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Connecting flights – when to choose Istanbul Airport

Are you traveling by connecting flights and want to find the best flight path? We can give you a hand! Here you find all routes where Istanbul Airport is the best place to connect.

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Istanbul Airport is one of the busiest airports in Europe, and a common pit stop on the way if you are not flying non-stop. In this guide we can help you find the routes where Istanbul Airport is the best connecting airport to choose. By picking the right connecting flight your flying will be more convenient and you can actually save a lot of time!

List of flights where Istanbul is the fastest connection airport

In the list below you can find routes where Flightroutes.com has determined Istanbul Airport to be the optimal connecting airport. The list contains flights chosen based on the following criteria:

  • Istanbul Airport is the fastest flight option by more than 15 minutes compared to a second option.
  • It's a connecting flight with one stop.
  • Both legs are flown by the same airline.
  • There are at least two possible connecting airports for this trip.

This list was updated on November 2023

From Tel Aviv-Yafo to Seattle
15 hours and 40 minutes
16 hours and 30 minutes
17 hours and 35 minutes
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From Paris to Dammam
9 hours and 25 minutes
9 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 45 minutes
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From Los Angeles to Mumbai
21 hours and 15 minutes
21 hours and 30 minutes
21 hours and 35 minutes
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From Singapore to Zagreb
15 hours
17 hours
17 hours and 10 minutes
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From Copenhagen to Mumbai
10 hours and 35 minutes
11 hours and 38 minutes
11 hours and 45 minutes
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From Mumbai to Copenhagen
11 hours and 5 minutes
12 hours
12 hours and 15 minutes
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From Singapore to Budapest
15 hours and 5 minutes
15 hours and 40 minutes
16 hours
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From Los Angeles to Cairo
16 hours and 20 minutes
16 hours and 45 minutes
17 hours and 25 minutes
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From Tokyo to Athens
17 hours and 10 minutes
17 hours and 30 minutes
18 hours and 10 minutes
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From Singapore to Belgrade
14 hours and 50 minutes
15 hours and 30 minutes
15 hours and 40 minutes
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From Izmir to Cairo
6 hours and 55 minutes
7 hours and 10 minutes
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From Budapest to Tokyo
15 hours and 50 minutes
16 hours and 20 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
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From Brussels to Dammam
9 hours and 15 minutes
9 hours and 45 minutes
9 hours and 50 minutes
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From Zurich to Nairobi
11 hours and 5 minutes
12 hours and 15 minutes
12 hours and 35 minutes
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From Rome to Kuala Lumpur
14 hours and 30 minutes
16 hours and 20 minutes
16 hours and 35 minutes
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From Barcelona to Kuala Lumpur
15 hours and 43 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
17 hours
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From Kuwait to Chicago
16 hours and 50 minutes
17 hours and 20 minutes
18 hours and 3 minutes
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From Mumbai to Vienna
10 hours
11 hours and 35 minutes
12 hours and 30 minutes
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From Trabzon to Belgrade
7 hours and 5 minutes
7 hours and 30 minutes
8 hours and 5 minutes
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From London to Karachi
10 hours and 50 minutes
12 hours and 30 minutes
13 hours and 28 minutes
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From Singapore to Sofia
14 hours and 10 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
17 hours and 40 minutes
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From Bahrain to Los Angeles
20 hours and 45 minutes
21 hours and 58 minutes
22 hours and 15 minutes
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From Trabzon to Cairo
7 hours and 45 minutes
8 hours and 25 minutes
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From Cairo to Seattle
16 hours and 50 minutes
18 hours and 34 minutes
19 hours and 45 minutes
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From Thessaloniki to Singapore
14 hours and 35 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
17 hours and 5 minutes
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From Dammam to Dusseldorf
9 hours and 25 minutes
9 hours and 55 minutes
10 hours and 5 minutes
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From Madrid to Kuala Lumpur
16 hours and 20 minutes
16 hours and 35 minutes
17 hours and 5 minutes
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From Copenhagen to Riyadh
