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Find cheap flights from Istanbul Airport to Zurich from £115

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Istanbul to Zurich departing on 20/7. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Istanbul to Zurich, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Cheap flight deals from Istanbul to Zurich (IST-ZRH)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Istanbul to Zurich that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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04:30 - 20:00IST-ZRH
16h 30m1 stop
20:45 - 14:50ZRH-IST
17h 05m1 stop
£151Air Serbia
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Thu, 19 Sep - Tue, 24 Sep
16:05 - 08:45IST-ZRH
17h 40m1 stop
20:45 - 03:35ZRH-IST
5h 50m1 stop
£174Air Serbia
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Thu, 19 Sep - Thu, 26 Sep
20:20 - 22:20IST-ZRH
3h 00mdirect
07:35 - 11:40ZRH-IST
3h 05mdirect
£182Turkish Airlines
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Thu, 19 Sep - Tue, 24 Sep
15:25 - 17:25IST-ZRH
3h 00mdirect
20:45 - 14:50ZRH-IST
17h 05m1 stop
Thu, 19 Sep - Tue, 24 Sep
13:55 - 09:40IST-ZRH
20h 45m1 stop
10:30 - 23:40ZRH-IST
12h 10m1 stop
£195LOT
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Fri, 14 Jun - Wed, 19 Jun
16:35 - 20:00IST-ZRH
4h 25m1 stop
15:00 - 19:05ZRH-IST
3h 05mdirect
Sat, 7 Sep - Fri, 13 Sep
13:55 - 09:40IST-ZRH
20h 45m1 stop
19:55 - 13:05ZRH-IST
16h 10m1 stop
£204LOT
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Fri, 14 Jun - Tue, 18 Jun
20:20 - 22:20IST-ZRH
3h 00mdirect
10:45 - 14:45ZRH-IST
3h 00mdirect
£223Turkish Airlines
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Mon, 17 Jun - Wed, 19 Jun
14:00 - 21:55IST-ZRH
8h 55m2 stops
07:00 - 21:20ZRH-IST
13h 20m1 stop
£293Lufthansa
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Thu, 19 Sep - Wed, 25 Sep
14:00 - 21:55IST-ZRH
8h 55m2 stops
12:50 - 21:20ZRH-IST
7h 30m1 stop
£304Lufthansa
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Tue, 17 Sep - Fri, 20 Sep

Flights from Istanbul to Zurich - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Istanbul to Zurich 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 Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

The average price of all flights from Istanbul Airport to Zurich clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
When flying from Istanbul Airport to Zurich, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Thursdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Istanbul Airport, you’ll find the best rates on Thursdays and the most expensive ones on Tuesdays.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Istanbul Airport to Zurich, 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 Istanbul Airport to Zurich is March, where tickets cost £145 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and July, where the average cost of tickets is £274 and £218 respectively.

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

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Istanbul Airport to Zurich, 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 Istanbul Airport to Zurich, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 62 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
In the last 72 hours, the best return deals on flights connecting Istanbul Airport to Zurich were found on Air Serbia (£151) and Turkish Airlines (£182). KLM proposed the cheapest one-way flight at £115.

Which airlines fly direct between Istanbul Airport and Zurich?

Airline and price data is aggregated from results in KAYAK’s search results from the last 2 weeks for flights from Istanbul Airport to Zurich.
There is just one airline that flies from Istanbul Airport to Zurich direct and that is Turkish Airlines. The best one-way deal found from Turkish Airlines for the route is £147.

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

Each day, there are 4 direct flights that take off from Istanbul Airport and land in Zurich, with an average flight time of 2h 58m. The most common departure time is 19:00 and most flights take off in the morning. Each week, there are 28 flights and there are the same amount of flights each day 4.

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

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

How long does a flight from Istanbul Airport to Zurich take?

Direct flights from Istanbul Airport generally make it to Zurich in 3h 00m. The flying distance between the two cities is 1,080 miles.

What’s the earliest departure time from Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

Early birds can take the earliest flight from Istanbul Airport at 07:25 and will be landing in Zurich at 09:20.

What’s the latest departure time from Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

If you prefer to fly at night, the latest flight from Istanbul Airport to Zurich jets off at 20:20 and lands at 22:20.

Good to know - Cheap tickets from Istanbul Airport to Zurich

Low season

March

High season

December

Cheapest flight

£115
Best time to beat the crowds (24% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 19% lower on average.
Flight from Istanbul Airport to Zurich

When to book flights from Istanbul to Zurich

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Istanbul to Zurich based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated return price
KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or returns 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 Istanbul Airport to Zurich flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Istanbul Airport to Zurich was £143 for a one-way ticket and £188 for a return.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

    The Airbus A321-100/200 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Istanbul Airport to Zurich flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

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

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

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

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

    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 Istanbul Airport to Zurich.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Zurich from Istanbul Airport 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 Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

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

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

    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 Zurich from Istanbul Airport 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 Istanbul Airport to Zurich

  • Looking for a cheap flight from Zurich to Istanbul Airport? 25% of our users found flights on this route for £124 or less one-way.

