Contact Turkish Airlines: Find below customer service details of Turkish Airlines, including phone and address. You can reach the below contacts for new flight booking, cancellation, refund, baggage claim, deals or other queries.
Office Address:
Turkish Airlines
General Management Building,
Ataturk Airport, Yesilkoy 34149
Istanbul Turkey
Support:
Phone: +90 212 444 0 849 (booking)
Phone: +90 212 463 63 63 (headquarters)
Phone: 080005 01565 (US)
Phone: 0844 800 6666 (UK)
Email: [email protected]
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About Turkish Airlines
Air travel has become very popular and the preferred means of travel and what better example of this than the national airlines of Turkey, Turkish Airlines. Touted as the largest carrier of passengers worldwide, it has services to 304 destinations in Europe, Americas, Asia and Africa. In service since 1933 with a handful of aircrafts, it now has a fleet of over 300 aircraft. One of the only airlines with its own seat design and manufacture unit, Turkish Seats Industries ergonomically designs seats to improve customer comfort. Turkish Airlines has a quality goal to elevate passenger experience to new heights. Right from the time you book your ticket, checking in, cabin experience – every minute detail is designed to show the passenger how valued and cared for he is.
Turkish Airlines’ flights are operated from its hubs at Ankara, Istanbul, Istanbul-Ataturk, and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen. New fliers can search and book flights on the website. You can club your flight reservation with a travel insurance or hotel. Explore the Route Map and Schedule to know the destinations to where Turkish Airlines operates flights. The major destinations include Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ukraine, UAE, UK and US. The domestic destinations span Adana, Alanya, Ankara, Antalya, Bingol, Bodrum, Dalaman, Denizli, Edremit, Erzincan, Hakkari, Istanbul, Izmir, Kars, Konya, Malatya, Samsun, Siirt, Sivas, Tokat, and Van. Deal hunters will find incredible deals under the Promotions section. Tickets can be purchased online using all major credit cards. The cancellation and refund policies vary according to the ticket type. Existing ticket holders can skip the airport queues and check-in online or via mobile with ticket number and surname.
Inflight entertainment is taken to the next level with an extravagant choice of the latest films, TV shows, documentaries, current affairs programs, music and many programmes to keep the young travelers entertained and engaged. Turkish Airlines is also WiFi enabled and passengers can connect seamlessly with the outside world for business or pleasure. Inflight reading is provided by Skylife magazine published every month with enticing travel stories and exotic destinations.
You could opt between Business Class which allows you to take two pieces of luggage each weighing not more than 30 Kg and Economy Class which allows two pieces of luggage not weighing more than 20 Kgs each. The maximum weight of any single piece of baggage on all flights is 32 kg. Free baggage allowance may vary depending on reservation class and route. Cabin baggage allowances are different. The details along with the excess baggage tariffs and restricted items are published on the website. Business Class passengers can use the Lounge Istanbul and enjoy all the services it offers at the airport and on layovers. You could also browse through the books in the library, read international newspapers and offer prayers.
With the Miles&Smiles frequent flier programme of the Turkish Airlines, you could collect miles that you could redeem to buy tickets or use your miles to upgrade to a better class. Use the Miles you earn on the Miles&Smiles program to upgrade, and enjoy flying in Business Class. You can also reap the benefits of last-minute upgrades. Miles&Smiles has four tiers – Classic, Classic Plus, Elite and Elite Plus. The miles earned and and the benefits vary for each. Miles can be earned on flight booking, car rental, shipping and hotel rental. Members also enjoy priority reservation, special meal preferences, cabin upgrade and special promotions.
Flying Turkish Airlines gives passengers a chance to partake a gastronomic experience in the skies. Global cuisine coupled with Turkish delicacies are prepared by their food providers, Flying Chefs, making it a truly memorable experience. For more information or queries on reservation, refund, cancellation, lost baggage, frequent flier program, career, or others, reach the Turkish Airlines support.
