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Photo taken by: Ari Mesulam
Route: Beijing - Istanbul, 15 Oct 2003
Aircraft: Airbus 340 , Business Class
Price: USD 2800 (return)
Flight duration: 10 hours
Dinner: Selection of Cheese and grapes. Followed by a very nice chocolate cake with mint and chestnut sauce.
Drink: wine with cheese and coffee with chocolate cake.
Comment: Cheese was very good and the selection is very nice. The chocolate cake was amazingly good and soft. The mint touch was very nice.
Rating: 9 / 10

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Photo taken by: Ari Mesulam
Route: Beijing - Istanbul, 15 Oct 2003
Aircraft: Airbus 340 , Business Class
Price: USD 2800 (return)
Flight duration: 10 hours
Dinner: Soup. The menu said smoked eggplant soup but it did taste like cream of mushroom with some croutons. Main Dish : Chinese sweet and sour chicken, fried rice and broccoli. Drink : wine.
Comments: I have never heard of eggplant soup but if it was really one, it was good anyway. Always very nice to have soup in the air. Main dish was rather tasteless but the single plate presentation is always very pleasant. Wine : Turkish Airlines does not have a wine list and the crew does not really know (or care) much what kind of wine there is. I took a nice Turkish red wine which was very good.
Rating: 8 /10 for soup 6/10 for main dish, 10/10 for presentation

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Photo taken by: Marco
Flying from: TK1953 Istanbul IST to Amsterdam AMS, 6 July 2003

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Photo taken by: Marco
Flying from: TK1953 Istanbul IST to Amsterdam AMS, 6 July 2003
Flight duration: 3 hours 20 minutes
Aircraft type/class: Boeing 737-800, economy
Meal type: lunch - The pasta I promised myself (see image 033). I'm not a fan of mushrooms (yuk) so first I spent a few minutes on removing the mushrooms. Try that from a pasta with some sticky sauce, or cheese on top, it looks pretty disgusting. Of course, after that, I had to deal with a cold pasta :-) The taste was very good though, despite the looks. Salad consisted of carrot strips, corn and cucumber strips. Dessert: one of these delicious Turkish deserts, sweeter than sweet, drenched in honey. Additional: bread, tea crackers, salad dressing, butter, cheese and a refreshing towel. Choice of tea or coffee after the meal.
Drink: Pepsi
Comments: Metal cutlery again...
Rating: 7

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Photo taken by: Marco
Flying from: TK1952 Amsterdam AMS to Istanbul IST, 2 July 2003

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Photo taken by: Marco
Flying from: TK1952 Amsterdam AMS to Istanbul IST, 2 July 2003

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Photo taken by: Marco
Flying from: TK1952 Amsterdam AMS to Istanbul IST, 2 July 2003
Flight duration: 3 hours 20 minutes
Aircraft type/class: Boeing 737-800, economy
Meal type: lunch - Yellow rice, green beans, paprika, and the thing in the middle is chicken. Top left = salad, consists of tomato, mini corn and some lettuce. Desert = apple pie like. Additional: bread, salted tea crackers, salad dressing, butter, cheese, refreshing towel. Choice of tea or coffee after the meal.
Drink: mixed cola :-) While serving me, the F/A ran out of Coke, she filled the cup with Pepsi. Has anyone ever experienced this? :-)
Comments: I had to choose, chicken or pasta. After this meal I decided I would take the pasta on the way back. The chicken was still in it's own skin (greasyyy), not something I really like. Maybe I have to be happpy there were no bones in it. I was forced to peel off the skin first. See details on pics 034 and 035...
Rating: 6.5

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Photo taken by: Cliff
Flying from: Istanbul to Amsterdam 20 March 2003
Flight duration: 3 hours 20 minutes
Aircraft type/class: Boeing 737-800 economy class
Meal type: lunch - Mixed salad with tomato, cucumber, olives and corn, salad dressing, warm roll, chicken, potato coquettes, mixed vegetables.
crackers, cheese, butter, pear pie....or was it apple pie?
Drink: orange juice
Comments: Meal choice was pasta or chicken. This is the meal of one of my friends. I had the vegetarian pasta.
Rating: 8.5

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Photo taken by: Cliff
Flying from: Istanbul to Amsterdam 20 March 2003
Flight duration: 3 hours 20 minutes
Aircraft type/class: Boeing 737-800 economy class
Meal type: lunch - Mixed salad with tomato, cucumber, olives and corn, salad dressing, warm roll, vegetarian pasta with broccoli, white cheese and olives, crackers, cheese, butter, pear pie....or was it apple pie?
Drink: cherry juice
Comments: "a very good meal and I enjoyed every bit of it. There was a choice of meals and my friends had chicken, please see other picture. The meal was served by a stewardess with beautiful eyes.
Rating: 8.5

