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Welcome to this thread where you could find detailed information about food onboard Turkish Airlines.
For information on the Turkish Airlines website please click here.
Meals are complimentary on all Turkish Airlines and AnadoluJet flights regardless of travel class and flight time.
Alcoholic beverages are complimentary as well, however, they are only loaded to selected flights.
Feel free to edit the WIKI if you want to add further information or if you think that it needs modification.
For information on the Turkish Airlines website please click here.
Meals are complimentary on all Turkish Airlines and AnadoluJet flights regardless of travel class and flight time.
Alcoholic beverages are complimentary as well, however, they are only loaded to selected flights.
Feel free to edit the WIKI if you want to add further information or if you think that it needs modification.
WIKI updated until post: 289
Domestic and Short Haul:
Business Class: 197
Economy Class: 236
AnadoluJet:
Medium Haul:
Business Class: 187, 196, 234, 266, 268, 282, 289
Economy Class: 305
AnadoluJet:
Long Haul:
The list for long haul flights would be made by the departure time and flight number.
Flights departing from IST and outstations are separated for your convenience.
Eg: 13:05 TK 9 Istanbul to Los Angeles - Business Class
Business Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
Eastbound flights departing an outstation
Economy Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
Eastbound flights departing an outstation
11:10 TK800 PTY-IST, Business, #269
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Before COVID-19
Domestic and Short Haul:
Business Class: 197
Economy Class: 236
AnadoluJet:
Medium Haul:
Business Class: 187, 196, 234, 266, 268, 282, 289
Economy Class: 305
AnadoluJet:
Long Haul:
The list for long haul flights would be made by the departure time and flight number.
Flights departing from IST and outstations are separated for your convenience.
Eg: 13:05 TK 9 Istanbul to Los Angeles - Business Class
Business Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
Eastbound flights departing an outstation
Economy Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
Eastbound flights departing an outstation
11:10 TK800 PTY-IST, Business, #269
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Before COVID-19
Meals are loaded on flights depending on the flight time and classified like this.
Domestic:
Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot light breakfast, a cheese & fruit plate in addition to butter and jam.
Flights later in the day would get a starter dish + a salad + a dessert
Economy Class: A cheese sandwich ( warm ) is served on all domestic flights
AnadoluJet flights: A cold sandwich or a pre-packaged cake is served on all flights
Short Haul up to 2 hours ( eg. Tel Aviv, Athens, Bucharest... )
Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot dish ( omelette, borek, gozleme ( Turkish style pastry ) ) alongside with a cheese & fruit plate, butter, jam, bread, and Danish pastries
Rest of the day flights would get a starter + a main dish ( chicken, lamb, köfte... ) + a salad + a dessert
Economy Class: A box containing a sandwich, a cake and a salad ( for morning flights: yoghurt ) would be served.
Medium Haul between 2 and 8 hours ( eg. Mumbai, Paris, Stockholm, London, Addis Ababa... )
Regardless of the flight time, these flights would get only one food service and no second meal or snack is served on Economy Class at all. On longer flights, drink runs are made by the cabin crew midway during the flight.
Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot dish ( 2 options would be present: generally one would be an egg dish and the other one a Turkish style breakfast dish ) alongside with a cheese & fruit plate, butter, jam, bread, and Danish pastries
Rest of the day flights would get a starter + a main dish ( 3 options would be present: generally a pasta dish, a meat dish, and a fish dish ) + a salad + a dessert.
Economy Class: A hot meal would be served with a salad and dessert. For morning flights instead of a salad and a dessert, yogurt and a cheese&olive plate would be present. Some flights may receive a brownie instead of yogurt.
LongHaul more than 8 hours ( List Below )
The destinations are: Atlanta, Bangkok, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Caracas, Chicago, Denpasar (Bali), Durban, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles Madagascar, Manila, Maputo, Mauritius, Miami, Montreal, Newark, New York, Panama, Phuket, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington DC, Xi'an.
Onboard both cabins, two main courses would be served on these flights according to the flight time. A snack basket would be available at the galley which would have sandwiches and cakes.
Flights departing between 04:00-10:30 would have a Breakfast + Lunch/Dinner
Flights departing between 10:30-04:00 would have Lunch/Dinner + Breakfast ( if arriving at morning ) / Lunch/Dinner ( if arriving later in the day )
Business Class: Depends on the route. You could find information about meals here. In addition, pre-ordering meals are also available for several flights, for more information please consider looking at the relevant thread by clicking here.
Economy Class: Depends on the route.
Below this line, you would be able to find example meals and photos of the offerings onboard.
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Domestic:
Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot light breakfast, a cheese & fruit plate in addition to butter and jam.
