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lounge?
Any idea what lounge BA is going to be using at the new airport?
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I have a flight on BA from Istanbul to LHR on April 8. Could anyone tell me if the previous security restrictions regarding tablets and laptops will apply at the new airport? I looked through the thread but didn't see any mention of it. Apologies if I overlooked it.
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Originally Posted by sorial
(Post 30957745)
I have a flight on BA from Istanbul to LHR on April 8. Could anyone tell me if the previous security restrictions regarding tablets and laptops will apply at the new airport? I looked through the thread but didn't see any mention of it. Apologies if I overlooked it.
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Mrs nwmgc now on the last-ever-BA-flight from Ataturk IST.
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Originally Posted by nwmgc
(Post 30964069)
Mrs nwmgc now on the last-ever-BA-flight from Ataturk IST.
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Originally Posted by chrisk84
(Post 30957470)
Any idea what lounge BA is going to be using at the new airport?
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Originally Posted by ajamieson
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I hope she kicked the door of the awful Millennium Lounge shut on her way out! |
Unfortunately it showed the contempt with which BA treated its IST customers over the years. As a reminder, for the first decade or so at IST, BA had its own lounge, then they cut costs and moved to the Millennium lounge, then to the better downstairs lounge and then cut costs again in recent years and then used the Millennium lounge again.
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The old airport was well served by train+tram into the city. I seem to remember reading sone time ago that transport to the new airport is very limited. Does anyone know what is happening? Trip planned for late May so hope sorted by then. |
Originally Posted by hfly
(Post 30968448)
Unfortunately it showed the contempt with which BA treated its IST customers over the years. As a reminder, for the first decade or so at IST, BA had its own lounge, then they cut costs and moved to the Millennium lounge, then to the better downstairs lounge and then cut costs again in recent years and then used the Millennium lounge again.
Originally Posted by rjhcambs
(Post 30968495)
The old airport was well served by train+tram into the city. I seem to remember reading sone time ago that transport to the new airport is very limited. Does anyone know what is happening? Trip planned for late May so hope sorted by then. In addition, I would like to add that due to the pressure of the taxi lobby. Late night bus services were cancelled at Atatürk Airport; followed by the cancellation of municipality buses that served 3-4 different areas of the city, and leaving the only option to a crowded metro line that serves some of the areas of Istanbul and a bus to Taksim that may take 2 hours because of traffic. |
The Millennium Lounge was in a great many ways not a great lounge but fortunately while the hand baggage restrictions were in place, one never had much time to actually use it.
On those fleeting visits, the wall at the rear of the lounge always fascinated me in a slightly comical way. I likened it to a dynamic art installation, thinking of Klein Dytham's imaginative Gallery Toto kenetic wall treatments at Haneda and Troika's "All the Time in the World" electroluminescent art wall at T5's lounge lobby. This particular wall had none of the technical sophistication or artistic merit of those purpose built examples, it was merely a translucent glass window that separated the lounge from the smoking room next door. Still, while modest, it was an interesting spectacle whenever the sun was shining. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...078dfbb5c9.png |
One time I was in there a family allowed their young child to kick a football against that wall repeatedly for about an hour. And it was still not the most irritating thing about being in there. By last month, virtually every power socket was broken and even the public toilets nearby had closed.
I only wish I'd have been on the final flight to swat the last flies out of the fresh food and take a ceremonial pee in the "meat soup" container. |
An open bottle of Bacardi, placed precariously on a carpet of scattered paper wifi slips... The perfect accelerant :)
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I predate you all. I make no exceptions. I’m an old BAag, but God help those who call me that. I remember the old airport in 1975. It was dreadful. Beyond dreadful it was dire. We were taken on holiday to Alanya and we spent a few nights in Istanbul. We then flew to Antalya. Frankly, looking back the whole experience felt like you were cheating death. People fighting over seats (TK both ways).and going on the tarmac to select your luggage so that it was put in the hold. They did this in London as well. Delays were chronic and constant. Not one flight left on time. That was then. I went back in 2010. Nothing prepared me for what I would find. I found a modern well functioning airport in a dynamic and progressive place. I have huge respect for the people who have brought this airport into being. There will be problems. Of course there will. For heavens sake will the new Berlin airport ever open? It will be less convenient as Narita is to Haneda at first as like many of these projects, it probably needs a year to bed in. I loved the old Ataturk. It had everything. This is in the middle of nowhere. For now. Let’s be generous and let this airport get going. I have very dear friends in Izmir who I want to visit. I’ll probably transit the airport to go there. |
Originally Posted by PUCCI GALORE
(Post 30969303)
I loved the old Ataturk. It had everything. This is in the middle of nowhere. For now. Let’s be generous and let this airport get going.
I have very dear friends in Izmir who I want to visit. I’ll probably transit the airport to go there.[/left] I'm not sad to wave good-bye to the domestic arrival area at IST though. The baggage hall smelled like a bunch of unclean loos for quite some time which bothered me rather immensely. What amused me recently was the huge new terminal at DLM, to/from which BA will shortly be operating (I hope they finish the works before the season starts). It's right next to the old one, which looked rather dwarfed by the big new terminal. |
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