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Flights from Karachi to Istanbul - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Karachi to Istanbul to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Karachi to Istanbul?

The average price of all flights from Karachi to Istanbul Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to Istanbul on a Thursday and more expensive on a Sunday. On your return trip to Karachi, you should consider flying back on a Monday, and avoid Saturdays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Karachi to Istanbul Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Karachi to Istanbul Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights from Karachi to Istanbul Airport is November, where tickets cost C$ 539 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, where the average cost of tickets is C$ 639 and C$ 635 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Karachi to Istanbul Airport?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Karachi to Istanbul Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from Karachi to Istanbul Airport, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 84 days before departure.

Which airlines fly direct between Karachi and Istanbul Airport?

Airline and price data is aggregated from results in KAYAK’s search results from the last 2 weeks for flights from Karachi to Istanbul Airport.
There is just one airline that flies from Karachi to Istanbul Airport direct and that is Turkish Airlines. The best one-way deal found from Turkish Airlines for the route is C$ 656.

How many flights are there between Karachi and Istanbul Airport per day?

There is a maximum of 1 nonstop flight a day that takes off from Karachi and lands in Istanbul Airport, with an average flight time of 5h 50m. The most common departure time is 6:00 a.m. and most flights take off in the morning. Each week, there are 7 flights.

Which cabin class options are there for flights between Karachi and Istanbul Airport?

The average price of flights for each cabin class for the route found by users searching on KAYAK over the last 2 weeks.
There are 2 cabin class options for the route. These are Business and Economy. Perform a search on KAYAK to find the latest prices and availability for all cabin fares, which differ across airlines.

What’s the earliest departure time from Karachi to Istanbul?

Early birds can take the earliest flight from Karachi at 6:00 am and will be landing in Istanbul Airport at 9:50 am.

What’s the latest departure time from Karachi to Istanbul?

If you prefer to fly at night, the latest flight from Karachi to Istanbul Airport jets off at 6:00 am and lands at 9:50 am.

Good to know

Low season

August

High season

July
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 3% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (6% more expensive on average)

When to book flights from Karachi to Istanbul

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Karachi to Istanbul based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated round-trip price
KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or round-trips with a duration up to 40 days. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs for booking Karachi to Istanbul flights

  • Are there layover option for flights operating between KHI and IST?

    When traveling from KHI to IST Airport, there are many possibilities for layovers. However, the airline you'll be flying with determines which airport you'll have a layover. For instance, Dubai International Airport serves as the layover location for all Emirates Airlines. Similar to this, since Sharjah International Airport serves as Air Arabia primary hub, you will almost certainly have a layover there if you fly with them.

  • Can I access KHI using public transportation?

    Unfortunately, public transportation available from Karachi city center to Karachi International Airport. Buses operating between this route take approximately 46min to get to the airport. Alternatively, you can opt for a taxi which is a convenient option for getting from the city center to the airport. As an alternative, you can select a rental automobile from one of the established car rental companies.

  • Are there any hotels to stay at near IST?

    There are various hotels where you can seek accommodation upon your arrival at Istanbul International Airport. If you land late at IST, you should consider staying at YOTEL Istanbul Airport hotel located in the landslide area. As a result, you won’t have to go through the night hassle.

  • What can I do at IST airport?

    You can do multiple things at IST if you have some time. The airport features multiple amenities including art galleries located at the Domestic Terminal. Nonetheless, you can grab a meal at one of the many cafes and restaurants if you are feeling hungry.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Karachi to Istanbul?

    The Airbus A330-300 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Karachi to Istanbul flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Karachi to Istanbul?

    Star Alliance is the only airline alliance operating flights between Karachi and Istanbul.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Karachi to Istanbul?

