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These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Helsinki to Istanbul, as well as popular online travel agencies
These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Helsinki to Istanbul, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Flights from Helsinki to Istanbul - Travel Insights & Trends

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

The average price of all flights from Helsinki to Istanbul Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to Istanbul Airport on a Wednesday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Friday is the most expensive day to fly from Helsinki to Istanbul Airport. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Wednesday and avoiding Thursdays for the best deals.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Helsinki 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 Helsinki to Istanbul Airport is November, where tickets cost £213 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and June, where the average cost of tickets is £347 and £342 respectively.

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

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Helsinki 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 Helsinki to Istanbul Airport, you should book around 4 days before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 55 days before departure.

Which airlines fly direct between Helsinki and Istanbul Airport?

Airline and price data is aggregated from results in KAYAK’s search results from the last 2 weeks for flights from Helsinki to Istanbul Airport.
There is just one airline that flies from Helsinki to Istanbul Airport direct and that is Turkish Airlines. The best one-way deal found from Turkish Airlines for the route is £158.

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

Each day, there are 2 direct flights that take off from Helsinki and land in Istanbul Airport, with an average flight time of 3h 47m. The most common departure time is 19:00 and most flights take off in the evening. Each week, there are 14 flights and there are the same amount of flights each day 2.

Which cabin class options are there for flights between Helsinki 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 Helsinki to Istanbul Airport?

Early birds can take the earliest flight from Helsinki at 12:30 and will be landing in Istanbul Airport at 16:20.

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

If you prefer to fly at night, the latest flight from Helsinki to Istanbul Airport jets off at 19:30 and lands at 23:15.

Good to know - Cheap tickets from Helsinki to Istanbul Airport

Low season

January

High season

June
Best time to beat the crowds (12% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (27% more expensive on average)

When to book flights from Helsinki to Istanbul

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Helsinki to Istanbul 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 Helsinki to Istanbul Airport flights

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

    The Airbus A321 (sharklets) is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Helsinki to Istanbul Airport flight route.

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

    oneworld, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Helsinki and Istanbul Airport, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

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

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

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

    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 Helsinki to Istanbul Airport.

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

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

    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 Istanbul Airport with an airline and back to Helsinki with another airline.

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

    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 Airport from Helsinki 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 Helsinki to Istanbul Airport

  • Looking for a cheap flight from Istanbul Airport to Helsinki? 25% of our users found flights on this route for £253 or less one-way and £617 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Helsinki to Istanbul Airport?

Find which airlines fly direct from Helsinki-Vantaa to Istanbul, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Helsinki-Vantaa to Istanbul

Monday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Tuesday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Wednesday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Thursday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Friday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Saturday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Sunday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

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Direct returns

Istanbul to Helsinki-Vantaa

Monday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Tuesday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Wednesday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Thursday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Friday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Saturday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

Sunday

Finnair, IndiGo, Scandinavian Airlines, +1 more

Finnair, IndiGo, +2 more

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Top 4 airlines serving from Helsinki to Istanbul

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Helsinki 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 Helsinki 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.
7.6
airBalticOverall score based on 239 reviews
7.4Food
8.2Crew
7.2Entertainment
7.8Boarding
7.7Comfort
Airline reviews

Smooth flight. Surprisingly good and inexpensive food choices. Clean cabin. The plane is not equipped with the entertainment system.

10.0 ExcellentMichael, Nov 2023TLL - RIX
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Smooth flight. Surprisingly good and inexpensive food choices. Clean cabin. The plane is not equipped with the entertainment system.

Failure of APU meant massive delays at start of journey , baking in an unventilated plane Not good

Delay ca 5 hours on the first flight and 2 hours on the next one

The airline ran late and I almost missed this connecting flight to LGW. The airline didn't act very sympathetic to my situation. I wished that didn't happen as my experience I'm sure would've been much different.