On December 6th myself and my colleague travelled from BHX to IST, a regular business route for me, on arrival we were told our luggage did not make the flight so we proceeded to obtain an PIR form. We were told our luggage would arrive the next day and be sent to our hotel and they would call to confirm. So the next day came, no luggage and no call so we had to purchase some clothes etc as we were in Turkey for 5 days. On December 9th whilst in Izmir we found out our luggage had been sent to Frankfurt and then on to Istanbul and was now being sent back to BHX in the UK for us to collect on our return which we did late on December 10th. On December 22nd i sent all the receipts, copies of flight tickets, PIR forms etc as required, as of January 2nd i heard nothing so chased them only to be told they wanted to know if we had got our luggage back and if so when, so i reconfirmed this , resent the receipts etc., over the last few days after various messages back and forth (as they wont give me a name and a number) they are saying the claim is too late as over the 21 days and conveniently no record of the forms submitted on December 22nd, all this despite them issuing the PIR on the day. I honestly cannot believe their attitude. In a nutshell, Turkish Airlines dont give a damn about customers, all they want is your money, should be ashamed of themselves.
Please avoid Turkish Airlines at all cost even if they may be offering one of the cheapest fare!
I had a flight with them from Kuala Lumpur, MYS to Marseille, FR on 25th June 2021, holding a laissez-passer issued by the French Embassy, authorised to leave Malaysia and enter France under the travel restrictions due to Covid-19, while checking in with them at the airport, they denied my boarding because they have never seen a laissez-passer before nor have this in their system, they did not contact the French authority to confirm the validity of my document, instead they took photo of all my documents and sent them over via WhatsApp, according to them, to their airline operation team in Marseille airport, and they said I am not permitted to enter France with a laissez-passer, hence denied my boarding and cancelled my reservation. Thanks to them I missed my own marriage registration and had to rearrange everything!
A week later, I am in France, flew with Qatar and entered France without any hassles! I then contacted them via email (as instructed by their ground staff in email for refund), no response for more than 2 weeks until I sent another follow up email to them, in one day they responded and say they are not the right office to manage my query. ????? In the meantime I filed a feedback on their website, providing all details and proof, waited longer than their promised timeline for the below response:
// Firstly, it is the passenger’s responsibility to fulfill such conditions of travel determined by the countries of travel as visas, passports, customs, quarantines, and vaccines.For this reason, our passengers should, before their flight, contact the consulate of the destination country and request detailed information.
With the intention of easing the entry of our passengers who are traveling to different countries via our flights to their destination countries, our company performs document checks prior to flight.
Furthermore, for our passengers to travel with inadequate documentation is cause for penalties to Turkish Airlines, too; and for this reason, passengers who are found to be missing documents during documentation control can be prevented from flying.
In our investigation, we determined that as you were found not to have necessary documents during checking before the TK 61 Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul flight on 25th of June, 2021 you were not admitted on board the aircraft. //
I responded again, which mean another unending wait, asking for an explanation on why I am now in France with the exact documents I presented to them if I was not permitted to enter France in the first place! I should not bear the consequences and loss because I did not do anything less and it was purely their ignorance! They even just say that their airline has their own regulations when I asked why their info can be so misaligned with the official announcement by the destination country.
We will see what they respond but I do not have hope on them. Worst airlines and worst way to deal with their own faults.
Can Turkish not just write what the luggage allowance is BEFORE you buy your ticket? I am trying for two hours now to contact anyone, the emails they list bounce back, the phone numbers ‘do not exist’, etc. It seems they are not willing to talk to the customer
I have booked the a round-trip ticket but just one day later I received a message about some change in that. Now I have three problems regarding this booking:
First, now when I log-in my profile and go to the My Flights page, I can’t figure out what has happened to the initial booking because the first part of the trip has been cancelled but surprisingly, the second part of it is gone! In addition, the first part of the return trip is cancelled but the second part of it is not cancelled!
The second problem is that, I get some errors when I try to change the booking (both via website and the mobile app).
