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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 May 2024

From Singapore to Zagreb
14 hours and 35 minutes
18 hours and 10 minutes
18 hours and 30 minutes
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From Budapest to Tokyo
15 hours and 50 minutes
17 hours and 20 minutes
17 hours and 30 minutes
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From Bahrain to Zurich
9 hours and 5 minutes
9 hours and 20 minutes
9 hours and 35 minutes
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From Singapore to Budapest
14 hours and 40 minutes
16 hours and 45 minutes
17 hours and 35 minutes
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From Colombo to New York
20 hours and 10 minutes
21 hours and 30 minutes
21 hours and 50 minutes
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From Copenhagen to Kuala Lumpur
14 hours and 50 minutes
15 hours and 45 minutes
15 hours and 50 minutes
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From Dammam to Milan
9 hours and 5 minutes
9 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 50 minutes
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From Athens to Tokyo
15 hours and 30 minutes
16 hours and 20 minutes
16 hours and 25 minutes
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From Nairobi to Copenhagen
11 hours and 30 minutes
12 hours and 40 minutes
12 hours and 50 minutes
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From Dusseldorf to Mumbai
10 hours and 35 minutes
11 hours and 50 minutes
12 hours and 25 minutes
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From Dammam to New York
16 hours and 25 minutes
17 hours and 10 minutes
17 hours and 30 minutes
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From Dammam to Munich
8 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 20 minutes
9 hours and 20 minutes
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From Cairo to Los Angeles
17 hours and 5 minutes
17 hours and 55 minutes
18 hours and 30 minutes
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From Dammam to Vienna
8 hours and 50 minutes
9 hours and 25 minutes
9 hours and 30 minutes
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From Tokyo to Athens
17 hours and 5 minutes
18 hours and 20 minutes
18 hours and 50 minutes
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From Kuala Lumpur to Berlin
16 hours and 15 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
17 hours and 45 minutes
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From Muscat to New York
17 hours and 15 minutes
17 hours and 45 minutes
18 hours
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From Thessaloniki to Singapore
15 hours and 10 minutes
16 hours and 40 minutes
17 hours and 15 minutes
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From Berlin to Riyadh
9 hours and 15 minutes
9 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 40 minutes
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From Singapore to Venice
15 hours and 5 minutes
16 hours and 10 minutes
16 hours and 20 minutes
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From Dammam to Geneva
8 hours and 40 minutes
10 hours and 5 minutes
10 hours and 20 minutes
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From Bahrain to Copenhagen
9 hours and 10 minutes
10 hours and 5 minutes
10 hours and 15 minutes
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From Singapore to Ljubljana
14 hours and 55 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
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From Bangkok to Zagreb
13 hours and 55 minutes
15 hours and 30 minutes
16 hours and 3 minutes
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From Tokyo to Zagreb
17 hours and 5 minutes
18 hours and 15 minutes
18 hours and 40 minutes
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From Copenhagen to Dammam
8 hours and 30 minutes
9 hours and 55 minutes
10 hours and 5 minutes
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From Singapore to Malta
16 hours and 5 minutes
17 hours and 25 minutes
17 hours and 55 minutes
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From Singapore to Thessaloniki
14 hours and 15 minutes
16 hours and 35 minutes
17 hours and 18 minutes
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From Muscat to Copenhagen
9 hours and 55 minutes
10 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours and 35 minutes
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From Shanghai to Zagreb
15 hours and 35 minutes
17 hours and 5 minutes
17 hours and 10 minutes
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From Nairobi to Berlin
11 hours and 45 minutes
12 hours and 31 minutes
12 hours and 45 minutes
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From Nairobi to Munich
11 hours and 25 minutes
11 hours and 40 minutes
12 hours
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From Munich to Tokyo
15 hours and 30 minutes
16 hours
17 hours
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From Singapore to Naples
15 hours and 5 minutes
15 hours and 50 minutes
17 hours and 50 minutes
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From Madrid to Jakarta
17 hours and 50 minutes
18 hours and 5 minutes
18 hours and 20 minutes
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From Rome to Jakarta
16 hours and 30 minutes
17 hours and 10 minutes
18 hours and 5 minutes
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From Dammam to Dusseldorf
8 hours and 45 minutes
9 hours and 55 minutes
9 hours and 55 minutes
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From Karachi to Frankfurt
10 hours and 40 minutes
11 hours and 35 minutes
11 hours and 55 minutes
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From Bangkok to Bucharest
15 hours and 5 minutes
15 hours and 30 minutes
15 hours and 33 minutes
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From Hamburg to Bahrain
8 hours and 35 minutes
9 hours and 45 minutes
10 hours and 20 minutes
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From Muscat to Prague
8 hours and 55 minutes
10 hours and 20 minutes
11 hours
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From Zagreb to Shanghai
14 hours and 20 minutes
15 hours and 45 minutes
16 hours and 20 minutes
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From Kuala Lumpur to Geneva
15 hours and 55 minutes
16 hours and 10 minutes
16 hours and 50 minutes
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From Bahrain to Dusseldorf
8 hours and 50 minutes
9 hours and 15 minutes
10 hours and 30 minutes
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From Los Angeles to Riyadh
18 hours and 45 minutes
19 hours
19 hours and 15 minutes
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From Kuala Lumpur to Dulles
23 hours and 5 minutes
24 hours and 5 minutes
24 hours and 20 minutes
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From Malta to Singapore
16 hours and 20 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
17 hours and 20 minutes
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From Amman to Seattle
16 hours and 30 minutes
18 hours and 40 minutes