Flights later in the day would get a starter dish + a salad + a dessert
Economy Class: A cheese sandwich ( warm ) is served on all domestic flights
AnadoluJet flights: A cold sandwich or a pre-packaged cake is served on all flights
Short Haul up to 2 hours ( eg. Tel Aviv, Athens, Bucharest... )
Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot dish ( omelette, borek, gozleme ( Turkish style pastry ) ) alongside with a cheese & fruit plate, butter, jam, bread, and Danish pastries
Rest of the day flights would get a starter + a main dish ( chicken, lamb, köfte... ) + a salad + a dessert
Economy Class: A box containing a sandwich, a cake and a salad ( for morning flights: yoghurt ) would be served.
Medium Haul between 2 and 8 hours ( eg. Mumbai, Paris, Stockholm, London, Addis Ababa... )
Regardless of the flight time, these flights would get only one food service and no second meal or snack is served on Economy Class at all. On longer flights, drink runs are made by the cabin crew midway during the flight.
Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot dish ( 2 options would be present: generally one would be an egg dish and the other one a Turkish style breakfast dish ) alongside with a cheese & fruit plate, butter, jam, bread, and Danish pastries
Rest of the day flights would get a starter + a main dish ( 3 options would be present: generally a pasta dish, a meat dish, and a fish dish ) + a salad + a dessert.
Economy Class: A hot meal would be served with a salad and dessert. For morning flights instead of a salad and a dessert, yogurt and a cheese&olive plate would be present. Some flights may receive a brownie instead of yogurt.
LongHaul more than 8 hours ( List Below )
The destinations are: Atlanta, Bangkok, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Caracas, Chicago, Denpasar (Bali), Durban, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles Madagascar, Manila, Maputo, Mauritius, Miami, Montreal, Newark, New York, Panama, Phuket, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington DC, Xi'an.
Onboard both cabins, two main courses would be served on these flights according to the flight time. A snack basket would be available at the galley which would have sandwiches and cakes.
Flights departing between 04:00-10:30 would have a Breakfast + Lunch/Dinner
Flights departing between 10:30-04:00 would have Lunch/Dinner + Breakfast ( if arriving at morning ) / Lunch/Dinner ( if arriving later in the day )
Business Class: Depends on the route. You could find information about meals here. In addition, pre-ordering meals are also available for several flights, for more information please consider looking at the relevant thread by clicking here.
Economy Class: Depends on the route.
Below this line, you would be able to find example meals and photos of the offerings onboard.
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WIKI updated until post: 77
Domestic:
Breakfast - Business Class: 9
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 10
Economy: 4, 36
AnadoluJet:
Short Haul:
Breakfast - Business Class: 7, 17, 63
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 6, 16, 42, 60
Economy:
Medium Haul:
Breakfast - Business Class: 14, 29, 59
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 5, 15, 28, 44, 65
Breakfast - Economy: 2, 11, 53
Rest of the Day - Economy: 3, 8, 25, 52
Long Haul:
The list for long haul flights would be made by the departure time and flight number.
Flights departing from IST and outstations are separated for your convenience.
Eg: 13:05 TK 9 Istanbul to Los Angeles - Business Class
Business Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
13:05 TK79 IST-SFO, Business, #18, 30
Domestic:
Breakfast - Business Class: 9
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 10
Economy: 4, 36
AnadoluJet:
Short Haul:
Breakfast - Business Class: 7, 17, 63
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 6, 16, 42, 60
Economy:
Medium Haul:
Breakfast - Business Class: 14, 29, 59
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 5, 15, 28, 44, 65
Breakfast - Economy: 2, 11, 53
Rest of the Day - Economy: 3, 8, 25, 52
Long Haul:
The list for long haul flights would be made by the departure time and flight number.
Flights departing from IST and outstations are separated for your convenience.
Eg: 13:05 TK 9 Istanbul to Los Angeles - Business Class
Business Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
13:05 TK79 IST-SFO, Business, #18, 30
15:40 TK31 IST-ATL, Business, #71
Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
1:30 TK66 IST-DPS, Business, #35, 72 ( breakfast only )
Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
1:30 TK66 IST-DPS, Business, #35, 72 ( breakfast only )
2:00 TK70 IST-HKG, Business #74 ( main course only )
Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
21:00 TK67 DPS-IST, Business, #48
21:45 TK65 BKK-IST, Business, #38
21:55 TK25 TPE-IST, Business, #23
Eastbound flights departing an outstation
18:30 TK10 LAX-IST, Business, #19, 22, 32, 70
18:10 TK80 SFO-IST, Business, #27
23:05 TK36 YUL-IST, Business, #31, #75
Economy Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
Eastbound flights departing an outstation
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Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
21:00 TK67 DPS-IST, Business, #48
21:45 TK65 BKK-IST, Business, #38
21:55 TK25 TPE-IST, Business, #23
Eastbound flights departing an outstation
18:30 TK10 LAX-IST, Business, #19, 22, 32, 70
18:10 TK80 SFO-IST, Business, #27
23:05 TK36 YUL-IST, Business, #31, #75
Economy Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
Eastbound flights departing an outstation
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Turkish Airlines Catering Master Thread | Photos, Menus, Reviews ( 2019 onwards )
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#35
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TK 66 IST-DPS ( Business Class )
Departure Time: 1:30am
Long-Haul Dinner
The menu says "lamb cubes", but the chef explained that minced lamb was loaded. Not an issue and just as delicious.
