Non-stop flights from Istanbul (IST)
Istanbul Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTBA), also known as Atatürk International Airport (Yesilköy International, is the largest airport in Turkey. It is Turkey's main international airport and serves the area of Marmara Region. Istanbul Airport has non-stop passenger flights scheduled to 290 destinations in 117 countries.
At present, there are 45 domestic flights from Istanbul.
The longest flight from Istanbul IST is a 7,076 mile (11,388 km) non-stop route to Mexico City MEX. This direct flight takes around 14 hours and 45 minutes and is operated by Turkish Airlines.
Airlines flying from Istanbul
In total there are 62 airlines flying from and to Istanbul. Most flights are operated by one of the following carriers:









Popular destinations from Istanbul
Below you can find a list of the most popular destinations from Istanbul, based on the number of scheduled flights for this month.






















Alternative airports near Istanbul
Below you can find a list of alternative airports to Istanbul (IST). The nearest airports to Istanbul (IST) are Istanbul (Sabiha) (SAW) and Tekirdağ (TEQ).
Intercontinental flights from Istanbul
Istanbul has a great network of flights to destinations all over the world.
The following is an overview of all non-stop intercontinental flights operating from Atatürk International Airport (Yesilköy International (IST).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to Europe
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance) has a significant network of flights from Istanbul to Europe.
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Graz (GRZ), Salzburg (SZG), Vienna (VIE), Prague (PRG), Bremen (BRE), Cologne-Bonn (CGN), Düsseldorf (DUS), Frankfurt (FRA), Friedrichshafen (FDH), Hamburg (HAM), Hanover (HAJ), Leipzig (LEJ), Munich (MUC), Nuremberg (NUE), Stuttgart (STR), Budapest (BUD), Warsaw (WAW), Basel Mulhouse Freiburg (BSL), Geneva (GVA), Zürich (ZRH), Minsk (MSQ), Sofia (SOF), Varna (VAR), Chișinău (KIV), Bucharest (OTP), Cluj-Napoca (CLJ), Constanța (CND), Kazan (KZN), Krasnodar (KRR), Moscow Vnukovo (VKO), Rostov (ROV), Saint Petersburg (LED), Samara (KUF), Sochi (AER), Ufa (UFA), Voronezh (VOZ), Kharkiv (HRK), Kherson (KHE), Kyiv (KBP), Lviv (LWO), Odessa (ODS), Zaporizhzhia (OZH), Billund (BLL), Copenhagen (CPH), Tallinn (TLL), Helsinki (HEL), Rovaniemi (RVN), Dublin (DUB), Riga (RIX), Vilnius (VNO), Oslo (OSL), Gothenburg (GOT), Stockholm (Arlanda) (ARN), Birmingham (BHX), Edinburgh (EDI), London Gatwick (LGW), London Heathrow (LHR), Manchester (MAN), Sarajevo (SJJ), Dubrovnik (DBV), Zagreb (ZAG), Athens (ATH), Thessaloniki (SKG), Bari (BRI), Bologna (BLQ), Catania (CTA), Milan (Malpensa) (MXP), Naples (NAP), Pisa (PSA), Rome (Fiumicino) (FCO), Venice Marco Polo (VCE), Malta (MLA), Podgorica (TGD), Lisbon (LIS), Porto (OPO), Skopje (SKP), Belgrade (BEG), Pristina (PRN), Ljubljana (LJU), Barcelona (BCN), Bilbao (BIO), Madrid (MAD), Málaga (AGP), Valencia (VLC), Brussels (BRU), Bordeaux (BOD), Lyon (LYS), Marseille (MRS), Nice (NCE), Paris (CDG), Strasbourg (SXB), Toulouse (TLS), Luxembourg City (LUX) and Amsterdam (AMS).
Air Namibia: seasonal flights to Frankfurt (FRA).
Lufthansa (Star Alliance): year-round to Frankfurt (FRA).
LOT (Star Alliance): year-round to Warsaw (WAW).
Belavia: year-round to Minsk (MSQ).
Air Moldova: year-round to Chișinău (KIV).
Tarom (SkyTeam): year-round to Bucharest (OTP).
Nordwind: seasonal flights to Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO), Saint Petersburg (LED) and Samara (KUF).
Pobeda: year-round to Kazan (KZN), Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) and Ufa (UFA).
Aeroflot (SkyTeam): year-round to Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO).
Ural Airlines: seasonal flights to Moscow Zhukovsky (ZIA).
SkyUp Airlines: year-round to Kyiv (KBP), Lviv (LWO), Odessa (ODS) and seasonal flights to Zaporizhzhia (OZH).