    There are direct flights from Karachi to Istanbul on a daily basis.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Karachi to Istanbul?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Karachi to Istanbul.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Karachi to Istanbul?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Istanbul from Karachi is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Karachi to Istanbul?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Istanbul with an airline and back to Karachi with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Karachi to Istanbul?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Istanbul from Karachi up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding a cheap flight from Karachi to Istanbul

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for C$ 917 or less one-way and C$ 1,538 or less round-trip.
  • There are multiple airports in Karachi that you can fly out to Istanbul. However, Jinnah International Airport (KHI) is the major airport operating between Karachi and Istanbul route. In addition to hosting about 20 airlines, it serves as the hub for Airblue, Shaheen Air and Pakistan International Airways. Nonetheless, it has capabilities for processing cargo as well as for overhauling airplanes.
  • If you intend to leave your car at Jinnah International Airport (KHI), consider the off-site parking lots rather than those found inside the airport. The charges at the off-site parking lots will often be less expensive than those at the airport parking lots. However, if you want to park long term and need a secure parking lot, you will find exceptional parking spaces at Jinnah Terminal Complex. Note, that the charges varry depending on how long you park.
  • When arriving in Istanbul through Istanbul International Airport (IST) and are looking for a place to relax after the long flight, there are several lounges at your disposal offering excellent services. ISG Lounge, Turkish Airlines Lounge and Türk Hava Yolları Miles & Smiles Lounge located at the airport’s terminals are the most popular lounges in IST. These lounges offer have different regulations so ensure to confirm with your airline before booking for these services.
  • If you are in a hurry to get to your destination in Istanbul from IST, consider taking a taxi, or a car rental from the airport. This is the fastest and most efficient means of transport when traveling to Istanbul city center compared to public transit. With taxis, you can get to Istanbul cityu center in apprximately 45min.
  • Passengers traveling with kids from Karachi to Istanbul will have access to exceptional interactive kids play ground facilities located at the departure gates in IST. Passengers can access these services at no cost.
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Prefer to fly non-stop from Karachi to Istanbul?

Find which airlines fly direct from Quaid-E-Azam Intl to Istanbul, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Nonstop departures

Karachi Quaid-E-Azam Intl to Istanbul

Monday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Tuesday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Wednesday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Thursday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Friday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Saturday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Sunday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

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Nonstop returns

Istanbul to Karachi Quaid-E-Azam Intl

Monday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Tuesday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Wednesday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Thursday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Friday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Saturday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Sunday

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines, Turkish Airlines

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Top 4 airlines serving from Karachi to Istanbul

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Karachi to Istanbul. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Karachi to Istanbul? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.1
EmiratesOverall score based on 4038 reviews
7.9Food
8.3Entertainment
8.2Boarding
8.1Comfort
8.3Crew
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Worst ever. No assistance and communication from Emirates crew. No visibility of when the flight is flying. Couldn’t understand if we can go to lounge to take rest. Emirates system at a certain point said flight is not operating and suggested to take the next flight and in few minutes it suddenly opened the gate for boarding. unsupportive and rude crew. Worst experience ever. Flight was delayed by 5 hours so need the compensation for that.

2.0 MediocreVikrant, Apr. 2024DXB - BOM
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Worst ever. No assistance and communication from Emirates crew. No visibility of when the flight is flying. Couldn’t understand if we can go to lounge to take rest. Emirates system at a certain point said flight is not operating and suggested to take the next flight and in few minutes it suddenly opened the gate for boarding. unsupportive and rude crew. Worst experience ever. Flight was delayed by 5 hours so need the compensation for that.

No entertainment u less you pay. Wish there were some free movies

Absolutely terrible delays for 3 hours changed seats after we paid an upgrade on both legs. It appears it’s up to us to request a refund after they down graded our seat. Never again !!

Seat and leg space is much better than the Qatar airline. The crew I would like to say is not meeting the requirements of emirates airlines cause it almost 20 years I am flying with emirates this time I really feel that crew is not behaving well someone asked for water waited more than 30 minutes and there are more incidents in this flight.

The boarding was very chaotic and some airline staff were rude. This needs attending to.

