Flight Log of Turkish Airlines Flight 2009 from Nevşehir to Istanbul Ataturk on August 28th, 2016
Time to head back to Istanbul from Cappadocia.
The Cappadocia region has two airports, Nevsehir and Kayseri; also, Istanbul has two airports, Ataturk and Gokcen. Since we planned three full days at Cappadocia, we would be arriving at night, which meant we preferred the Ataturk Airport with its metro access much more than the distant Gokcen airport on the other side of the channel. Although Nevsehir Airport was closer to Goreme than Kayseri, it doesn’t make too much a difference, as both airports require shuttle services at similar prices. After that, our only choice seemed to be the three times daily service of Turkish Airlines to/from Nevsehir Airport.
I had to say, since both ends of our flight were at the better airports, plus Turkish Airlines was not the big-sale-onboard budget carriers, the price of our ticket did seemed a little bit high compared with our other transportations in Turkey.
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It seemed that Turkish airports did have heightened securities after the blast at Ataturk Airport. Our shuttle van had to go through bomb-detecting officers before entering this airport of rather humble size.
Nevsehir Airport’s so small that it consists of some chairs outside check-in counters, a security checkpoint and some more chairs. The bad thing was that, there seemed to be more passengers than chairs.
It’s the first time that I had to stand in the airport to wait for a flight.
Since Nevsehir Airport was so small, there was no need for shuttle buses, as passengers walk themselves to/from the plane.
Actually, this A320 was serviced with two stairs for speedy transition. However, most passengers, after taking photos with the plane (since there was some beautiful sunset in the sky, and nobody cares since Nevsehir Airport was so small), all seemed to prefer cramming for the front door.
By the way, I checked FlightAware.com and found that August 28th seemed to be the only day when Turkish Airlines operated this route with an A320, out of the usual A319’s. I guess that’s something to do with the Sunday night traffic.
The shopping magazine seemed to encourage everyone to buy stuff with miles. But it also offered quotes in USD, which valued the miles a less than one cent per mile (of course, you get more than that with award flights). And since nothing’s priced competitively in the quotes of USD, nobody seemed to be interested in anything.
The irony is that, I feel the title of this month’s magazine could be “victory of people’s well” regardless of whether the coup succeeded or not.
I had to say the leg space was pretty “awesome” in my standard.
Since this airport doesn’t have parallel taxiways, we taxied to the end of the runway and turned back.
The river that flows through Avanos at its widest.
I picked a window seat on the left, so as to enjoy glows of sunset.
That sandwich has cheese in it, which tastes very nice.
Usually before landing, the cabin crew would just dim the cabin lights. But during this flight, the cabin crew just shut down all the lights completely, for which I was more than delighted since I could snap some magnificent shots of Istanbul at night.
Our plane was parked on some distant apron, so again the shuttle bus took us on a tour of Ataturk Airport.
The good and unique thing about Ataturk Airport shuttle buses was that, their air-conditioner seemed to emit perfumes at the same time. I'm sure that's one of the ways to make a 10-minute standing tour of an airport "classy".
Our shuttle hit some sort of traffic jam, so I was able to snap this shot with half-second exposure about other service vehicles passing by.
The crowded domestic baggage claim area of Ataturk Airport gave me the first impression of an airport that’s eager for expansion (but couldn’t due to space limitation). It’s not common for me to see three or four flights scheduled for the same belt. Thank God, I was able to locate a few seats not far from the belts.
Then we headed for the metro station, which consisted of a long walk passing along international terminal. Thank God, we didn’t bump into any bomb-wielding terrorists.
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