Avis du vol entre Istanbul et Prague en classe Economique avec Turkish Airlines

Feel welcome dear readers as this one is the last part of me and my brother´s trip to Seoul in September this year.
Fourth in the row this one is :
PRG - IST - http://flight-report.com/en/report-8076.html
IST - ICN - http://flight-report.com/en/report-8164.html
ICN - IST - http://flight-report.com/en/report-8459.html
IST - PRG - you are here
Last time we eneded at disembarking this beautiful A330 after our pleasant flight from Seoul´s Incheon airport
Being bussed to terminal is maybe not the experience I expected when arriving from such a destination onboard such a plane.

After entering terminal we went directly for transfer gates and the whole corridor felt pretty crowded

Few moments later our progress stopped as we reached a really long queue. It´s not something you are dreaming about when you are a bit tired after a long flight with another flight ahead of you. Thankfully we had more than 3 hours to spare, but it still took us about half an hour to pass crowded security, if not longer.

We took a look into some duty free shops and then headed for a breakfast to airport´s Burger King. It was crowded everywhere as it was and early morning peak. Later we went to the gates area to get some views of the action outside.
Mostly it were TK A330s who was leading the activity.

But there were also some interesting visitors, like this Turkmenistan 777

Our bird over an hour to departure

Mahan Air A310

Solomon Air B737 in the distance

Later the jetbridge was connected to our 737 and boarding started some 40 minutes before STD

I was quite excited during boarding because I knew there is a high chance of flying on a B737 with new Boeing Sky interior that day

And I was right! Our Boeing 737-800 was TC-JVF, in the air since May 2014 - the youngest plane I have ever flown on. Only 4 months old.
The interior just confirmed it with business and economy classes both looking very good.

A thumb up for PTVs integrated in every seat

The mood lighting

Legroom was good, but still slightly worse than at A320 on PRG-IST leg.

Heavy one parked to the right of us

Pushing back..

And this 777 was parked to the left of us

Taxiing past neverending sea of red tails. Once again, TK´s dominance at Ataturk is impressive

I think we were third in the queue for take off and then we massively accelerated to lift off few moments later.

We were offered some views of the city, but the Sun made it difficult to catch a nice picture

Then we made it through clouds and headed over The Black sea.

This flight´s offerings. We still had bland meals ordered so we didn´t pay much attention to the menu cards

IFE was not at such a level as on the A330, but it´s still enough for me. I really couldn´t ask for more on an intra-european flight. There was also not as big selection of movies etc., but no problem for me at all.

A bland meal selection so it was pretty tasteless.

I love B73x winglets

After the meal I dozed off and woke up just few moments ahead of overflying my hometown Brno

Well-known places to me

A little while later we started our descent towards Prague. Pilots used spoilers to slow the plane down at almost cruising altitude - not sure if I experienced this before

Here it was pretty sure it was going to be RWY 06 landing, new experience for me. Landings are usually done on oposite RWY 24. So we were offered with great views of the czech capital city.

City center around Vltava river

The main railway station. From here we later left for Brno

And PRG airport visible

Final right turn and it was once again clear picturing will be barely possible due to the direct Sun

Both approach and touchdown were smooth and we were taxiing around usually calm Prague airport.

After 6 days abroad we met again with this American visitor

We parked next to UP 737, which is EL AL´s lowcost carrier. I really find their livery little extravagant.

When leaving the aircraft there were passport checks at the end of jetbridge. Police has taken 2 people aside and others seemed to be trouble free. Except of our captain who left the aircraft and wasn´t allowed to board back withouth getting through security which he kind of didn´t understand, but in the end he didn´t have any other option.
After taking our baggages an airport personel reached us and asked us where were we flying from and what are we carrying. We answered and immediately were given green to leave the airport… by bus to the railway station, as usual.
Turkish / Korean adventure has come to an end, so see you next time!
Thanks for reading.
Michael