Finally, I decided to try the refunding and buying a new one, but again surprisingly, I noticed that just 42,700 Miles will be charged into my account for refund, whereas buying exactly the same round-trip ticket will cost 55,000 Miles + 1.696 SEK! Therefore, I changed my mind about refunding too.
At the end, I should say fuck the corrupt regime of Iran that has caused all these challenges in our lives for doing just some simple stuff.
I agree with all of the comments I have read, I only wish that I had seen these comments before I booked flights with Turkish Airlines. My round trip business class flights BKK-IST-YUL have been cancelled. I am directed to call customer care ( what a joke) call center which only has recorded messages in Turkish. After many many attempts I have given up. Emails to TA are answered with same bull every time…”telephone the call centre”. I believe that Turkish Airlines will do nothing to refund my money…so my message…think very carefully about doing business with this company as you may end up with nothing but a hole in your wallet where your money once was.
Terrible customer service. On their website they heavily advertise layovers in Istanbul so flying with two other people I thought a short layover would be nice. I wanted to ensure that our main luggage is booked through to our final destination eliminating the need to collect and rebook at IST as it was only a 27 hour layover. So I rang Customer Services to clarify. First the automated answer service is abysmal however when I got through to a real person it was worse. The lady was totally uninterested simply read out the 24 hour rule and said we will need to collect our luggage at IST and then rebook. I told her that flying from Birmingham UK I have a choice to fly with many airlines including Emirates and Qatar and both of them have a sensible 48 rule allowing reasonable stopovers that benefit their local economy. She simply said that I should book with other airlines and ended the call…WTF?
Turkish wake up and smell the onions…
I had been trying for two days to book a flight online filling out all my details along with my credit card etc, when you push to purchase the ticket a small timer /clock appears then you get a large white blank square with nothing to say your ticket has been purchased. My husband tried from his computer but the same thing kept happening.
We called several times the Turkish airline office in Bangkok (Silom road) but no answer at all. This was a very frustrating situation so I took a taxi and went to there office today to purchase my ticket and tell the lady what has happened but she really didn’t care.. her reply to me saying why do you not answer your phone calls…her reply was “we are only two people in this office and we are busy. No sorry no nothing. Its bad customer service… they need to sought this out asap. Ive been travelling with Turkish for a long time now and have never had this problem before. Sort out out your customer service and get your staff to answer the phone. You need to have an email address not phone numbers to call which can cost a lot of money.
Wort airlines and rude customer service . They don’t give enough information and correct information. Once you book with them they don’t care to solve the issues . Instead they forced us to pay unnecessary charges . They never response apart from public social media and never allow to speak to manager or supervisor, I have not yet flown don’t know how many more surprises. Regretting that why I have booked with this Airlines .
Your customer service is the worst of all Arlines I have worked with. I was given an EMD over prolonged delays and mistreatment with your airline but the Kigali sales department has been behaving exactly the as the Istanbul ground customer care unit during my travel, with total contempt. It’s a shame!!
Still waiting on Turkish Airlines to respond to my compensation claim on an awful flight back from Dakar to Saudi Arabia. The flight had more than a 6 hour delay. According to their own passenger bill of rights, with such delay passengers can request a full refund of their ticket or at least 600 euros. They only provide you with a reference number and then you don’t hear from them… Weighting getting a lawyer involved…
Turkish Airlines is also known to play with cancelling flights or delayed flights that are not full, thus messing up your route and flight schedule…
Awful! If anyone was successful in getting their compensation claim answered please let me know how you did it!
Dear Turkish airlines,
I took a flight from Delhi to Istanbul on 22.6.19 TK4651 and I wish to convey my absolute displeasure.
1. The flight is booked as Turkish but operated by Indi-Go a cheap airline of India. The 9 hour flight was without any entertainment system, no pillows, no blankets etc. This is not an international standard and my company did not book the tickets for this.