One flight has delayed, but connecting flight ( the same company) has another plan for us. And left TO TLL. Instead Finnair.Who waiting pax from BRUSSELS. GREAT EXAMPLE OF COOPERATION. 👍

Great leg room and very clean plane nothing could be better 😁

Pros: "Not much to say here. It was a short flight, and it went smoothly."
Cons: "I’ll say the same thing about almost every flight I have, and this is mostly for the airlines. People might fly more and pay a bit more if you give us more room. Being crammed into a tiny seat with a bunch of strangers is never pleasant. Same in this flight. Nothing terrible, just the usual. Also, to the other passengers, sit down until it’s your turn to exit. What is wrong with you that you can’t sit five more minutes? Be polite and let the people in front of you go first, let them have room to grab their bags instead of having your elbows in their face."
Pros: "Everything except the delay"
Cons: "No delays, took bag crew forever to load the plane, they were extremely late....waited over 35minutes"
Cons: "The flight was late by half an hour and I had to pay 60€ because my cabin bag was 2kg heavier than allowed."
Pros: "The crew was friendly. Baggage arrive safely. But the repeated commercial interruptions trying to sell things made me wonder if it was commission based - a nap was not possible from the announcements but you could buy things duty free. I am glad it was a short flight. A new plane."
Cons: "There are no queues. A free for all to load and unload the plane. If you are looking for Swiss order, look elsewhere. Nothing is free, not water (1.5 euro) or any other beverages or anything else. We paid double what the flight should cost to not even be offered water. The seats were lightly padded to maximize seats. There was a small amount of leg room but some. No power outlets, wifi or media. The worst aspect is I bought a flight on Baltic Air from Tallinn to Riga and had the price from Riga to Paris on the next tab on kayak. I bought the ticket from Tallin to Riga then flipped to buy Riga to Paris only to learn it was a bait price. The price was actually $200 more. Baltic would not refund the first flight (within minutes) so we were stuck to either walk away from our 2 tickets to Riga or pay the bait and switch rate. We begrudgingly paid 400 (200 each) euro MORE than the initial price shown so we could fly out of Riga back to Paris (to be back in Paris by Jan 7). A non alcoholic beverage, a small snack, and power access would be helpful. Ground crew helping with order would be helpful. I was shoved and run over trying to get onto and off the plane. It is the wild west of flying except the plane is new...oh, and it is 30 euro if you do not check in online ahead. But you will still need to stand in line to check a bag (where they can issue you a boarding pass)."

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.

The most horrific experience we had with the airline that we had in our life Everything was substandard at best. For just one hot tea they charged 4 euros We paid for Lufthansa months in advance ,to get there they didn’t have us in record and after 4 and a half hours layover we almost we got one seat at the first row and one in the back of the plane On top of that our suitcase was seriously damaged and it’s unusable. Here we are halfway around the world in foreign language having to fix this on our vacation time Would you kindly and quickly resolve this matter

Horrible experience. Nothing to give to kids to keep them entertained.

We were helped whenever needed and had a pleasant flight.

That was no easy way to get on board in the plane was very hot and I couldn’t talk to the crewmember there super rude and they couldn’t fix the AC. They felt very uncomfortable for 3 1/2 hours flight. I would not use airline next time. Thank you.

Good experience. Food was great and passengers helped rearrange seats so our family could be seated together

All flights cancelled with no way to reach the airline

Super uncomfortable. Shoved in like sardines. Overhead bins were tight. Why was coffee charged for? I was insulted. How about an inflight magazine? Why can’t I charge my phone? Maybe the planes are old? They didn’t feel new. Television would have been nice. Bathrooms also very small for anyone not a size 6 or female.

Unable to get Lufthanza code to obtain a boarding pass for my flight. Had to exit and re-register to get on the flight. Extremely frustrating.

NEVER TOOK THIS FLIGHT. LUFTHANSA CANCELED THIS FLIGHT WITHOUT ANY NOTICE. We were rerouted through Chicago on United airlines with a layover of five hours and then on American Airlines to St. Louis. The United club lounge in Chicago is good but there is no shower unlike Bangalore 080 lounge

My flight was delayed for more than an hour due to planning amd scheduling issues all of which were Lufthansa's responsibility. They failed dismally at doing what was agreed upon and their reparations were inadequate and completely useless to us. The flight crew were lovely however the ground crew working out of their customer service were the modt rude and obnoxious people i have ever had the misfortune of meeting.

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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Helsinki - Istanbul Airport Flights

Departure:

Helsinki (HEL)Finland

Destination:

Istanbul Airport (IST)Türkiye

Return flight deals:

Istanbul Airport - Helsinki

Cabin classes:

£1,157
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