Oct 22
The plan had been to travel to Italy by ferry through Greece, but due to time constraints, we decided to fly. We bought a real ticket from Bodrum to Istanbul, $50 and a meal, and then intended to fly on Alitalia to Rome on an airline pass. The first part worked out fine, but the Rome leg presented a few problems. Alitalia said we had to book two days in advance and would not waver on that. Ok, your flight is way late anyway, so we will try Turkish Airlines. Our first attempt at Turkish was a "no". It was looking like it might be a ferry ride after all. The "no" person did send us to some one else. The next person, at the "standby desk", did not bat an eye and gave us tickets with seat assignments 2 hours before the flight was to leave. Seat assignments seems a normal thing to non-airline people, but for us free loaders, it is a rare thing to get a seat assignment that far in advance. It pretty much means you will get on the flight. Thank you Turkish Airlines and again the kind Turkish people. (Two hour flight, free booze, and a choice of entrees. Beat that, USAir.)
Not relevant to the story, but I do have to make a comment about Rome Funcianno Airport. It is the most un-user friendly airport with the most unfriendly personnal I have ever been to. That is probably why I try to avoid it. Ok, got that off my chest - lets move on.
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