2. The flight offered on two times snacks (no meal in 9 hours) and drinks just twice which are also non alcoholic. This is also no internal standard.
3. I did not get any miles booked for this flight. When I reclaimed in the Miles and Mores program, it says passenger name not found .
Please reply and let me know your action about the miles.
I
A few weeks ago I took Turkish Airlines from Miami to Pakistan via Istanbul. The flight crews are very friendly and polite and the jets seemed to be new but the seating in economy class were so bad that I will never take Turkish Airlines again unless they make the seats bigger and more comfortable.
I haven’t even flown yet and already this airline is the WORST!!! Website didn’t work so I called customer service to book my flight. They want to charge $100 extra for calling them! Asked to speak to a supervisor and they said “NO” !!??? Have you ever heard of that with any airline? I called back three times and EVERY single “customer service” rep flat out refused to let me speak to a supervisor! Each one was SO was nasty I couldn’t believe it. One even said, “Well if our website doesn’t work then you should choose another airline on which to fly!”. Hard to believe.
Customer service was so rude and vulgar. I was traveling from northern Cyprus which is a touristic place so supposedly customer service should be at least representative and handle conversation! I had an accident on the way to the airport and i arrived before the departure 30 minutes and the name of the flight number was showing on the banner the guy didnt want me to check in and he asked me to go to Turkish airlines customer service i went there and clarified my issue the lady who was there was so rude to me i told her i tried calling airline’s airport office no one replied, i asked her to try to book me another flight that goes to my first destination and i will take the other plane from there she literally left the office.
I want to tell you one story about our flight with our cat by Turkish Airlines and operator vivamare.com.ua from Kyiv (Ukraine) – Winnipeg(Canada) transit through Istanbul and Toronto. vivamare.com.ua claimed that Turkish Airlines has been named Best Airlines in Europe, but let’s discuss this in more detail.
On 10 March 2019, we began to choose suitable airlines for our flight. Most important for us was: appropriate departure date(the end of May), additional baggage(+23kg for person), comfortable cabin, plus 4 hours during a connection in Toronto and foremost was the possibility of transporting our cat in the cabin. We contact vivamare.com.ua and asked them to help us with this. After 12 hours of searching for suitable tickets, we were offered @TurkishAirlines which met all our requirements.
We bought flight tickets: Kiev 10:20AM(departure) – Istanbul 14:15PM(departure) – Toronto 18:15PM(arrivals)- transfer 4h20min – Toronto 22:25PM(departure)-Winnipeg 00:01AM (arrivals).
On April, 18, my wife called Customer service support (0800-501207) to book a place in the cabin for our cat(earlier we can’t call because we were busy with documents and even don’t know will the cat flight with us or not), in customer support we heard the answer no because on flight Kiev-Istanbul will be a dog in the cabin, thus cat and dog can’t be in one cabin! We can offer only place in the baggage. After that call we contact to Victoria from vivamare.com.ua to change our flight on another time, besides we have an option to book the flight at 5:30 AM Kyiv-Istanbul, Victoria said that she will contact Turkish Airlines and clarify information.
On April, 17, Victoria contact to my wife and asked the photo and size of our cat. After one hour she sent a screenshot of confirmation that our cat will fly in the cabin with us and price for flight pet in the cabin $170(this price indicate that our cat will fly in the cabin because price for flight in the baggage cost $270) for flight from Kiev-Toronto, and we should pay in Boryspil Airport during check-in, flight from Toronto to Winnipeg we should book in AirCanada(because this internal flight was made by Canadian airlines). After confirmation we even don’t believe how this possible that one operator said that we can’t book place in the cabin and another one booked ..so my wife called to support again just to be sure..and it was really true, we’ve got a confirmation that our cat will fly with us in the cabin. After that, we bought a soft-sided carrier, (which doesn’t fit for transportation in the baggage) and began preparing all required documents for the pet.
May, 17. Victoria from vivamare.com.ua contact to us and said that flight Toronto-Winnipeg is delayed for 1 hour, departure time 23:25 PM, it was good news for us because we need to have more time in Toronto, I will write further why.
