Flight with Qatar Airways was perfect. I had a 9 hour connection and booked a city tour at the Discover Qatar desk in Duty Free. You can also pre-book on their website www.discoverqatar.qa which I will use next time. The city tour was very professionally run, taking around 3 hours in a comfortable coach. The walking tour of Souq Waqif was the most interesting. I would highly recommend it.

We had a 45 minute connection time which we were concerned was short, Austrian Airline staff at Heathrow were slightly reassuring but did not seem 100% confident. The flight to Vienna was delayed about 15 minutes which was worrying but we arrived with about 25 minutes till departure of next flight, the change over was not long as there was no passport control and it was just a shortish walk between gates. Also the plane did not leave for another 20 minutes I think so was fine but would have been reassuring to hear from staff before that there was no passport control and that it would be that easy rather than just that we would be fine.

My flight was scheduled at 6:35 from DAC to LHR. There was 1 stop at IST and the transit time was 2 Hours 35 minutes. The flight schedule was as followed:

TK713 Economy class
27 April, 2023, 06:35 Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
27 April, 2023, 12:15 Istanbul Airport

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27 April, 2023, 14:50 Istanbul Airport
27 April, 2023, 16:45 London Heathrow Airport T2

As this was my first time travelling internationally, I intentionally took this flight for longer transit hours. But the flight was delayed from DAC and took off at 8:00. The plane landed on 13:40 at IST. I reached gate A11 at 14:50 but was denied boarding because it was closed by then. I came back to the Turkish Airlines help desk and told them about my situation. They said that I had 70 minutes to board the next plane but I couldn't make it because of my own delay (It's clearly written on the ticket that boarding closes 20 mins before take off so technically I had 50 minutes)!

I told them that the... read more