"deceiving you as a customer"
T Parkete (Turkey)
✅ Trip Verified | During the time of a pandemic you would think that airlines would stop being greedy and stop deceiving you as a customer. When booking on the website, the middle seats on the flight were blocked as in the middle seat cannot be occupied in order to keep some distance. When I boarded the flight was full, and some people weren’t even wearing their masks. On top of that, you pay a full ticket price assuming that since you’re not on a low fare airline you would be served a snack or coffee. Nothing was served except water. And while booking if you wanted to choose a seat you’d have to pay extra! I don’t understand how is this allowed at a normal airline.
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Istanbul to Izmir |
Date Flown | July 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"no refund after 3 months"
C Marzin (United Kingdom)
✅ Trip Verified | Very rude call centre people once they take your money from card you are abandoned as no help you get from them. Flights have been cancelled, no email notification, no live information, no refund after 3 months! This is the last time I am using them.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | London to Dubrovnik via Istanbul |
Date Flown | May 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"The worst airline ever"
D Masik (United Kingdom)
✅ Trip Verified | The worst airline ever. My 2 baggage have lost around 4 months. I have done everything that you can imagine: filling report, calling the airline, following their website's feedback but up to now, no one takes responsibility. No one says what do I do to get my luggage. So irresponsible
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Istanbul to Sao Paulo |
Date Flown | March 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Wifi & Connectivity | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"don't fly Turkish Airlines"
F Marden (United States)
✅ Trip Verified | Starting with the first purchase with Turkish Airlines, I have ordered a ticked for June 22, 2020 (After airline began flights starting June 19th), my flight got canceled. I opted in to have my next flight July 7,2020 ... a week later that flights get canceled as well, so I call the 1-800 number, wait for 45 minutes to be connected with someone, that is each time I have to call and wait for 45-70 minutes to be connected. Once done so, the airline schedules me for July 1st. The flight they scheduled me for uses United Airline to fly from DEN-ORD and then Turkish Airlines from ORD to Istanbul and to Kiev. Long story short, I am moving to Ukraine permanently so I cancel my lease and get to the airport only to find out that flight from United doesn't even exist. Calling Turkish .. after 30-40 minutes of wait, I get a feedback case number. 7 hours later, still nothing besides the email saying "we have a feedback case open". Basically no flight rebooking, no rerouting. Now I am sitting in hotel as I have no place to stay, no relatives in USA and I don't have a lot of money to do this for more than few days. On top of everything, I am sitting on the phone with Turkish Airlines and waiting for 1 hours 32 minutes and 33 seconds as of now. No response. Always book on Expedia or other merchants as they offer protection... don't fly Turkish Airlines.
Type Of Traveller | Business |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Denver to Kiev via Chicago / Istanbul |
Date Flown | July 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"Be aware of this airline"
May Gu (Hong Kong)
✅ Trip Verified | Hong Kong to Málaga via Istanbul. Be aware of this airline, these days they just cancel flights for no reason and last minute. They cancelled 2 times of my flight ticket HK - Istanbul- Málaga. You don't want this for you, especially during a pandemic situation, while everything is changing, all you want is a reliable airline that take you to your destination as planned. I changed everything (hotels, rentals and even with my dog) The experience for booking ticket for my dog traveling along wasn’t nice either. The way to book is to call their call center, where they only know how to keep seat but no idea in regards to the process sending and picking up dog at both airports, you have to call local sales team for it. But for my case the HK local team has no responding for 2 weeks and still hasn’t replied a proper answer.
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Hong Kong to Málaga via Istanbul |
Date Flown | June 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"are not reliable at all"
Shamsiddin Sultanov (Canada)
✅ Trip Verified | Tashkent to Toronto via Istanbul. Try do not buy ticket from this airlines. They will cancel your ticket anytime and will ask you pay more to reschedule your trip. Turkish Airlines are not reliable at all. At the beginning you think you are buying cheap ticket but later it will cost your more than others.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Tashkent to Toronto via Istanbul |
Date Flown | June 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"they offer a voucher "
Adila Abouel (United States)
✅ Trip Verified | Turkish Airlines nowadays just drag your feet to make a reservation and get your money, they followed adopted a shameful and unethical to get your money. They sell me a ticket and they canceled my flight 48 hours later after I made the reservation, and after I called them to confirm they will resume the operation starting 7/1/20. They canceled my departure flight, they were telling me my return flight is still active, why, because of Covid19, so why COVI9 is impacting the departure trip and not impacting the return trip, it's only 10 days apart. And there were no changes related to COVID19 during that 48 hours. How can I use the return flight if the departure is canceled, they didn't offer me to even reschedule the departure trip, they offer a voucher when I asked for a refund, they said no refund for Economy Class. I mentioned to them about other specific airlines whey offered a refund for economy class, then when they get stuck, they said, this is our policy.
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Los Angeles to Cairo via Instanbul |
Date Flown | July 2019 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"refusing to refund your money"
Mehdi Shirzadi (Canada)
✅ Trip Verified | Turkish Airlines has adopted a shameful policy to recover their losses and finance their operations these days. They sell you ticket (only to get your money, no intention to fly you to your destination), then cancel the flight and keep you hostage by refusing to refund your money. They don't answer phones and emails. You have to accept a credit to be used in a year or pay a penalty and still wait god knows how many months or years before they decide to give your money back. It's so dishonest and shameful. Never ever again trust them.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Toronto to Istanbul |
Date Flown | June 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"changed my flight 5 times"
Peter Ivanov (Bulgaria)
Not Verified | This is by far the worst company I have travelled with. They changed my flight 5 times and constantly giving me false information. They are part of the Star Alliance group, but doesnt want to give you ticket from other of their alliance members. Refunding your money will take a year and this basically means you are being a bank for them. They are constantly not picking their phones and putting you on hold. From April, now I'm not even sure will i fly in July! This is ridiculous.
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Tokyo to Sofia via Istanbul |
Date Flown | April 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"only option is free change request"
Baran Sonmez (United States)
Not Verified | It is appalling how bad Turkish Airlines handled their refunding options during the COVID period. Their website clearly states the following options for a refund: open ticket, free change request, refund in Miles, refund with a voucher, standard refund; however, whenever you contact them the only real option is free change request. As a frequent flyer to Turkey, I will use other airlines going forward. During this outbreak all other airlines I had reservations with gave a full refund within days; however, Turkish Airlines is refusing to have any common sense and make sure their customers are suffering.
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Houston to Istanbul |
Date Flown | May 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |