Booked with Turkish first flight Malaysian and no booking ref so no meal or seat prefs guidance pls

[KBNZ]

Long time lurker and first time poster! I booked Turkish airlines to fly MEL to BUD via KUL and IST - cheap business, which is great. However, my first flight from MEL is with Malaysia and just called and gave them my ticket no. but as there is no Malaysia booking ref they cannot make any changes to my flight and as a vego I was a little concerned, plus would love to know which seat I am in.

Has anyone ever been on a flight booked with Turkish and starting with Malaysia and was it ok checking in wise etc? Does anyone have a recent example of the MH148 menu 15:10 departure to KUL to confirm there was a vegetarian option? Apparently I can just check in at MEL and all will be ok, but this all feels a little strange. Maybe, I am used to being over-prepared!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Long time lurker and first time poster! I booked Turkish airlines to fly MEL to BUD via KUL and IST - cheap business, which is great. However, my first flight from MEL is with Malaysia and just called and gave them my ticket no. but as there is no Malaysia booking ref they cannot make any changes to my flight and as a vego I was a little concerned, plus would love to know which seat I am in.

Has anyone ever been on a flight booked with Turkish and starting with Malaysia and was it ok checking in wise etc? Does anyone have a recent example of the MH148 menu 15:10 departure to KUL to confirm there was a vegetarian option? Apparently I can just check in at MEL and all will be ok, but this all feels a little strange. Maybe, I am used to being over-prepared!

Hi and welcome to AFF!

Is your first flight with a TK flight number? You should be able to manage your booking on line, or call the Turkish call centre to request a special meal and/or seat.

If not, call MH back and say you don’t want to change the booking, just add a meal preference.

You are correct… just check-in at MEL and everything will be taken care of through to your final destination.

 

[MELso]

I'm afraid that a TK codeshare on MH is problematic for seat selection etc (at least it was for me ~3 years ago). Essentially TK and MH use different booking systems and therefore have different PNRs, and I never did find out a way to get hold of the PNR from either MH or TK.

Post in thread 'Advance seat Selection on MH KUL-SYD, sold as TKxx_x'

Mar 9, 2023

As someone who flew TK4809 (aka MH149 from KUL to MEL) in Y last October (on a mixed class fare), I couldn't find any way to do seat selection. Had to get boarding passes and seats allocated at the transfer desk at KUL (not IST which was our point of departure - so probably not Romania either). We were stuck down the back o' the bus (although this was still better than a 22.5 hour layover we were facing in BKK after TG rescheduled our BKK-MEL flight)...

Mind you, KUL is pretty empty these days so the queue at the transfer desk wasn't too bad.

(As a point of comparison, I...

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[KBNZ]

Hi and welcome to AFF!

Is your first flight with a TK flight number? You should be able to manage your booking on line, or call the Turkish call centre to request a special meal and/or seat.

If not, call MH back and say you don’t want to change the booking, just add a meal preference.

You are correct… just check-in at MEL and everything will be taken care of through to your final destination.

Hi, thanks MEL_Traveller,

I have contacted both TK and MH and they both only have their own info and neither can help unfortunately. I can manage all TK flights to make changes, no issue, but blocked from making any changes to the MH flight, as is MH with no booking number! Quite interesting.

Thank you for this reassurance, last time I took a flight with multiple different airlines was in the mid 2000s and was travel agent booked, and I did not even think about it back then!

I'm afraid that a TK codeshare on MH is problematic for seat selection etc (at least it was for me ~3 years ago). Essentially TK and MH use different booking systems and therefore have different PNRs, and I never did find out a way to get hold of the PNR from either MH or TK.

Post in thread 'Advance seat Selection on MH KUL-SYD, sold as TKxx_x'

Mar 9, 2023

As someone who flew TK4809 (aka MH149 from KUL to MEL) in Y last October (on a mixed class fare), I couldn't find any way to do seat selection. Had to get boarding passes and seats allocated at the transfer desk at KUL (not IST which was our point of departure - so probably not Romania either). We were stuck down the back o' the bus (although this was still better than a 22.5 hour layover we were facing in BKK after TG rescheduled our BKK-MEL flight)...

Mind you, KUL is pretty empty these days so the queue at the transfer desk wasn't too bad.

(As a point of comparison, I...

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All good, thanks! I will just get through this one flight, on the way home it seems to be Turkish all the way, so I will compare. I go to BUD on average once a year, so am trying out different cheap ways to get there and back on business!