Looks like this snack menu will be available on the 787 as a replacement for the snack bar.
Departure Time: 1:30am
Long-Haul Dinner
The menu says "lamb cubes", but the chef explained that minced lamb was loaded. Not an issue and just as delicious.
Looks like this snack menu will be available on the 787 as a replacement for the snack bar.
#36
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TK 2552 Istanbul to Dalaman ( Economy Class )
Departure Time: 05:40
Domestic Meal
WhiteCheeseSandwich
Departure Time: 05:40
Domestic Meal
WhiteCheeseSandwich
#37
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Posts: 1,657
First time in TK J (BKK-IST), was really looking forward to the food. Big disappointment. Second worst J food I've tried (after UA who set the standard in bad food).
Btw one of the choices was "potpourri of seafood" - those fishes lost their lives in vain.
What's going on? Wrong route?
Btw one of the choices was "potpourri of seafood" - those fishes lost their lives in vain.
What's going on? Wrong route?
#38
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 1,657
TK65 BKK-IST, Aug 5. To provide some context, here are the dishes (between two passengers):
No idea what it was but it tasted terrible. Middle item might have supposed to taste Thai, I think.
Appetizer - curiously same selectionas the main dish.
Undercooked mushy pasta.
Cream of pumpkin - could have been mushroom.
Potpourri - dry fish, soggy spinach. Potatoes were the only edible part.
Dry store-bought kind of baklava.
No idea what it was but it tasted terrible. Middle item might have supposed to taste Thai, I think.
Appetizer - curiously same selectionas the main dish.
Undercooked mushy pasta.
Cream of pumpkin - could have been mushroom.
Potpourri - dry fish, soggy spinach. Potatoes were the only edible part.
Dry store-bought kind of baklava.
#39
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Posts: 1,087
#40
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I just had the same appetizer on IST-TLV and it was way better - still not best airline food I've had, but pretty darn good. Will post a photo in a bit - it even looked different.
So does TK carry food from "home" on return flights or does it get it prepared locally? If the latter - I guess that would explain the terrible food quality of BKK. As an aside, TK lounge at BKK is a joke food-wise, the worst of all *A lounges both at BKK and pretty much anywhere else I've seen. They really should not have bothered.
So does TK carry food from "home" on return flights or does it get it prepared locally? If the latter - I guess that would explain the terrible food quality of BKK. As an aside, TK lounge at BKK is a joke food-wise, the worst of all *A lounges both at BKK and pretty much anywhere else I've seen. They really should not have bothered.
Last edited by tr3k; Aug 8, 2019 at 7:23 am
#43
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For flights 8 hours or longer it's the latter. For medium range, like 2-5 hours, it seems to be former, you can tell the food under tinfoil wrap with the label "dönüş". I believe this is to reduce turnaround time and also cost at outstations.
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#45
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Programs: TK E,*G, A-Club G
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I had 3 trips BKK-BRU so far and am not impressed by the food (the BRU-IST food is decent enough)
I flew QR for 5 years before switching to TK and found QR food to be excellent. QR has become too expensive...
Last BKK departure I visited BR lounge, excellent and best BKK shower sofar, did not have time to visit TK lounge (incoming flight got diverted to UTP!)
I am considering a real good meal at BKK Novotel between two flights after check in, plenty of time and simply sleeping all the way BKK-IST.
Found the breakfast omelette way to fluffy and I have 4h for breakfast at IST lounge, might pass the onboard breakfast also...
I flew QR for 5 years before switching to TK and found QR food to be excellent. QR has become too expensive...
Last BKK departure I visited BR lounge, excellent and best BKK shower sofar, did not have time to visit TK lounge (incoming flight got diverted to UTP!)
I am considering a real good meal at BKK Novotel between two flights after check in, plenty of time and simply sleeping all the way BKK-IST.
Found the breakfast omelette way to fluffy and I have 4h for breakfast at IST lounge, might pass the onboard breakfast also...