Excellent airlines. I highly recommend using Emirates. Its my number 1 airlines

I liked theAVML food. Taste was alright and quantity was enough. Sometimes during the flight I felt that the smell from toilet was coming to the cabin

Food was not eadable. Testless and not apealing. order for indian vegitarian, recived spice less. combination of main course and side iteams are far away from traditonal food, serve less iteams. , but eadoble. Thanks

I wish any of the US airlines operated like Emirates

I upgraded to first which was great and overall was a good experience. However, the service was a slight let down this time compared to what I would have expected from Emirates First. I ordered my meals and made a point to order the wine I wanted to have with the main course. The main course somehow came before my starter and I decided not to make a fuss of it and just asked for the wine so that I can enjoy it with the steak. It took quite a few minutes before the wrong wine came which I pointed out. At this point I decided to start eating as medium rare steak (the way I like it) was going to get cold . Few minutes later, a different crew came with the same incorrect wine and I had to send it back and waited another few minutes. Both crew came together few minutes later finally with the correct wine. By then I was more than half way through my steak which is rather unfortunate because the steak was good and and wine was good. Would have been perfect to enjoy them together . They were apologetic and when I mentioned that she had forgotten about my starter, she apologised and insisted that she will make it for me even if it’s just to try. They were nice about it all but so many mistakes for a rare experience in First was disappointing and this flight was paid for not miles redemption, even the upgrade.

The seat did not recline and we called the stewardess, he forced it to recline, but when we landed, it did not come forward because the seat was broken. The stewardess came, He tried to do it but couldn't do it, the flight commander came and spoke to us in a bad tone, telling us to get out of here, she waited at the head and acted as if there was a child and we couldn't get up, it was very shameful, I don't even know if it's true, but she said if you don't get up, the plane will not land and will keep turning around. Then a passenger pushed the seat from behind and it worked. Then we wanted to talk to the supervisor again, but she did not come next to us. We fly so much and this is the first time we encountered such a style.

Excellent service and comfort from the moment you check in. Flight crew is hyper focused on making passengers comfortable and at ease. It’s like a flying hotel!

Horrible. Boarding was terrible. For a huge airplane, we needed to be transported to the plane. The boarding area was overcrowded and frantic. .The seats were so uncomfortable. The food was fine.

Only chicken as a meat dish through out the flight

Nothing really was great as such. Seen other no name airlines perform better.

It was a nightmare. I booked business class ticket from Ediburgh to Beirut via Istanbul to attend a funeral. I had a wonderful experience flying to Istanbul from Edinburgh. Then I could not get a boarding pass issued to Beirut. It seems that although they booked me and I had a reservation number, I had no seat allocated and the flight was full. I was asked to go from one desk to another and made to wait for 2 hours. I missed my flight as I did not have a seat assigned and it was full. The only option was to put me on the next flight, 6 hours later, for a fee of over $400. They said that was the best they can do to 'help me' and to 'take it or leave it'. Well, I was not about to be bullied; I stood my ground. I booked and paid premium for the journey, which was confirmed. The eventually accepted to not charge me extra and i waited a total of over 8 hours in the airport with no compensation. On top of my grief with the risk of missing the funeral service, I had to put up with their indifference and condescending attitude. They spoke about me in Turkish thinking I would not understand (I hold a British passport) in front of me. When they eventually handed my passport and boarding pass back to me, I showed them I was born in Istanbul and that I understood everything and said a condescending 'thank you' back to them in Turkish. You should have seen their faces. I said that consumers have rights and it is a shame that Turkish Airlines does not have good customer service to at least acknowledge and apologize for errors committed by the airline. Blaming the me, the client, for such an error and placing unreasonable ultimatums, rudeness and dismissiveness to be rid of me, particularly when I was vulnerable and visibly grieving was really shocking... The airline taints the city of Istanbul and the people of Türkiye. Such a shame.

Was not able to check in online, so had to stand in line for 90 minutes to get a boarding pass, and I had no luggage to check. Why not let people check in in advance on line? Or at a kiosk at the airport?

