Originally Posted by henry999
I imagine they must be (officially) a non-smoking airline by now but, Turks being Turks (among the heaviest smokers in the world), I wonder if it is really enforced. I remember when they had to start offering a 'non-smoking section'. Instead of putting smokers in the last few rows in the back, like everyone else, THY had smoking on one side of the aisle and non-smoking on the other, all the way from the front of the plane to the back. (This is not a joke.)
I can better that with something that happened to me about 10 years ago flying from LHR-IST. I asked for a non-smoking seat at check in and was given one. After the sign went off the guy next to me lit up. He shrugged when I said something and took no notice. I finally asked the crew to do something, they did and returned with a no smoking sign that they placed on my seat and explained that the others were smoking seats but that I couldn't smoke in mine!
These days they're OK, long haul C is fine - better than a US carrier and as good as some other European carriers, shorthaul is better than a lot of the European choices and I haven't seen smoking on TK for quite a few years now. I'd be delighted if they joined *A.