May, 23. We took our cat to the vet for getting a reference F1 for transfer abroad.
May, 24. We want to check-in online and here began an interesting! During online check-in my wife doesn’t have an option to book a seat in the cabin, we called to support and they offered to make check-in online by phone. Operator choose sits for us Kyiv-Istanbul (15F and 15E) and Istanbul-Toronto(43A and 43B), we again made sure that our cat will fly with us in the cabin. I’ve decided to check my sits online by myself and to my surprise, I found that I had another sit 46K and my wife still doesn’t have a seat! We called to support again and we talk to some girl operator, she confused in our tickets and started to offer some random places 15A,15B,46K, and 46J …and this is all 4 sits for 2 of us on one airplane. Then she said that she sees our booking from Canada to Toronto ..and that was the last straw ..and I hung up the phone. Turkish Airlines if you doubt you can check this call. The third time I called to support and talked to another operator he said that my wife can’t book her sit because she will flight with cat thus she has to pay and then check-in. And for my question why there was a mess with booking different places he answered that the previous operator started booked new places and did not remove previous reservation. Thus, we’ve got sit 15A, 15B, 43A,43B. P.S: all in all, during check-in at the airport our sits was 15A,15B, 46K,46J.
May, 25. at 7 AM we were in Boryspil Airport, my wife went to the vet and change reference F1 on the international certificate for the cat. At 7:30 AM we were on the check-in desk and there
Turkish Airlines representative said that we can’t take our cat into the cabin it should be only in baggage because some dog already exists in the cabin! Representatives didn’t want to listen that we have confirmation from customer support .. and send us to the ticket-sales desk we went there and here the same answer that they can’t help us and our cat should go only in baggage and we should go and call to customer support again for the clarification! We called customer support and there said that our cat flight in the baggage from Kyiv to Istanbul and then from Istanbul to Toronto in the cabin BUT on our question how we can pick her up in transit zone in Istanbul – they said – “IN NO WAY”! Then we talk to operator Vasiliy from customer support and @Vivamaretour representative for 45 minutes, Vasiliy from customer support was adamant, he said: “Yes, I see that your cat will fly in the baggage from Kyiv to Istanbul but you can’t pick up her being in transit zone!” and “I don’t know how to help you!” (this conversation Turkish Airlines also can be heard ). We spent an hour talking to customer support. We leave our cat with our relatives(it’s good that our family come to see us off) After check-in we saw that our flight from Istanbul to Toronto was delayed for 2h25min! Onboarding, we were upset and in a terrible mood. Thank you Turkish Airlines.
Arriving in Istanbul, we found that our flight was delayed on 2h35min! In the end, we had a departure with 3h30 min delayed! The flight was good, comfortable seats, food and aircraft staff.
May, 25. We arrived in Toronto at 9:00 PM and 20 minutes we ride on landing strip …. so we come out of a plane at 9:30 PM…thus for check-in and going to another connection we have only 2 hours. Who knows what means landing in Toronto understand that this time will be not enough… So when we pass through all checks and go to baggage check-in it was 10:35 PM and check-in already was closed….. but AirCanada understand our situation that we have Landing procedure, that Turkish Airlines was delayed and thanks to shifting commander they took our baggage and we went to the gate (if we were late, next flight to Winnipeg was next day on Sunday at 12:15 PM and it means we should have stayed at the airport for all night and half a day!!!).
Victoria from vivamare.com.ua writes a complaint it has number TK-2261480 she was told that manager will contact with her. Now, June,3 but no one did not call her from Turkish Airlines and no one did not contact us.