Ukraine Int.: year-round to Kyiv (KBP) and Odessa (ODS).
British Airways (Oneworld): year-round to London Heathrow (LHR).
Aegean (Star Alliance): year-round to Athens (ATH).
Pakistan: year-round to Athens (ATH).
Montenegro Airlines: seasonal flights to Tivat (TIV).
Air Serbia: year-round to Belgrade (BEG).
Monarch: seasonal flights to Tirana (TIA).
Air France (SkyTeam): year-round to Paris (CDG).
Transavia: year-round to Nantes (NTE).
KLM (SkyTeam): year-round to Amsterdam (AMS).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to the US
Turkish Airlines is currently the only airline flying non-stop from Istanbul to the United States. They fly year-round to Atlanta (ATL), Boston (BOS), Chicago (ORD), Houston (IAH), Los Angeles (LAX), Miami (MIA), New York (EWR), New York City (JFK), San Francisco (SFO) and Washington (IAD).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to Canada
Turkish Airlines is currently the only airline flying non-stop from Istanbul to Canada. They fly year-round to Montreal (YUL), Toronto (YYZ) and Vancouver (YVR).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to South America
Turkish Airlines is currently the only airline flying non-stop from Istanbul to Southern America. They fly year-round to São Paulo (GRU), Bogotá (BOG) and Caracas (CCS).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to Central America
Turkish Airlines is currently the only airline flying non-stop from Istanbul to Central America. They fly seasonal to Cancún (CUN), year-round to Mexico City (MEX) and seasonal to Panama City (PTY).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to the Caribbean
Turkish Airlines is currently the only airline flying non-stop from Istanbul to the Caribbean. They fly year-round to Havana (HAV).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to Africa
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance) has a good presence on the African continent with a number of non-stop flights.
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Douala (DLA), Yaoundé (NSI), N'Djamena (NDJ), Kinshasa (FIH), seasonal flights to Malabo (SSG), year-round flights to Libreville (LBV), seasonal flights to Pointe-Noire (PNR), year-round flights to Djibouti (JIB), Asmara (ASM), Addis Ababa (ADD), Mombasa (MBA), Nairobi (NBO), Mauritius (MRU), Kigali (KGL), Mahé (SEZ), Dar es Salaam (DAR), seasonal flights to Kilimanjaro (JRO), year-round flights to Zanzibar (ZNZ), seasonal flights to Entebbe (EBB), year-round flights to Lusaka (LUN), Algiers (ALG), Constantine (CZL), Oran (ORN), Alexandria (HBE), Cairo (CAI), Hurghada (HRG), Luxor (LXR), Sharm el-Sheikh (SSH), Casablanca (CMN), Marrakech (RAK), Khartoum (KRT), Tunis (TUN), Cape Town (CPT), Johannesburg (JNB), Cotonou (COO), Ouagadougou (OUA), seasonal flights to Abidjan (ABJ), Banjul (BJL), year-round flights to Accra (ACC), seasonal flights to Conakry (CKY), year-round flights to Bamako (BKO), Nouakchott (NKC), Niamey (NIM), Abuja (ABV), Lagos (LOS), Port Harcourt (PHC), Dakar (DSS) and seasonal flights to Freetown (FNA).
Ethiopian Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Addis Ababa (ADD).
Air Algerie: year-round to Algiers (ALG), Annaba (AAE), Constantine (CZL) and Oran (ORN).
Egyptair (Star Alliance): year-round to Cairo (CAI).
Royal Air Maroc (Oneworld): year-round to Casablanca (CMN).
Badr Airlines: seasonal flights to Khartoum (KRT).
Nouvelair: year-round to Tunis (TUN).
Tunisair: year-round to Tunis (TUN).
Buraq Air: year-round to Tripoli (MJI).
Libyan Airlines: year-round to Tripoli (MJI).
Libyan Wings: seasonal flights to Tripoli (MJI).
Air Namibia: seasonal flights to Johannesburg (JNB).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to the Middle-East / Western Asia
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance) has a strong network of non-stop flights to the Middle-East.
