Hey I've just found some amazingly cheap flights from UK to Vancouver with Turkish Airlines. These are substantially cheaper than canadian affair, air transat ect. Only catch is there is a stop at istanbul. Has anyone had experience with this airline, any hidden catches because this just seems to good to be true!

Surely going to instanbul is going way ou of the way to come back on yourself?, wouldn't that be really long light?

They have a huge advertising campaign going on in the UK at the moment using US basketball stars, can't tell you more than that though.

Where are these flights as I have looked on the Turkish airlines website and can not find flights from UK to Vancouver even via instanbul

It might be a nice stopover

Popping over to Istanbul for lunch makes one sound rich.

It might be worth it for the right price and/or depending where they fly from in the UK.

I did it via Amsterdam once and Paris another time, but that was from Bristol to Montreal. It was no more expensive than other flight availability at that time and it saved having to go to Gatwick or Heathrow.

I'm going via Amsterdam in March, it saved about £600 and with scihpol being so big the layover time gets eaten up by moving from one terminal to the next. So in the big scheme of things it
is no real hassle

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It doesn't appear that Turkish Airlines flies out of Vancouver, Toronto yes, Vancouver No. Mind KLM is having a cheap sale of Vancouver/Istanbul return for the spring.

i found the flights through sky scanner, for a family of 4 its over a grand cheaper.

I can't seem to find anything particularly cheap going from Toronto to the UK :-( though given the crazy taxes at Pearson I'm hardly likely to!

You can have a free daytime hotel room or a tour of Istanbul thrown in too

Just found Canadian Affair have some special deals on, as low as £199 pp including taxes one way, provided you are flying on the specific dates it lists (it says each way but if you uncheck the box to have 1 way, it adds £20 to the overall fare).

http://www.canadianaffair.com/en/flight-special-offers/

HATE those ads! Definitely up there for most annoying of the year.

If there's a significant cost saving for going via Istanbul, tacking a few extra hours on a transatlantic journey is no big deal. You ought to consider the door-to-door times of each alternative rather than the total flying time.

Depending upon where you live in Canada, you may have to get used to not being able to take a direct flight between points A & B transatlantic. As an example, in the summer I can fly direct from St John's to London in about 4 1/2 hrs, (In an A319!) because Air Canada offer a seasonal direct flight. Out of season flying is a minimum via Halifax & in my last trip in December I routed via Toronto outbound and Ottawa inbound. The exigencies of timetables meant that 12 hours or so after leaving my house I was flying back over it. (Although I was asleep by that point).

More pertinently, TK is a Star Alliance carrier so you can earn aeroplan points and AC status which is useful because once you are here, you are likely to have to fly AC some times. From what I've read on flyer forums TK gets reasonable reviews.

At the end of the day its about the value of your time. If you want the shortest possible flight, you are going scheduled direct and it will cost more. If you have the time and are prepared to sit on planes for longer then a routing such as TK via Istanbul works if it saves money.

Yep. My additional flight time/transfers for Montreal via Amsterdam and the other time for Paris were less than the time involved in coaching from Bristol to Gatwick.

Not on the way back though as the Amsterdam-Bristol flight was cancelled and replaced with one 6 hours later.

Ha. And I was annoyed at a coach trip that passed about 100 yards from home, but I had to stay on until the coach station and then taxi back. (although the driver did let me out with suitcase once)