In total what do we have:
1. Expenses for cat documents F1 = 180grn+ certificate 170 = 350
2. Expenses for cat’s food and different stuff (we threw everything because we thought she will be with us) = 1000 grn
3. Now we should pay for transferring her to Toronto by Cargo Service and it cost $510
4. And this service has requirement chip for cat – 380 grn
5. Tickets Winnipeg-Toronto-Winnipeg = $473 via AirCanada for one person
6. Plus moral damage.
Turkish Airlines – who will cover these expenses? or maybe you have another idea to handle this? The cat in Kyiv now!
-in this case, I see that customer support in Turkish Airlines are fully incompetent
-unwillingness to bear the responsibility to passengers whom you approved booking for the pet in the cabin.
-No one help to solve the problem, your managers just bounced us around!
Fly with Turkish Airlines and we don’t care about you and your problems and it possible that you leave your pet in the airport alone! – I think this is a good tagline for the company!!!
The worst airline in the world! Do not fly with this pitiful excuse for an airline. Turkish Airlines treat their customers with total contempt. We flew into Istanbul from Sofia on a Turkish Airlines flight that took off over an hour late and then circled the skies above Istanbul for another hour before finally landing, 3 hours for a one hour flight. We missed our connection to Singapore due to their delay and after being herded like cattle for over an hour, surrounded by hundreds of other very grumpy passengers, as every flight in or out of Istanbul had also been delayed or cancelled, we were told they would not rebook our flights home because we had made the Sofia to Istanbul trip on a separate booking. I pointed out that it was also a Turkish Airlines flight and the delay had made us miss our Turkish Airlines flight connection so did they not think that they were responsible for us missing our flight? Did they not think they had a duty of care to their own paying customers? Of course not, because they wanted us to purchase another set of tickets for the flight we had already paid for. They did not give a damn. I pointed out that our luggage had been checked straight through to Singapore and we had already checked in and had been issued with our boarding passes to Singapore, so why hadn’t they held the fight for us? Apparently they had no idea of our booking and they had no responsibility. Yes, their IT systems also suck!
After being sent on a wild goose chase around the airport from desk to desk only to be told the same thing, we finally managed to be directed to a phone to contact customer “care” ( a misnomer if ever there was one!). Another complete joke; the first line was dead and the second was a recorded message with no relevant option to choose. Eventually i was directed to the compensation office to use the single direct line they had with customer relations. They completed a “feedback form” over the phone that went unanswered and i called back repeatedly on their single telephone. Yes-hundreds of destinations, thousands of (misguided) passengers and only a SINGLE telephone to connect to yet another disinterested staff member (slightly less rude than the others because they know they are being recorded) who was unable to answer any of my questions. After 9 hours of enduring rude staff feeding us bullshit, and not even a remote smell of any apology from anyone, we gave up and purchased another ticket at twice the price of our original tickets to get back to Singapore.
I’ve since learnt that they routinely overbook flights and put passengers on standby without even asking, so this means our Singapore flight was probably paid for twice; once by us and again by another standby passenger. We also had to purchase another flight, at a hugely inflated price, so they made three or four times the money-clever tactics! Until word gets around and passengers stop booking.
Be warned, do not book your flight using any third party website because that is the other excuse they use not to rebook your flight!
This airline deliberately overbooks all flights, then bumps passengers off, herding them like cattle, some to hotels, but mostly looks for an excuse to let them lie around on the airport floor because there are insufficient seats and not a single source of free water anywhere in the airport. They happily delay flights and then find an excuse not to rebook the passenger, instead charging them a huge amount to purchase new flights to get back home due to missed connections. Their staff have clearly been trained to bullshit everyone and there is a culture among staff that customers are ten a penny and you just need to stare at them blankly, (or pretend you don’t speak English is another ruse) until they go away. Oh, and there’s no need to apologise or accept any responsibility, and it’s fine to be as rude as you wish. There are plenty more customers out there. You hope!
I flew with turkish airline in december 2018 from heathrow and had a ‘supposed to be ‘ 16hrs stopover flight in Turkey and a prominse of hotel accomodation but due to the excess delay and a failure to provide accomodation or even access lounge – the whole trip / holiday became a nightmare as myself and my daughter end up sleeping on the airport floor for the duration of 20hrs stopoever – nightmare!!