Prefer to fly direct from Istanbul Airport to Zurich?

Find which airlines fly direct from Istanbul to Zurich, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Istanbul to Zurich

Monday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Tuesday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Wednesday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Thursday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Friday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Saturday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Sunday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

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Direct returns

Zurich to Istanbul

Monday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Tuesday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Wednesday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Thursday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Friday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Saturday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

Sunday

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, IndiGo, +4 more

Asiana Airlines, Gulf Air, +5 more

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Top airlines flying from Istanbul to Zurich

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Istanbul to Zurich. 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 Istanbul to Zurich? 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.
7.4
Turkish AirlinesOverall score based on 3688 reviews
7.4food
7.4comfort
7.4boarding
7.8crew
7.5entertainment
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Movie selection was ok, but could be better. Would like to see greater selection of newer movies.

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Apr 2024IST - IAD
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Movie selection was ok, but could be better. Would like to see greater selection of newer movies.

Loved the check-in experience. Very friendly staff and not crowded. I did wind up with a middle-middle seat, which was quite uncomfortable. Always appreciate the very professional staff on TAL.

Don’t use them on the IST-isb route, horrible service

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.

There was a Turkish Airlines employee sat in 16A in the row in front of us. We understood that she was a Turkish Airlines employee from her interaction with the cabin crew and the fact that she boarded business but was sitting in economy with us. What annoyed us was the extremely loud conversation she had for the majority of the 12 hour flight with two men, one of which was leaning over the chair in front of her. This was annoying as they were so loud that my wife and I could still hear them despite wearing our noise cancelling earphones. No intervention was taken by the cabin crew. Secondly, she ordered some extra meals from the crew, which we believe to have come from business class, for her male friends. Seeing this in economy is very disheartening. Lastly, one of her male friends pulled out an e-cigarette and was only mildly reprimanded by the cabin crew. Overall, we consider this behaviour completely inappropriate of a Turkish Airlines employee. Next time we will book with Emirites, I don’t think that their employees would be allowed to behave in this manner.

the worst experience we had. they put connection label to our luggages with mistake and we had to wait for 5 hours to pick them up

In general terms the service was excellent. I would ask that they add more content in Spanish to the catalog of movies, series and music.

Paying for reserved seats and never received the seats I paid for !! Just fake and a surprise out of their " box "

Turkish airline always good Only Turkish representatives at the gave need to be more helpfull to any staff who traveling on Turkish airline . One situation happened Ist to jfk on Feb 29 TK3 had seats I asked them to transfer me to tk3 because Feb 29 tk1 was oversold and they advise me that I might not make it for tk1 I asked them to transfer me to tk3 and they say no they can’t do it I been telling them you know that I don’t have a chance for tk 1 why would you let plane go with some empty seats on tk3 if you can transfer me to tk3 and have less staff on tk1 and still told me no I waited for tk1 9 hours and only last minute I got seat on tk1 It was not easy situation but I am glad I made it home Thank you Turkish Airline One more suggestion for Turkish Airline you need to make a FIRST CLASS cabin it would be so cool 🆒 Good luck all the best See you more

First class payment but wife’s seat broken, would recline but not lay flat. On previous flight, delays and ground crew malfunctions connecting jetway made us miss flight to Houston. I asked twice for a cart to assist us getting across the massive Istanbul Airport, but was denied. We are both over 70.

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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Cheapest flights to Zurich from Istanbul found in 2024

Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Istanbul to Zurich found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
20/7Sat
1 stopKLM
16h 35mIST-ZRH
£115
4/7Thu
2 stops
11h 00mIST-ZRH
£116
20/6Thu
1 stopAegean Airlines
14h 25mIST-ZRH
£116
29/4Mon
1 stopAegean Airlines
14h 30mIST-ZRH
£117
12/7Fri
1 stopAir Serbia
5h 25mIST-ZRH
£131
23/7Tue
1 stopAir Serbia
10h 55mIST-ZRH
£134
25/7Thu
directTurkish Airlines
3h 00mIST-ZRH
£136
24/5Fri
directTurkish Airlines
2h 55mIST-ZRH
£149
15/7Mon
2 stopsLufthansa
8h 55mIST-ZRH
£372
7/5Tue
2 stopsLufthansa
8h 55mIST-ZRH
£431

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Last minute flights from Istanbul to Zurich

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from Istanbul to Zurich that are departing in the next 10 days.
25/4Thu
multi-stopAir Serbia
4h 55mIST-ZRH
30/4Tue
multi-stopAir Serbia
22h 50mZRH-IST
£541
29/4Mon
multi-stopAegean Airlines
9h 40mIST-ZRH
6/5Mon
multi-stopAegean Airlines
7h 45mZRH-IST
£603
29/4Mon
multi-stopAegean Airlines
9h 40mIST-ZRH
7/5Tue
multi-stopAegean Airlines
7h 45mZRH-IST
£758

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Istanbul Airport - Zurich Flights

Departure:

Istanbul Airport (IST)Türkiye

Destination:

Zurich (ZRH)Switzerland

Return flight deals:

Zurich - Istanbul Airport

Cabin classes:

£277

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