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Photo taken by: Cliff
Flying from: Amsterdam to Istanbul, 15 March 2003
Flight duration: 3 hours 5 minutes
Aircraft type/class: Boeing 737-400 economy class
Meal type: lunch - green salad with tomato and mini corn, salad dressing, warm roll, yellow rice, chicken wrapped in skin, green string beans, red peppers, apple pie, crackers, cheese, butter.
Drink: cherry juice
Comments: I didn't really like the chicken because of the skin wrapped
around the meat. YAK!
Rating: 5

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Photo taken by: Luigi Vallero

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Photo taken by: Luigi Vallero

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Photo taken by: Luigi Vallero
Flying from: Istanbul to Nice, 2 January 2003
Class: Business on Boeing 737-800
Meal type: Aperitif/Lunch - After the welcome drink (orange juice, water or champagne) the stewardesses handed out menu cards, and then the aperitif service followed: I had a tomato juice with pepper, again served with a bag of roasted hazelnuts as in economy (+8). The tray was then served, featuring an appetizer platter of delicious smoked salmon and chicken, accompanied by a horseradish sauce, capers, onion and lemon (+10), a seasonal salad with artichoke heart, pepper and tomato (the artichoke and tomato had already gone when I took the picture) served with an Italian oil/balsamico dressing (+7,5) and a selection of cheese and butter (+8). Shortly afterwards the hot entrees were brought around, in this case three choices including sea bass with mushrooms and vegetables, chicken breast filled with oriental rice pilaf, seasonal vegetables and cream spinach or "penne rigate" pasta with roasted pinenuts, tomato sauce with garlic and basil, broccoli and feta cheese. I had the latter and although it was not "penne rigate" but "fusilli" pasta, it actually tasted fine, and being Italian I love "al dente" pasta (+7,5). I was told that also the chicken was very good. After we had finished, the dessert consisting of a delicious Swiss cherry glace cake roll (+9) was served from the cart, together with tea/coffee and digestifs (I had Cointreau). The bread roll was good as anywhere else around Turkey (+8).
Drink: Champagne (+9) and sparkling water.
Comments: "A very good flight and a very good meal: compliments to THY. It is difficult to find another European carrier offering a choice of three hot entrees in Business on a 2 hours 40 minutes flight."
Rating: 8,4

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Photo taken by: Luigi Vallero
Flying from: Istanbul to Izmir, 29 December 2002
Class: Domestic Economy on Airbus A310-300
Meal type: Breakfast/Snack - A curious double-decker sandwich filled with some cold cut (believed to be beef) and cheese: bread was wholemeal. Not bad but not even memorable (+6). Being a morning flight I'd have preferred something sweet.
Drink: I had a simple orange juice (+7).
Comments: "Considering that the actual time in the air was less than 45 minutes, it was a good snack."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): on average 6,5

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Photo taken by: Luigi Vallero

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Photo taken by: Luigi Vallero
Flying from: Nice to Istanbul, 26 December 2002
Class: Economy on Boeing 737-800
Meal type: Aperitif/Lunch - First of all aperitif service - in my case a simple tomato juice - served with a bag of roasted hazelnuts, which was a nice variation to the ususal peanuts served on many other carriers. Then lunch followed, including a good mixed salad with french dressing (+7,5), two hot entrees to choose from including green ravioli filled with ricotta and spinach in tomato sauce (+8,5), or roasted chicken breast with mixed vegetables and mashed potatoes (a bit bland and sligthly dry but not bad at all, +7) of which I had both, spreadable light cheese and crackers (+7) and for dessert - being Christmas time - a French
Bouche de Noel (sort of sponge cake roll filled with cream and chocolate, +9). The bread roll was absolutely goog for being "aeronautical" bread (+8)
Drink: Turkish red wines (Yakut Kavaklidere and Villa Doluca, both worth a +8,5) and sparkling water.
Comments: "A very nice flight and a very good meal, far better than what most other European carriers would offer these days on a 2 hours 40 minutes flight. The Bouche de Noel was a very welcomed touch."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): on average +8

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Photo taken by: TravelClub MKD
Flying from: Istanbul to Skopje, Macedonia, 3 January 2003
Class: Economy
Meal type: Lunch - Tuna fish with vegetables, aubergine, lettuce-carrots-sweet corn salad, Lio - lemon and olive oil dressing, bread roll, crackers, butter and edam cheese; Dessert: Egg white cream cake with chocolate sprinkles
Drink: Cankaya Turkish white wine; Coffee
Comments: A bit repetitive; The very same meal was served on our outbound flight from SKP to IST
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 2 (for repetitiveness) 10 for the wine and dessert

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Photo taken by: TravelClub MKD
Flying from: Antalya to Istanbul, 3 January 2003
Class: Economy
Meal type: Snack - A slice of sweet cake
Drink: Orange juice
Comments: "Served at 10 am on a 60 minute domestic flight"
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: TravelClub MKD
Flying from: Istanbul to Antalya, 29 December 2002
Class: Economy
Meal type: Late afternoon snack - Savory sesame snack
Drink: Orange juice
Comments: "Served on a 60 minute domestic flight"
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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