I was not let into this 3rd world country as I had no return ticket!
I could buy a ticket to anywhere else on the spot but instead I was detained and sent back the same route (but without passport – its being held and passed onto the other agent until final destination).
The ground crew forced me to sign a piece of paper stating I cannot afford a flight when departing Cancun (still they said that my luggage is in the airplane, totally untrue as I had no tags no boarding pass etc).
– They did get that to me eventually and brought the check-in bags and it was the last ones to be loaded (4 pieces)!
– I had no access to the my phones untill I was given those back by the aircraft door.
Such things happening to a Business Class passenger of Turkish Airlines!
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Update 1: 13:07 24th of March 2023 local time in Istambul
I’m with no passport its being held until the destination, all thru the journey I was being assuered I will get it back (1. In the Airplane, 2. When landed). I finally asked someone from the ground employees and they said I will only get it back after landing.
I tried to upgrade my ticket to business class in order to get thru security (I do not hold my boarding pass to the destination airport) – hence tried this hack 🙂 Well turns out – not possible on this “passenger status” – when I’m reading that piece of paper now, it says I’m being deported. Its free but comes with no freedom.
Oh yeah, got called out by my lastname and got a free sandwitch, small pepsi and a water; just after 6 hours of waiting near the Turkish Airlines transfer desk (its before security checkpoint, so not much stuff here).
Also since I have no passport I cannot buy internet access, luckily I got a few phones and phone numbers hence getting 1 hour free on each number (If I’d like to buy a package 9 EUR / day that would be nice, I did try – its showing put your payment information [BUT WHERE = ITS NOT BEING DISPLAYED])
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Update 2: 14:12 24th of March 2023 local time in Istambul
as promised the screenshot, using my last 4th number now… As you can see the payment information does not load, weird…
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Also on the airplane flying to and from Mexico the internet was not usuable by me. I saw others using it without problems though.
WEIRD! I would probably get that return ticket when I would be able to do so and / or talk with people or what not…
Update 3: 16:40 24th of March 2023 local time:
I was able to finally connect paid for 2 hours…
I did some duty free shopping, having someone from Turkish Airline that holds your passport and boarding pass though.
Update 4: 20:57 24th of March 2023 local time:
Made it to the hotel, just chilling now, ordered pizza having some drinks and watching football!
Its a hell of a story not everything is being disclosed here obviously.