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Baku (GYD), Ganja (KVD), Nakhchivan (NAJ), Bahrain Island (BAH), Ercan, Northern Cyprus (ECN), Batumi (BUS), Tbilisi (TBS), Al Najaf (NJF), Baghdad (BGW), Basra (BSR), Erbil (EBL), Sulaymaniyah (ISU), Tel Aviv (TLV), Amman (AMM), Aqaba (AQJ), Kuwait City (KWI), Beirut (BEY), Muscat (MCT), Doha (DOH), Dammam (DMM), Jeddah (JED), Medina (MED), Riyadh (RUH), Adana (ADA), Adıyaman (ADF), Ağrı (AJI), Amasya (MZH), Ankara (ESB), Antalya (AYT), Batman (BAL), Bingöl (BGG), Bodrum (BJV), Canakkale (CKZ), Dalaman (DLM), Denizli (DNZ), Diyarbakır (DIY), Edremit / Balıkesir (EDO), Elazığ (EZS), Erzincan (ERC), Erzurum (ERZ), Gaziantep (GZT), Gazipaşa (GZP), Hakkari (YKO), Hatay (HTY), Iğdır (IGD), Isparta (ISE), Izmir (ADB), Kahramanmaraş (KCM), Kars (KSY), Kastamonu (KFS), Kayseri (ASR), Konya (KYA), Kütahya (KZR), Malatya (MLX), Mardin (MQM), Muş (MSR), Nevşehir (NAV), Ordu / Giresun (OGU), Samsun (SZF), Şanlıurfa (GNY), Siirt (SXZ), Sinop (NOP), Sirnak (NKT), Sivas (VAS), Trabzon (TZX), Usak (USQ), Van (VAN), Zonguldak (ONQ), Abu Dhabi (AUH), Dubai (DXB) and Dubai (Sharjah) (SHJ).
Azerbaijan: seasonal flights to Baku (GYD).
Gulf Air: year-round to Bahrain Island (BAH).
Fly Baghdad: seasonal flights to Baghdad (BGW).
Iraqi Airways: year-round to Al Najaf (NJF), Baghdad (BGW), Basra (BSR) and Erbil (EBL).
Royal Jordanian (Oneworld): year-round to Amman (AMM).
Jazeera Airways: year-round to Kuwait City (KWI).
Kuwait Airways: year-round to Kuwait City (KWI).
Onur Air: year-round to Kuwait City (KWI).
Middle East (SkyTeam): year-round to Beirut (BEY).
Oman Air: year-round to Muscat (MCT).
Qatar Airways (Oneworld): year-round to Doha (DOH).
Saudi Arabian (SkyTeam): year-round to Jeddah (JED), Medina (MED) and Riyadh (RUH).
Pegasus: year-round to Izmir (ADB).
Emirates: year-round to Dubai (DXB).
Etihad Airways: year-round to Abu Dhabi (AUH).
UTair: seasonal flights to Grozny (GRV).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to India / South Asia
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance) has a significant network of flights from Istanbul to India or Southern Asia.
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Kabul (KBL), Mazar-e-Sharif (MZR), Dhaka (DAC), Mumbai (BOM), New Delhi (DEL), Isfahan (IFN), Mashhad (MHD), Shiraz (SYZ), Tabriz (TBZ), Tehran (IKA), Malé (MLE), Kathmandu (KTM), Islamabad (ISB), Karachi (KHI) and Lahore (LHE).
Kam Air: seasonal flights to Kabul (KBL).
IndiGo Airlines: year-round to New Delhi (DEL).
Iran Air: year-round to Tehran (IKA).
Mahan Air: year-round to Tehran (IKA).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to China
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Beijing (PEK), Guangzhou (CAN), Shanghai (PVG) and Xi'an (XIY).
China Southern (SkyTeam): year-round to Beijing Daxing (PKX) and Wuhan (WUH).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to Japan
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Osaka (KIX), Tokyo (NRT) and Tokyo (HND).
ANA (Star Alliance): year-round to Tokyo (HND).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to East Asia
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Hong Kong (HKG), Ulaanbaatar (ULN), Seoul (ICN) and Taipei (TPE).
Asiana Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Seoul (ICN).
Korean Air (SkyTeam): year-round to Seoul (ICN).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to South-East Asia
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Denpasar (DPS), Jakarta (CGK), Kuala Lumpur (KUL), Manila (MNL), Singapore (SIN), Bangkok (BKK), Phuket (HKT), Hanoi (HAN) and Ho Chi Minh City (SGN).
Singapore Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Singapore (SIN).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to Central Asia
Turkish Airlines (Star Alliance): year-round to Almaty (ALA), Bishkek (FRU), Yekaterinburg (SVX), Dushanbe (DYU), Ashgabat (ASB), Samarkand (SKD) and Tashkent (TAS).
Air Astana: year-round to Almaty (ALA) and Atyrau (GUW).
Scat Air: seasonal flights to Aktau (SCO) and Shymkent (CIT).
Avia Traffic: seasonal flights to Bishkek (FRU).
Somon Air: seasonal flights to Dushanbe (DYU).
Uzbekistan Airways: year-round to Samarkand (SKD) and seasonal flights to Tashkent (TAS).
Non-stop flights from Istanbul to Australia / New Zealand / Oceania / the Pacific
Currently there are no direct services between Istanbul and Oceania, you will need to change planes along the way.