8 hours and 50 minutes
9 hours and 20 minutes
9 hours and 50 minutes
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From Dusseldorf to Kuwait
8 hours and 30 minutes
9 hours
9 hours and 30 minutes
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From Antalya to Marseille
7 hours and 30 minutes
7 hours and 55 minutes
9 hours and 35 minutes
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From Singapore to Thessaloniki
14 hours and 5 minutes
16 hours and 20 minutes
18 hours and 48 minutes
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From Amman to Seattle
17 hours and 25 minutes
18 hours and 20 minutes
19 hours and 30 minutes
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From Bahrain to Hamburg
9 hours and 10 minutes
10 hours and 20 minutes
11 hours and 10 minutes
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From Karachi to Amsterdam
10 hours and 50 minutes
12 hours and 25 minutes
12 hours and 30 minutes
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From Singapore to Malta
16 hours and 15 minutes
17 hours and 50 minutes
18 hours and 5 minutes
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From Athens to Seoul
14 hours and 15 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
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From Antalya to Venice
6 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 55 minutes
7 hours and 25 minutes
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From Manila to Amsterdam
18 hours and 30 minutes
19 hours
19 hours and 20 minutes
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From Kayseri to Belgrade
6 hours and 20 minutes
7 hours and 20 minutes
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From Muscat to Prague
9 hours and 20 minutes
10 hours and 25 minutes
10 hours and 25 minutes
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From Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse to Dubai
8 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 58 minutes
10 hours and 35 minutes
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From Amman to Houston
17 hours and 50 minutes
19 hours and 25 minutes
20 hours
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From Berlin to Kuala Lumpur
15 hours and 5 minutes
16 hours and 25 minutes
17 hours and 20 minutes
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From Houston to Cairo
16 hours
16 hours and 50 minutes
17 hours
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From Bucharest to Izmir
5 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 5 minutes
6 hours and 40 minutes
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From Ankara to Mumbai
10 hours and 15 minutes
10 hours and 53 minutes
12 hours
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From Jeddah to Dusseldorf
8 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 5 minutes
9 hours and 30 minutes
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From Mumbai to Berlin
11 hours and 5 minutes
11 hours and 45 minutes
12 hours and 40 minutes
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From Manila to Rome
18 hours and 15 minutes
18 hours and 30 minutes
18 hours and 30 minutes
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From Rome to Jakarta
16 hours and 30 minutes
17 hours
17 hours and 10 minutes
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From Malta to Singapore
16 hours and 25 minutes
17 hours and 5 minutes
17 hours and 20 minutes
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From Geneva to Kuala Lumpur
15 hours and 20 minutes
16 hours and 35 minutes
17 hours and 40 minutes
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From Shanghai to Prague
16 hours and 5 minutes
17 hours and 15 minutes
17 hours and 15 minutes
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From Kuala Lumpur to Berlin
16 hours and 10 minutes
16 hours and 30 minutes
17 hours and 33 minutes
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From Zagreb to Bangkok
13 hours and 55 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
15 hours and 10 minutes
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From Bahrain to Birmingham
10 hours and 55 minutes
11 hours and 10 minutes
11 hours and 50 minutes
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From Cairo to Dallas
16 hours and 50 minutes
17 hours and 52 minutes
18 hours and 28 minutes
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From Brussels to Kuala Lumpur
15 hours and 35 minutes
16 hours and 45 minutes
17 hours and 20 minutes
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From Delhi to Venice
10 hours and 15 minutes
10 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours and 45 minutes
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From Bahrain to San Francisco
20 hours and 40 minutes
21 hours and 55 minutes
22 hours and 15 minutes
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From Los Angeles to Beirut
16 hours
17 hours and 48 minutes
18 hours and 30 minutes
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From New York to Bahrain
17 hours and 5 minutes
17 hours and 43 minutes
18 hours and 55 minutes
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From Hamburg to Kuwait
8 hours and 45 minutes
