FRA or ZRH (about same distance) and deal with CO agents directly.

As far as CO and IST - they don't fly there, therefore they don't need any policy for the events that happened there.

(edited for syntax)

[This message has been edited by apirchik (edited Dec 03, 2003).]