I apologise, I wasn't quite clear: I'm flying on a long-haul 787-9 (which has the IATA code 789), not on flight TK789. Any thoughts on 1A vs 2A on the 787-9 regarding footwell size vs. privacy?

No need to apologize as it was my fast reading that short circuited and ignored the fact the TK789 is usually served by 777.
The answer is more of a personal taste. For more comfortable sleep, I would go with 1A or if you don’t mind not having a window 1E or 1F (you will not be bothered by your neighbor or the aisle).

Data point:
Two award tickets with different PNR. One passenger with TK Elite, the other with no status.
Tickets booked December 2021 directly with TK sales office.
Checked in exactly 24 hours in advance. Most seats were available for selection, almost nothing was selected/occupied at this early stage of check in.

Passenger with no status - TK automatically assigned seats and cannot change without paying additional fee.
Passenger with TK Elite - Free to choose any seat except for Emergency Exit Rows and Bassinet row.

Typing this from aboard a TK 787-9, in seat 2A. As someone who values privacy greatly, I can confirm that I would personally rather have the slightly less private 1A in exchange for the larger footwell and extra at-seat storage next to the window. Just wanted to report back in case anyone else is in the same boat as me. 🙂

Oops! 😬

The first thing that you are missing is the you are on the wrong forum. This is the TK forum, please repost on the QR one.

Scheduled to fly J on a A330-300 with 7 rows of 2-2-2 configured seats - not sure if there are different configurations.

Are there are misaligned window seats to be aware of on the A333?

Business class award ticket booked via UA. Aircraft changed to 77W (from 787) and now I'm not able to make seat selections (auto assigned middle and aisle..) Is this a known issue during aircraft swap? The message I'm receiving says I have to wait until check in to select seats..

Update: Found another thread mentioning it needs to be selected through the app. Bolded/underlined it on the Wiki as I missed it the first three times..

I was able to snag 1E/F on the 787 bulkhead on an upcoming SFO-IST flight. Not sure if they are usually blocked, but it seemed like it was to me until I checked at the right time. Looking forward to see how the larger footwell helps.

My AMS - IST flight has been changed from an A330-300 to an A330-200.

On turkishairlines.com the Business Class cabin is only showing as three rows of seats 2 x 2 x 2 for a total of 18 seats.

I cannot find any corresponding configuration on seatguru. Can anyone advise? Thx

I am a long time TK flyer, but I just recently booked my first economy flight. Itinerary is CAI-IST-ATH. I am an ElitePlus member of Miles&Smiles. The flights are in Oct, so 2.5 months from now. When I try to choose my seats, it asks for a charge. Is this normal, even if I am an ElitePlus member?

Not any Y seat selection benefit for E or E+ members on TK.

Incorrect, TK Elite and Elite Plus members get free standard seating ( except bulkhead and exit-row ) despite the fare they book on TK flights.
However, everyone needs to pay for seating on AnadoluJet flights.

My bad, I did not check the updates, as I remember at the beginning of this thread elites were complaining about no benefit in this respect.

Seat Selection Nightmare
 

I'm a long time TK flyer and have seen just about every issue imaginable, but this one is at a different level. We have an upcoming BOS-IST-BOS travel as a family of 4. We paid extra for the seats to make sure we sat together. When i checked the online reservation randomly it showed different seats than what we selected (not together) including the seat "10C' which doesn't exist on these flights. I made about 5 calls at this point. I was eventually hung up by 3 of them (I was being perfectly polite). The other 2 gave me differing answers, both eventually saying that they didn't see any confirmed seats and that I had to pay again.

I had already sent in the infamous "feedback form" - there has been no response. I don't know if this is some kind of a scam to have gullible customers pay multiple times for seat selections, but it sure feels that way. It's infuriating - since we paid extra so that our children don't scattered across the plane, but it sure looks like we are headed in that direction. When will TK fix its customer service? It's just unbelievable...