When traveling to Türkiye, you definitely have to deal with the airport and the airline. Which airline is better?

You can also check out the relevant travel guides about the airport. Here are the relevant airport guides.

About IST (Istanbul Ataturk International Airport, IST is its airport code) IST is the main international airport in Istanbul, Turkey, and your first stop when you arrive in Turkey.

Because of the geographical relationship, it is quite suitable to transfer in the Middle East when traveling domestically to Europe, Africa, and South America.

Most of the connecting places are Istanbul (TK Turkish Airlines), Dubai (EK Emirates), Doha (QR Qatar) and Abu Dhabi (EY Etihad).

The reason is very simple. No visa is required for connecting flights in these places, the airlines operated by them are good, and connecting flights are much cheaper than direct flights.

In IST, free accommodation benefit is provided if you are flying Turkish Airlines and connecting in Istanbul.

If you take business class, you will be provided with 2 days of free accommodation when connecting flights. The hotel is 5 stars.

If you take economy class, you will be provided with 1 day of free accommodation when connecting flights. The hotel is 4 stars.

You can apply if you stay in Istanbul for more than 20 hours. The application method is by email. Many people miss this benefit without knowing it.

Application email: freehotelchina@thy.com In IST, free travel benefits (TourIstanbul) Similarly, if you transfer in Istanbul and it is an international flight with a stopover time of 6-24 hours, you can participate in the free Touristanbul service to explore

Istanbul.

After connecting to an international flight with Turkish Airlines, just sign up directly at the hotel desk at the arrival terminal.

Depending on the time, there are 5 tours to take you to explore the city of Istanbul every day.

It's also completely free.

The itinerary is great. We go to all the classic attractions in Istanbul, such as the Blue Mosque, the Obelisk, the Serpentine Column, museums, etc... Even lunch is included for you for free.

Regarding participating in a free trip to Istanbul, you can read in detail on the following website.

/en-hk/flights/fly-different/touristanbul/In IST, the luggage delivery benefit (which is often ignored by many travelers) arrives in Istanbul. You can request that the luggage be sent directly to the hotel, and then travel by yourself.

When leaving Istanbul, you can ask for your luggage to be sent directly to the airport, and then stroll to the airport slowly by yourself.

This service is paid, and Miniport, a subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, provides luggage transfer services between Istanbul Ataturk Airport and partner hotels, exclusively for Turkish Airlines travelers.

Although it is paid, this service is very cheap. For example, sending a piece of luggage from the Four Seasons Hotel in Istanbul to the airport only costs 15.03 Turkish lira, which is almost less than 20 yuan. It is really cheap.

Link to this service: https://miniport.istanbul/enIST Airport duty-free shops accept UnionPay payments, and UnionPay cards starting with 62 offer a 10% discount for purchases over 150 euros. This is pretty good and worth recommending.

Regarding TK (Turkish Airlines), I still have feelings for TK.

Many years ago, I matched for TK’s gold card, which is also equivalent to the Star Alliance gold card.

Although I didn’t sit in TK after Match, I often used TK gold to enter and exit various Star Alliance lounges.

When I flew around the world at the beginning of this year, I finally flew on TK. I had a two-way flight from Buenos Aires-Istanbul-Shanghai, which happened to be TK's business class.

You can’t go to Türkiye without TK.

Because there are many direct flights, TK has direct flights to Istanbul from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei. Also because of its good aircraft, TK, once the dominant player in Europe and Asia, has been rated as the most popular among tourists by Skytrax for six consecutive years.

Europe's best airline.

When flying domestically to Türkiye, TK always flies with 77W.

I also recommend TK when traveling to Europe, Africa, and South America via connecting flights.

When I flew around the world, I flew with 6 airlines in 10 sectors, and the best experience was with TK.

The picture below is TK’s route map, radiating from Istanbul as the center.

Turkish Airlines' 77W business class cabin adopts the AuraEnhanced2-3-2 layout.