Hello
End of my weekend in Ankara
Summary
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PS802 : waw-kbp : http://flight-report.com/en/report/22344/Ukraine-International-PS802-Warsaw-WAW-Kiev-KBP
PS721 : kbp-esb : http://flight-report.com/en/report/22345/Ukraine-International-PS721-Kiev-KBP-Ankara-ESB
PS722 : esb-kbp : here
PS801 : kbp-waw : http://flight-report.com/fr/report/22367/Ukraine-International-PS801-Kiev-KBP-Warsaw-WAW
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Esenboğa airport is located 30 kms away from city center , two solutions left , city bus 442 or taxi
Taxi is expensive and prices are random so better to use the bus
However now the line 442 is managed by a private company , so they offer a kind of shuttle ,
Catched the bus from Kizilay's square , however now that call it "July the 15th's square "
lot of room for my legs
Left kizilay and reached ESB 30 minutes later
1st checkpoint
And iam in the terminal , international flights
Tamam nereye gitmem gerekiyor ???
Wait a bit for English version
Thats the schedule for international flights this Sunday
For a capital city , especially the capital of a very populated country , thats quite low traffic
How will be weather in Warsaw ???
Checkin , almost nobody
Same for immigration but agents are slow as fu**
Finally reached my gate
The window is not dirty but but our plane is
Oh , a new buddy in ESB
Get ready to use your flying blue card , since few months JV started flights to JED
Ok now i can go to the Comfort lounge .
Besides TK there are 2 lounges a Ankara
Millenium on the right
Today i will try Comfort Lounge
Le lounge is small , almost all these small details i like about a lounge are missing
In case you'd like to load your device
Check what they offer
Wanted to take a shower , but the guy told me its not possible cause h dont have the key !!
What else ??? Nothing , this lounge is just a waste of time
My breakfast
All time i was alone , but 30 minutes later a woman joined me , shes also flying to KBP
La TV is on , with Turkish version of CNN
Weather is going mad , 9°C / 48.2°F , is not normal in Anatolia
Crew just arrived , they left their hotel .and arrived after me
Was so busy writing this report that i missed the boarding call . Went quickly through the gateway
We will fly with a 737-800, was enough lucky to get a safety seat for free
Next to us , PC to VIE , then LH to MUC
Still working on my drafts
Some tips can help you to guess who was previous owner of this plane
Thats more funny to be here today , cause this plane started to fly in Turkey
Boarding done , 30 mins before take-off
Safety demonstration inn English/Ukrainian/Russian
taxing 15 mins later …
Take-off 5 mins before planned time
Esenboğa Airport has long runways and good location , so the airport was designated as one of the emergency landing sites for NASA's Space Shuttle
Take off quite slow
Moon is still from my side
Slowly get sunny , we can see the mountains and small villages around Ankara
Now we can head to the North
Start our descent to Boryspil
Ukraine is still under the snow
Landing and iam again in KBP
Taxing , and we get what i was expected , a paxbus
But they gave us only one , so it was crowded as hell
Really hard to take good pixs when bus is crowded and 354850 are staring at you
Left and reached the exit/transit area , we arrived same time as those flights
Few seconds to get my boarding pass at transfer desks , here is the queue
Finally they opened new checkpoints , but still wasnt enough to proceed everyone quickly
20 minutes later iam free
End !
