This story is dedicated to the people living in Urfa, Sanliurfa. The fifth most important place in the islamic world. A city with 800000 inhabitants, 10 km short of the Syrian border and no one heard about it in Western Europe ever before, at least not me!
The trip in one word:
UNCHARTED
"Exploring unknown places is the theme today, undoubtedly!"
Merhaba, hello, dear readers,
well, these January 2014 looks like a tough month in terms of travel.
We started early with a trip to Ukraine via Russia.
Not been to Greece for a long time.
Espagna by Swiftair maybe?.
And that´s the way to go now:
Thanx to once more:
http://www.gcmap.com/
Thursday, 30.01.2014
STR (Flughafen Stuttgart)
IST (İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı)
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlhj_bRFBGk
Service TK 1702 operated by Turkish Airlines
Scheduled: 11.40 // 15.35
Here are the actual visited airports:
Visited Airports II auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
And the first 200 examples:
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All the checked airlines:
AIRLINES CHECKED auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
And also the recorded plane types:
PLANE TYPES RECORDED auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
Some visited countries:
VISITED COUNTRIES auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
The final Tripreporter 2013 data:
TRIPREPORTER 2013 auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
And here is 2014:
TRIPREPORTER 2014 auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
A relaxed late morning departure close to noon is on schedule today. No earlier wake up call than standard needed. The usual queues during this time of the day at the motorway, but nothing out of the ordinary and earlier than expected it is time to wish the car a lazy day or two at STR´s P0. What is commented with a relaxed take care, there is this cute japanese one beside me, see you soon again, well that´s it.
OLCI is available 24 hours prior to departure and works well.
I try to train my printer just a little bit and do it at home this time what works also well. No detour needed for the SSK´s or counter´s. The ticket is secured by Opodo and the fare is 80.00 Euro´s.
I´am early and what about my plane?.
Well perfectly convenient to today´s tight schedule it is 20 minutes late inbound. Ahem, it is the day with strike action announced by European ATC in several countries so it´s not that really unexpected but no, it definitely suits me well today.
Blue Air from Bucarest exactly on the same corridor is close to two hours late
Just a swift view for the Star lounge and that´s the one for me from gate 337
This is TC-JRO "Uludag" the A321 like on schedule.
New to the log and leg no. 30 on type.
43 examples are in the fleet an this one is with TK since 29.04.2011.
There are no stories to show here
The front office is staffed with an turkish "Kaptan", slightly stressed it feels with the nevertheless nice welcome
during boarding and once again much more relaxed short after departure. Routing is Graz-Timisoara-Veliko Tarnovo at a maximum of 37000 feet.
Somewhat heavy action at the military apron in the background
Cabin crew is one middle aged and ok male,
one young woman, slim, cute short ponytail, really nice
and two middle aged women, both ok.
Another middle aged woman, turkish asian is also on duty, not that large, smiling, well built, ahem, really nice but no way, not as super nice as these young woman from Swiss last week!.
Leaving the "Flughafen Stuttgart" for the first, for the second, for the who knows how much times at 11.55 am, 15 minutes late, 2.25 hours by "Turkish" ex runway "Zero-Seven". Negative 1.5 degrees, high clouds, dry
and up we go with a view to the cabin
Late boarding is also the biz today, 11F and three seats for me
in the end.
The load is 70%, a very few number of germans and mostly locals on the way.
Legroom is ok with the dark grey, clean so far leather seats and just some details
The safety card and the magazine
Sure, TK know´s what I like, lovely!
And what´s good for me?
Frequent readers now, right hand side and left hand side, yes, the middle part, no and the dessert is lovely, too
Welcome to the "Istanbul Atatürk Havalimanı" and the 2600 meters runway "Zero-Five". 3.20 pm, surprise, 15 minutes ahead to schedule, 1 degree and high fog.
No way that the following behaviour has any relations to my actual place of living in southern Germany, no way!. There is an onward flight on a separate ticket, of course. Why?.
All on one ticket was much more expensive to book out of Germany, separate saves me some 150.00 Euro´s. Hah, success, that´s me.
But, you know, the pleasure calms swiftly down with the earlier announced strike action, a very short connecting time,
immigration and the long walk for domestic departures with one more security check prior to the flight.
There is the one and only later service for my destination and therefore I´ve decided to fix an at least partial refundable ticket if something turns wrong.
That might be my first flight on Onur Air, if I really need it.
Onur Air, these reliable company as the backup for a strike day?. Well, that´s the way to go!.
You know, there is always someone watching you,
isn´t it?.
Short connections are announced to show up on the inseat screen. And this is the one and only announcement.
Ok, there might be another passenger on this service, but I´am on separate tickets, strange
Now we will see the connection.
Take care.
The Tripreporter
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