Turkish Airlines A350-900 Business Class Review: Istanbul (IST) to Chicago (ORD)

I recently took a Business Class flight on one of Turkish Airlines' A350-900s from Istanbul to Chicago. Come along with me to see everything I experienced, including the cabin layout, the pod and seat, food, amenities, inflight entertainment, and more. Also, stick around until the end of the video to learn how much I paid for my flight.

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📕 Chapters:
0:00: Introduction
0:50 Flight Day Begins
2:23: Cabin and Seat Tour
7:12 Menu and Amenity Kit
10:00 Takeoff
12:42 Bathroom Tour
14:00 Breakfast
15:15 Naptime!
16:12 Inflight Entertainment
17:56 Dinner
20:05 Final Thoughts and Landing
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[michaelb]

I flew business class round trip Chicago to Istanbul a couple years ago. It was fantastic in every respect, especially the wonderful cabin crew and amazing catering. The seat area was very comfortable and secluded. I highly recommend Turkish Airlines.

[diannewi]

Turkish is by far my favorite airline from the U.S. to Europe. Your voice and words are professional and soothing. I really enjoyed this review.

[CMNT]

Turkish is one of my favourite airlines!The service, food and entertainment is great even in economy

[bestdjintown]

Turkish, Especially for long haul flights is worth every penny. Even the economy class. The food, the hospitality, staff, all 5 stars. Thanks for the great video.

[asliekincii]

Hii 🙋🏼‍♀️ Flight Attendant here ☺️ it is really nice to hear that you enjoyed your flight ✈️ i always watch flight review videos this was my first time one of yours your voice is so calming 😊 For the troley part please take your time and do not feel to rush😌 or you can always ask for a mix plate for everything to taste😋 maybe we will fly together next time 💕

[kadiryarcin]

Turkish Airlines is the best of the best, the refreshments, the staff, everything is perfect

[ezilmez]

Turkish airline is one of the very best airlines if not the best. Amazing.

[jesuisrobert]

Absolutely worth it. The business lounge in Istanbul along with business class flight service is exceptional

[EvanSather]

As a Chicago native who also did the Istanbul to Chicago direct flight back in May (except it was in Business Class on a Boeing 777), this video made me so happy to watch. I was surprised your flight took an hour longer than mine did. I'm so glad you also chose the lamb shank for dinner. I've never eaten so well on a flight in all my life. I also still have my little fake candle. Good job making me want to return to Istanbul! 😁

[heidarzadeh]

I have been flying Turkish airlines for some time now. it is great and the chef serving dinner is the high light of my flight. glad to see the new business class. the old ones were outdated. I would definitely recommend it.

[KenanTurkiye]

Heres something off topic that you may find interesting. :)

The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird
the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)

In the past 40 years 37 countries have changed their name, partially or fully.
Obviously one can not change the name of an apple or an orange etc in other languages,
but country names are like peoples' individual names, so if you're named John we don't call you Karen. :)

Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.

The name it self has a suffix, '-iye', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',
just like the Latin suffix of '-ia', which exists in such country names like
Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Indones-ia etc.
Basically, the use of '-iye/-ia' is the same as the the use of '-land' suffix in country names like
Ire(Eire)-land, Po(le)-land, Eng(Anglo)-land and so on and so on.

Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).

The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish been over 10, 000 years is much older than Latin which is around 1300 years old.

Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble (to sound like) 'Türkiye'
we got various spellings like;

Turq-uía (in Spanish),
Turch-ia (in Italian),
Turq-uie (in French)
Turk-ei (in German)
Turk-ey (in English)

Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as turkey was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named turkey....

...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird 'Turkey Fowl' to define 'Turkish Chicken'...

....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.

In time you don't get to call the harehound simply as Greek or you don't call the terrier Britirsh, or shepherd as simply German,
but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just 'Turkey' and later 'turkey', and this went on for hundreds of years.

Now in modern times, this caused confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on an atlas.

Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )

So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )

Best wishes. ;)

[uzairibnuri]

Recently flew Istanbul-San Francisco in Biz on the A350 and Cape Town-Istanbul in Biz on the 789. Both were great flights. I believe Turkish Airlines will only get better and better. Already, they have ironed out past inefficiencies.
And as per another comment, I have learned to study the menu carefully, so that when the trolly stops in front of me, Ive got my act together and I'm not uhhh-ing and sputtering, lol.
Thanks for your great review. Easy to understand and good photography

[sandahildebrand]

Wow! Turkish Airlines for the win! Even their windows appeared clean!

[mustafatukat]

Love flying with Turkish Airlines. Always awesome experience! Will fly again from Atlanta to Germany via stop in Istanbul in a few days…

[itsjustnotright]

Turkish Ailines has become my new favourite to fly home to 🇿🇦. It's a very long flight broken into two legs 14h and 8h with a 8h layover. So the flights were great with meals tasty and memorable. The layover at Istanbul International was super, if long, and allowed for shopping and leg stretching 🤭. ❤ the airline and recommended both economy and business class to anywhere.

[johnclarke]

The segments are perfectly-paced, and engaging. I'm enjoying your videos a lot.

[juanitafurtado]

I am thinking of flying Turkish in business class to Isranbul next year & have been watching YouTube videos. This is by far the best review. So informative- everything I need to know. I think your 1st appetizer was caviar? And maybe your middle dessert was a merengue. Anyway, this was great!

[kenv]

Love your video. Almost like you are reading a book or telling a story. Turkish is one of my favorite airlines in business class long-haul and short-haul. They have some of the best food I've ever had in my thousands of flights I've taken. I love the trolleys, but like you, I feel pressure in making my choices. And, I agree service is very attentive, but not overly friendly. Very efficient.

[detchicago]

Your review was excellent and so very helpful ! I am deciding which airlines to fly to Türkiye next May. Thank you!

[mik-]

Wow your review is amazing
You showed a lot of things that other reviewer are not showing like the leg room (zoom in). Thank you very much for your hard work