I am contacting you regarding the delay occurred in Flight number TK693 from Cairo to Istanbul on 05-02-2019; the delay was 1 hour and 30 minutes, which leads to missing my next flight from Istanbul to Malta (flight number TK 1369)-the gate closes before the plane took off by 30 min., and we were standing on the gate at that time.
We were told to complain to the Turkish airlines, and they provided us with two options: I choose to take a flight from Istanbul to Roma (TK1865) then transit for 3 hours and take the next flight from Rome to Malta (AZ0886) to arrive at 6:00 pm instead my original flight to arrive at 8:30 am. The second option is to take a flight from Istanbul to Malta arriving at 8:30 pm. To catch my colleague in a business dinner I choose the first option.
After my arrival, I waited my bag and suddenly I was informed that I lost it. I directed to the baggage customer to make a complain, after contacting Alitalia they messaged that the bag is found in Roma (Fiumicino) airport and they will send it tomorrow on 06-02-2019 at 6:00 pm.
On that day I was on a business meeting as a representative of my country (Egyptian Petroleum Ministry) and my company (GASCO) in “MEDGIO integrity workshop”-Radisson Blue- Malta. I had to wear the same cloths (not formal) for 3 days, moreover there was important papers related to my work in the bag.
I stayed for 3 days without my insulin injection, which was inside my bag and of course I could not have them from any pharmacy as they need prescription. I managed to have injection on the second day.
I received the bag before my departure on 07-02-2019 from Malta with one and half hours which means a high risk of departing without my bag and a late timing!!!
I am very sad for the late delivery of my bag, I had to wear my underwear for 3 days which was very annoying to me as I do not have time to buy new ones.
To whom it may concern,
Last night my friend and I had an awful awful experience with Turkish Airlines, And we discovered after that that TK is known for the bad experience and service after spending 7 hours at Ataturk Airport seeing all the people around us complaining. I really hope that this complaint will be taken in extreme seriousness and strict measures will be applied.
We had two tickets flying back from Istanbul to Beirut on Sunday feb 17 at 12:25 pm from Ataturk Airport to Rafic Hariri International airport (Tamara Hmeidani & Remi Hanna). We arrived to the airport at 10 am, 2 hours and a half before our flight departure to discover how crowded and unorganized everything was. After struggling to cross the first scan point we were able to check in at the counter one hour prior to our flight’s departure noting that at the check-in desk no one told us that we are late. Instead, they checked us in normally (knowing we wont be able to make it and knowing they will charge us for a new ticket later on). After checking in, we rushed to the gate passing by another scanning check point that was also over crowded. We got to the gate at 12:05 pm, 20 minutes before the flight leaves to find out that we cannot get on the flight because we arrived at the same moment the gate was closing. The flight was not leaving before 20 min and the staff that was so rude refused to let us in.
After this shocking incident they started directing us to other counters that would transfer us to other counters until we got out of the airport and they sent us to the sales office to change our tickets. There we found out that many many other passenger had missed the same flight which makes your airlines more accountable of this incident.
At the sales office, our only option was to wait till the next flight which was 7 hours later and pay 600 dollars per ticket. Our tickets couldn’t be refunded and penalties couldn’t be applied except buying a new ticket that costed us triple our original two ways ticket (200$ per ticket).
How can this even be possible? We’ve been all around the world to 100s of different airports and flew with many different airlines and have missed flights before, but never ever did we experience this kind of unethical, unprofessional and horrible experience.
-No flights ever leaves without passengers that are already checked in and are inside the airport.
-No flights ever leaves without making at least 3 last calls.
-No Airlines lets you check in knowing you wont be able to make it to the flight on time.
– No airlines doesn’t tell you what time the gate closes.
– No Airlines makes you pay for a new ticket that is extremely over priced. All airlines makes you pay a penalty with is around 50 – 70 $ and directly change your ticket.