9 hours and 15 minutes
9 hours and 55 minutes
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From Bangkok to Belgrade
14 hours and 35 minutes
14 hours and 50 minutes
15 hours and 25 minutes
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From Doha to Hanover
9 hours and 50 minutes
12 hours and 15 minutes
12 hours and 45 minutes
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From Hamburg to Nairobi
11 hours
12 hours and 30 minutes
12 hours and 40 minutes
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From Tehran to New York
17 hours and 10 minutes
17 hours and 40 minutes
19 hours and 10 minutes
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From Seoul to Zagreb
16 hours and 10 minutes
16 hours and 30 minutes
17 hours and 55 minutes
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From Zurich to Lahore
10 hours and 55 minutes
11 hours and 40 minutes
12 hours and 15 minutes
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From Dammam to Prague
8 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours and 5 minutes
10 hours and 10 minutes
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From Nice to Abu Dhabi
9 hours and 40 minutes
10 hours and 25 minutes
11 hours and 55 minutes
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From Bahrain to Lisbon
11 hours and 15 minutes
11 hours and 40 minutes
11 hours and 40 minutes
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From Dallas to Lahore
20 hours and 45 minutes
22 hours and 55 minutes
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From Lahore to Athens
10 hours and 55 minutes
11 hours and 15 minutes
11 hours and 20 minutes
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From London to Zanzibar
13 hours and 20 minutes
15 hours and 50 minutes
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From Bahrain to Sarajevo
8 hours and 25 minutes
9 hours and 5 minutes
10 hours and 35 minutes
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From Zurich to Islamabad
9 hours and 35 minutes
12 hours and 20 minutes
12 hours and 35 minutes
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From Islamabad to Paris
10 hours and 40 minutes
12 hours and 5 minutes
12 hours and 40 minutes
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From Manila to Madrid
19 hours and 5 minutes
19 hours and 30 minutes
19 hours and 30 minutes
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From Hamburg to Kuala Lumpur
15 hours and 35 minutes
16 hours and 50 minutes
17 hours and 50 minutes
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From Islamabad to Zurich
12 hours and 5 minutes
12 hours and 25 minutes
13 hours and 15 minutes
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From Prague to Abu Dhabi
8 hours and 35 minutes
9 hours and 30 minutes
9 hours and 50 minutes
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From Manila to Barcelona
18 hours and 50 minutes
19 hours and 30 minutes
19 hours and 40 minutes
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From Ankara to Delhi
9 hours and 50 minutes
10 hours and 30 minutes
11 hours and 55 minutes
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From Tokyo to Sofia
16 hours and 40 minutes
17 hours and 35 minutes
19 hours and 20 minutes
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From Ercan to Berlin
6 hours and 45 minutes
7 hours and 35 minutes
8 hours
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From Zagreb to Shanghai
14 hours and 15 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
15 hours and 25 minutes
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From Belgrade to Bodrum
5 hours and 50 minutes
6 hours and 25 minutes
7 hours and 50 minutes
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From Dusseldorf to Kuala Lumpur
15 hours and 50 minutes
16 hours and 10 minutes
17 hours and 5 minutes
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From Lyon to Dammam
9 hours and 10 minutes
9 hours and 45 minutes
9 hours and 55 minutes
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From New York to Tbilisi
13 hours and 20 minutes
14 hours and 15 minutes
15 hours and 15 minutes
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From Kuwait to Hamburg
8 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours
10 hours and 25 minutes
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From Copenhagen to Kuwait
8 hours and 10 minutes
8 hours and 45 minutes
9 hours and 25 minutes
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From Bahrain to Houston
20 hours and 5 minutes
21 hours and 5 minutes
21 hours and 15 minutes
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From Milan to Islamabad
9 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours and 15 minutes
12 hours and 5 minutes
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From Copenhagen to Bahrain
8 hours and 55 minutes
9 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 55 minutes
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From Bologna to Seoul
15 hours and 30 minutes
16 hours
17 hours and 5 minutes
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From Copenhagen to Bodrum
7 hours and 30 minutes
8 hours
8 hours and 5 minutes
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