This Sunday, on 22nd Jan 2012,
I got stuck at Esenboga Airport, Ankara due to a cancelled flight,
which was planned to be performed from Ankara to Siirt, a south-eastern
province of Turkey.
Everything was going nice and sweet until when we were informed that our flight to Siirt had been cancelled. No explanation, no logical reason! The lady speaking continuously at the airport was informing passengers saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, pay attention, please! Borajet Airlines flight number TK-9030 to Siirt has been cancelled due to bad weather conditions." It sounds very annoying and frustrating, doesn't it? At METU, everybody left the university around Friday or Saturday, but yours is postponed one day more, that is Monday.
After this madding announcement, everybody left the waiting lodge and led to the ticket sale's counter to learn what to do then. The man at the back side of the counter was alone himself when I arrived and asked him to cancel and return my ticket. But later, I called my dad and kindly requested him to learn if there is a bus going to Siirt from Ankara. The time was about 2 p.m. and when my dad called back telling me there was one at 3.30 p.m., I did not think that I would make it to AŞTİ (Ankara Intercity Transportation Bus Terminal) till that time. There was a long queue in front of Turkish Airlines ticket sale's counter but I resisted that I would reach to the front side at all cost. Waited, waited and waited... Time was ticking away, such a miserable me at that time.
I was very tired, when it was finally my turn. I gave my boarding card and the lady sitting there said my name was not on the list. I went back to other counter, which is a trademark of Turkish Airlines, and they came to help. When I eventually learnt that there was a flight to Batman, very near to Siirt, in the following day, Monday at 9.25 a.m., I felt quite relieved.
This was the first time that I faced such a chaotic case at the airport. I happened to miss my airplane in Diyarbakır, but I had never seen my flight as "cancelled" on the information screen. Here is the video that describes my situation at Esenboga, Ankara on this Sunday. It is an advertisement of an application optimized for Android and iPhone cell phones. I know I went beyond the word limitation, as I couldn't help myself but write this in detail. May God never make me face such cases again! :)
Everything was going nice and sweet until when we were informed that our flight to Siirt had been cancelled. No explanation, no logical reason! The lady speaking continuously at the airport was informing passengers saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, pay attention, please! Borajet Airlines flight number TK-9030 to Siirt has been cancelled due to bad weather conditions." It sounds very annoying and frustrating, doesn't it? At METU, everybody left the university around Friday or Saturday, but yours is postponed one day more, that is Monday.
After this madding announcement, everybody left the waiting lodge and led to the ticket sale's counter to learn what to do then. The man at the back side of the counter was alone himself when I arrived and asked him to cancel and return my ticket. But later, I called my dad and kindly requested him to learn if there is a bus going to Siirt from Ankara. The time was about 2 p.m. and when my dad called back telling me there was one at 3.30 p.m., I did not think that I would make it to AŞTİ (Ankara Intercity Transportation Bus Terminal) till that time. There was a long queue in front of Turkish Airlines ticket sale's counter but I resisted that I would reach to the front side at all cost. Waited, waited and waited... Time was ticking away, such a miserable me at that time.
I was very tired, when it was finally my turn. I gave my boarding card and the lady sitting there said my name was not on the list. I went back to other counter, which is a trademark of Turkish Airlines, and they came to help. When I eventually learnt that there was a flight to Batman, very near to Siirt, in the following day, Monday at 9.25 a.m., I felt quite relieved.
This was the first time that I faced such a chaotic case at the airport. I happened to miss my airplane in Diyarbakır, but I had never seen my flight as "cancelled" on the information screen. Here is the video that describes my situation at Esenboga, Ankara on this Sunday. It is an advertisement of an application optimized for Android and iPhone cell phones. I know I went beyond the word limitation, as I couldn't help myself but write this in detail. May God never make me face such cases again! :)
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