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Old Apr 30, 2008 | 8:20 am
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Originally Posted by henry999
When I was working in the Gulf in the '90s, EgyptAir had a very attractive fare to London involving an overnight stop in Cairo. Many of my colleagues were tempted to try it -- once. They all came back with stories like yours. I never flew with them. My own two horror-airlines from those years, which I can't imagine are even now ready to join *A, are Turk Hava Yollari and Air India.

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Henry
I don't think that you can compare Turkish to Air India and Egypt Air. Granted, I have never flown the latter two, so I base this on reputation. Nearly everyone on this board reports the same horrid experiences with AI and MS.

TK, however, is certainly in the same class as the average *A carrier. It's probably better than JK or LO and no worse than LX or OS. It's hard to compare to a U.S. airline, but their mid-haul flights are in the same class as, say, UA. This has been discussed extensively on this board.
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