It might be useful to some to have more detailed information on the airlines we use to get us to Turkey and back. I know that some people don't care how they get there just as long as they do, but some of us, ahem are maybe not as supple as we used to be and comfort is important on a 4 hour plus flight.
It's a bit anoraky (is that a word?) I know, but you never know, it might just be handy sometime, for example, which are the best seats to pick on a particular airline?
Believe it or not, that information is available because there are a few websites dedicated to that sort of thing courtesy of passengers taking the time to give it.
Here's a few seating tips as an example ;
First Choice Airlines
Boeing 757-200 : Economy Class
Best seats for legroom are 11DE, 12ABC, 31BCDE, First Choice do sometimes try and sell 31AF as extra legroom seats, however, these seats are next to the emergency door and the door contains the emergency slide and the legroom on 31AF is greatly impeded by this.
Airbus A320 : Economy Class
Extra leg-room seating on this aircraft are rows 12 & 13ABC/DEF emergency over-wing exits. Row 11 has no recline as it backs on to the emergency exits.
Thomas Cook Airlines
A330 (2-class configuration)
Seats 1A and 1B in Premium Economy have huge space in front, up to bulkhead. Row 14 in Economy has no window
This particular site awards two stars to
Onur Air which they rate as poor. They also give them one star for in-flight entertainment which is rated as very poor, and three stars for staff attitude and friendliness which is rated as fair.
It's important to bear in mind that
Onur is of course a low cost airline but then so are
Air Berlin and
Easyjet who get a four and three star rating respectively.
I've been thinking for a while that maybe we could have something like that on here - each of the airlines we use to fly us back and forth to Turkey could be rated by us under say half a dozen headings such as check-in procedures, food, staff, comfort etc. The data after time could be useful as a tool to lobby the airlines with?
Having said that, it might be hard to get agreement on what categories to use etc. Anyway, just a thought for possible discussion.
The site I used for reference here is
http://www.airlinequality.com/
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