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Will Turkish Airlines board me to Damascus without a visa number?
German passport, IST–DAM late October on Turkish Airlines. Online check-in will not finish unless I type a visa number. I mailed the Berlin mission twice. Nothing. Phone just rings.
I keep reading that Syria stamps on arrival and that you pay cash at the desk. Fine — that is not what the airline form is asking. I do not want to find this out at the gate with a suitcase.
Has anyone actually been boarded on TK this summer with no pre-issued visa? If they bounce me, is shifting the same week to Beirut the sane backup?
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Waleed Al-HasanRéponse de la rédaction
The Syrian stamp and the Istanbul check-in desk are different jobs. Most German passports pay cash at DAM or at Masnaa and walk. That does not force Turkish Airlines to board you if their screen wants a visa number.
Independents this summer still report TK, AJet, Royal Jordanian and DanAir applying visa-on-arrival correctly. Flydubai is the one that publishes its own “OK to board” list and has bounced people. I will not promise your October flight.
If online check-in demands a number, go to the airport with the passport. Get the airline to say in writing they will board a visa-on-arrival passenger. If they will not, do not argue Timatic at the gate. Change the ticket to Beirut or Amman and use the land window.
Berlin will not issue you a tourist visa. That mission is not the desk that stamps.
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