Boarding did not have a clue what is an EU disability card

Not a good experience from Lagos was very terrible paying for one extra bag is #403,600 in dollars is $331 which is too high and when get to Ny I don’t receive my bag till 2nd day some of my stuff was damaged am not really happy with Turkish Airlines very poor services.

3 of us were in the business class. All good except the Flight out of Mumbai is too early. It is at 6:30 am. Reporting is at 4 am. We had to get up at 3 am. US connection has 4-5 hours of layover. It would be nicer to start the India flight late (give more time to sleep at home) and have less layover duration in IST.

Overall mediocre experience. Check in was good. They're were discriminatory. They were not attentive, food choices were not vegetarian friendly. The food served was frozen.

My wife and I were upgraded to Business Class on our Dublin-Abu-Dhabi flight on the 22nd of January. Being served by "Mariyan" (not too sure about her name, she's from Tunisia) was the real highlight of our flight, she deserves to be working with etihad. We are looking forward to the next upgrade as we are flying back to Dublin on February 01, 2024. If I am not mistaken we have just reached GOLD status as Etihad Guests.

One thing is very important is you people not giving seat arrangement together to couple, senior citizen. You have to take care of senior citizen. Do not look about money. Money is not important everywhere. Make relationship strong is very very important. I like Etiyad air line out of all air line. Food was hot and delicious. Air hostess gave very good service, nice attitude, very good behaviour. I gave 10 out of 10 marks. Thanks Jivraj

I WOULD ADVISE NOT TO BOOK YOUR FLIGHT ON KAYAK. THEY SHOW BETTER FARES AND AFTER I BOOKED MINE, I FIND OUT THAT IT DID NOT INCLUDE LUGGAGE. i HAD TO PAY $800 TO CHECK IN MY BAGS.

Entertainment did not work from flight from Abu Dhabi to Kolkata. Emirates has a much better flight in that sector.

Crew was good, boarding mediocre, food choices were limited, seating was not comfortable

Sits are very uncomfortable Don’t feel like to travel in Etihad. It was 1st time we traveled in Etihad now we decided we don’t want to travel in Etihad.

The flight was small and was not cool very bad

Short travel duration. However, I had placed meal preference while booking my air ticket but was given vegetarian meal on board. Food was okay. Not so great. Didn't like Spanish eggplant, cold chickpeas salad. No hot soup was available. Everything cold cold only.

It feels like the seat did not have any cushion just plywood. The seats are so compact that I could not even move at all and I am slim. Just imagine someone else. Singapore Air and Emirates are far far better than this. Do not even travel for free. For a 12 hour flight sitting on a plywood is horrible experience and on top of that the person at checking counter at NY was worst and rude. Plus they charge arms and leg for everything. I think they would also start charging for belts and oxygen also soon. First and last time flying with Ethiad.

Pegasus is not a very comfortable airline. They’re not in any way hospitable

It was like moving cattle around. Very abrupt, uncomfortable and not much hospitality

All good but air not give the pasing er any food even glase of water

Flight delayed by 1hr when we already boarded because someone had to get off. Leg room is terrible for 6ft people like me.

I used the airline 5-6 times for the last year and every flight have had perfect timing and I like it. Despite catastrophic absence of space for my legs 😁

The crew was utterly non helping and non courteous.I asked for a water. The air hostess could have said it's paid . She informed me that I will come later after serving but never turned up. The seats were never comfortable.My first and last flight with Pegasus.I am not taking again

The plane left Istanbul 1 hour late and the AC was not really working great it was so hot inside and no air. This was my worst flight in a long time since I had a flight with Ryanair.

Cheap and cheerful. It’s a super cheap, no frills flight. Very professional and as it’s an A320 relatively spacious. Seats do not recline. Happy with the service. You get what you pay for. Can’t complain

I had 4 flights for less than a week and there were no delays and issues. Thanks to the crews and for perfectly organised service.

There is no usb for charging the phone you should provide the water

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