Palal

I see that in July IST-GRU is operated by 9W. How does that affect accrual on partners? It's this a wet lease a la United-Aer Lingus MAD-IAD a few years ago, or is this something different?

starflyergold

It's a wet lease operation, as with the previous wet lease from Jet normal TK mileage rules apply.

bcnfish

As TK won't be selling F, which passengers will get access to those seats?

I'm looking at IST-ICN which will be operated by 9W but we will be two people and the business pods make conversation quite difficult...

TGflyergirl

Yes. I just reserved 1K and 2K on a EZE-GRU-IST flight coming up. Of the 8, they initially block 2, 1A and 1D, the rest are free for assignment

bcnfish

Awesome. So if I book far in advance I should be able to reserve the two middle F seats eh? I've looked on expert flyer and it says that seat maps for TK can't be viewed until 100 days before departure. Would I still be able to call in and have those seats reserved for me? I would only want to book this flight if I can secure the 2 middle F.

iamaho

Seats can only be booked 100 days before departure, even if you call Turkish Airlines' office.

bcnfish

Ok thanks.

moeser

Could you please post back if you really got those seats.

TGflyergirl

Sure. For now, they're confirmed. Flight is in 90 something days from now though

Palal

So I guess they're still selling A-class economy comfort on this plane, but there won't actually be economy comfort?

TGflyergirl

Airlineroute.net has this switching to a 343 for a few months instead of the leased 77W's - didn't it have to make a stop in DKR due to range limitations or something back when 343's used to run it?

vivamuci

Ohh, you are right. TK even changed it in the system to A343. The tech stop was scheduled when the route was operated by an A332. The A343 can make it nonstop. That will be quite a nasty surprise for C pax.

IST ICN, the other 9W 77W route, switched to an A333. Looks like TK will not operate the 9W birds at all.

iamaho

http://airlineroute.net/2013/05/29/tk-jul13/

As per 29MAY13 Sabre timetable listing, Turkish Airlines plans to switch operational aircraft on a number of International route from 01JUL13 to 30SEP13/01OCT13. Planned changes as follow.

Istanbul – Bangkok – Ho Chi Minh 01JUL13 – 01OCT13 Boeing 777-300ER replaces A330-300/A340-300
TK068 IST0040 – 1415BKK1535 – 1705SGN 77W D
TK069 SGN2025 – 2150BKK2330 – 0535+1IST 77W D

Service operated by leased Jet Airways 777-300ER

Istanbul – Mumbai 01JUL13 – 30SEP13 Boeing 777-300ER replaces Airbus A330-300
TK720 IST1935 – 0430+1BOM 77W D
TK721 BOM0555 – 1015IST 77W D

TK721 operated by 777-300ER (leased Jet Airways aircraft) from 02JUL13 to 01OCT13)

Istanbul – Sao Paulo – Buenos Aires 01JUL13 – 30SEP13 Airbus A340-300 replaces Boeing 777-300ER (Planned service increase from 4 weekly to daily remains unchanged)
TK015 IST0930 – 1655GRU1830 – 2115EZE 343 D
TK016 EZE2240 – 0130+1GRU0305+1 – 2135+1IST 343 D

Istanbul – Seoul Incheon 01JUL13 – 01OCT13 Airbus A330-300 replaces Boeing 777-300ER
TK090 IST0045 – 1655ICN 333 D
TK091 ICN2350 – 0545+1IST 333 D

CAlex

Finally some changes that make a lot of sense:
- ICN route is not yet so strong to support a daily 777 service
- BKK and BOM are great destinations for the Jet 77W with 274 in economy and 30+8 in Business (8 in First, sold as business).

A great reason to try to fly to BKK in C this summer, the possibility of getting assigned in one of those 8 F seats...

Paul4Travel

hi!
has anyone some infos about the seats configuration on the aircrafts used by TK but leased by 9W (particularly the 77W)?
are these aircrafts with the same seats configuration (and type) as the others TK aircrafts?
I'm interested on Y and Y+ seats!

thanks