19 hours and 30 minutes
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From Copenhagen to Tokyo
15 hours and 35 minutes
16 hours and 10 minutes
16 hours and 10 minutes
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From Hamburg to Dammam
8 hours and 40 minutes
10 hours and 10 minutes
10 hours and 50 minutes
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From Izmir to Almaty
9 hours and 40 minutes
10 hours
10 hours and 10 minutes
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From Muscat to Geneva
10 hours
10 hours and 15 minutes
10 hours and 35 minutes
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From Bahrain to Berlin
9 hours and 15 minutes
10 hours and 20 minutes
10 hours and 55 minutes
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From Nairobi to Vienna
10 hours and 45 minutes
12 hours and 55 minutes
13 hours and 40 minutes
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From Edinburgh to Dammam
10 hours and 20 minutes
11 hours
11 hours and 45 minutes
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From Prague to Dammam
8 hours and 20 minutes
8 hours and 55 minutes
9 hours and 35 minutes
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From Budapest to Delhi
11 hours and 20 minutes
12 hours and 5 minutes
12 hours and 5 minutes
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From Barcelona to Hanoi
15 hours and 25 minutes
16 hours and 25 minutes
16 hours and 45 minutes
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From Seoul to Zagreb
16 hours and 5 minutes
16 hours and 40 minutes
16 hours and 40 minutes
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From Izmir to Lyon
7 hours and 10 minutes
8 hours and 35 minutes
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From Hamburg to Tokyo
15 hours and 20 minutes
16 hours
16 hours and 10 minutes
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From Kuwait to Chicago
15 hours and 55 minutes
17 hours and 55 minutes
18 hours and 10 minutes
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From Dammam to Berlin
9 hours
9 hours and 50 minutes
10 hours and 5 minutes
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From Muscat to Dusseldorf
9 hours and 35 minutes
11 hours and 5 minutes
11 hours and 5 minutes
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From Kuala Lumpur to Dusseldorf
16 hours
16 hours and 45 minutes
17 hours and 25 minutes
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From Bahrain to Hamburg
8 hours and 55 minutes
10 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours and 55 minutes
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From Venice to Abu Dhabi
8 hours and 35 minutes
9 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours and 55 minutes
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From Jeddah to Dusseldorf
8 hours and 45 minutes
9 hours and 30 minutes
10 hours
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From Nice to Tokyo
15 hours and 20 minutes
15 hours and 55 minutes
16 hours and 5 minutes
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From Nairobi to Hamburg
11 hours and 20 minutes
12 hours and 20 minutes
12 hours and 51 minutes
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From Shanghai to Bucharest
14 hours and 45 minutes
17 hours and 25 minutes
17 hours and 45 minutes
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From Tbilisi to Madrid
8 hours and 35 minutes
9 hours and 5 minutes
10 hours and 5 minutes
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From Guangzhou to Budapest
15 hours and 5 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
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From Ankara to Casablanca
9 hours and 5 minutes
10 hours and 20 minutes
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From Hamburg to Kuala Lumpur
14 hours and 35 minutes
15 hours
16 hours and 55 minutes
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From Paris to Madinah
9 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours and 13 minutes
10 hours and 15 minutes
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From Seoul to Naples
15 hours and 55 minutes
16 hours and 40 minutes
17 hours and 10 minutes
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From Seoul to Cairo
16 hours and 25 minutes
16 hours and 45 minutes
16 hours and 50 minutes
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From Guangzhou to Madrid
17 hours and 30 minutes
18 hours and 20 minutes
18 hours and 25 minutes
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From Hanover to Dubai
8 hours and 55 minutes
9 hours and 20 minutes
9 hours and 25 minutes
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From Jakarta to Berlin
17 hours and 20 minutes
18 hours
18 hours and 55 minutes
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From Dammam to Hamburg
8 hours and 50 minutes
10 hours and 10 minutes
10 hours and 25 minutes
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From San Francisco to Riyadh
19 hours and 35 minutes
19 hours and 50 minutes
20 hours
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From Tashkent to Los Angeles
21 hours and 50 minutes
22 hours and 5 minutes
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From Bangkok to Sofia
13 hours and 25 minutes
14 hours
15 hours and 35 minutes
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From Muscat to Budapest
8 hours and 35 minutes
10 hours and 20 minutes
10 hours and 20 minutes
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From Belgrade to Amman
6 hours and 45 minutes
7 hours
7 hours
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From Muscat to Bucharest
7 hours and 50 minutes
9 hours and 30 minutes
9 hours and 55 minutes
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From Dammam to Budapest
7 hours and 45 minutes
9 hours and 35 minutes
9 hours and 40 minutes
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From Colombo to Miami
22 hours and 30 minutes
24 hours and 15 minutes
24 hours and 20 minutes
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From Colombo to Dallas
22 hours and 35 minutes
24 hours
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From Tokyo to Sofia
16 hours and 35 minutes
19 hours and 20 minutes
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From Madinah to Frankfurt
9 hours and 10 minutes
9 hours and 25 minutes
9 hours and 40 minutes
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From Vienna to Jakarta
16 hours and 40 minutes
18 hours and 5 minutes
18 hours and 35 minutes
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From Dusseldorf to Tokyo
15 hours and 25 minutes
15 hours and 45 minutes
16 hours and 10 minutes
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From Malta to Bangkok
14 hours and 40 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
15 hours and 30 minutes
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From Karachi to Zurich
11 hours and 5 minutes
11 hours and 50 minutes
13 hours and 20 minutes
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From Kuala Lumpur to Lyon
16 hours and 15 minutes
17 hours and 25 minutes
17 hours and 35 minutes
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