– No airlines has a lazy unprofessional team that couldn’t even find a fair solution for us and the other passengers. Instead all they cared about was making money out of situations they created.
All of us will make sure to never travel with TK again or anyone else we know!
I expect professional and fair measures to be taken to compensate for our losses and a full refund.
Thank you
I was traveling from Koln/Bonn (CGN) Airport Germany to Jinnah International Airport Karachi on flight # TK 1674 on 24 November 2018. My flight got late and it took more than 2 hours to take off from the scheduled time due to which i missed my next connecting flight from Ataturk Istanbul Airport to Jinnah International Airport Karachi. I was told initially by the staff of Turkish airline that the flight was only 1 hour late but it was 2 hours late and from that time I have been informed to your staff that how important to take my next connecting flight. Once i reached at Ataturk Istanbul Airport my next connecting flight TK-708 had already gone. I work in Zalando as a Picker for almost 1.5 years and the core reason for this travel is to appear in my Final Examinations in Bachelors of Commerce.
From here starts a new struggle, I was given the boarding pass at Ataturk Istanbul Airport for a flight which was after 24 hours. Moreover, I was not provided with the visa or anything. I got the visa by myself after paying 54.26 Euros visa fees without any help or support of Turkish Airlines staff and after being ridiculed for 6 hours on Ataturk Istanbul Airport I finally got a room to sleep at night, but again it was shocking to know that I had to checked out from the hotel by 1200 hours otherwise I would be charged. I took that bait too and went to the airport from the hotel directly although my flight was after 9 hours at 2135 hours with the idea that I could make the most of it and this could be the blessing in disguise. I reached airport at 1100 hours and wanted to take part in the Tour Istanbul on Sunday from 1200 to 1800 hours but I was told that I can’t do so as I’ve already taken the hotel accommodation facility and can’t take tour Istanbul. So I was stranded again on the Ataturk Airport Istanbul for another 10 hrs. 16 hours of being stranded on the same airport within the last 24 hours is nobody’s dream when they are flying with the best airline in the whole of Europe. But this doesn’t end here. Once I reached at my final destination one of my luggage was missing as well. My all essentials was in that missing bag meaning again I had spend my hard earned money to buy some essentials.
However, i concluded that lost of my next connecting flight, spend 16 hours on Ataturk Airport Istanbul and lost of bag at Jinnah International Airport Karachi and missed my examination.
Apropos, this is very painful and mental torture for me to travel with Turkish Airlines.
Now, I would have to appear in the supplementary examinations meaning I would have to overstay than initially planned and I am not sure whether my employer Zalando would give me the desired holidays as my total quota of holidays have already been exhausted. I might have to end up losing my job.
I had a ticket on 22 December from Gothenburg,Sweden, to Meshed, Iran. With 3h and 55min transfer in Istanbul
My first flight from Gothenburg has one and a half hour delay. When I the airplane landed in Istanbul. I found that my next flight to Iran had 6h and 55 min delay. After this time passed, it was written on the board that my flight had 3 hours more delay. At last after 12h and 25 min delay the flight that were scheduled at 21:05, 22 September, departed Istanbul at 09:30 next day.
I want to complain because
1)Turkish Airlines haven’t informed me about such a long delay before my trip by email or SMS.
2)All during this long time, Turkish Airline didn’t provide us any facilities or lounge or hotel for passenger to rest.
3) there were no office or responsible person in the Airport to go there and ask for some kind of help.
4) I miss one of the most important meeting on the next day which had a very bad influence on my reliability and credit (as they didn’t inform me before the travel and I couldn’t rearrange my meeting)
I expect that for all these, Turkish Airlines should recompensate all these at least by giving back me the ticket price.
Best Regards
I am tired as hell because I cannot update my password for Miles and Smiles. The server is not available. it says Tried all: 1 addresses, but could not connect over HTTPS to server: wsintra.thy.com port: 443
My miles going to expire soon, I called you several times but still cannot update the password.