Passengers
62,398
Istanbul to Sydney, 12 months to Jun 2026
Istanbul to Sydney
Turkey · 21 months of data from May 2010 · Sydney to Istanbul
Flights between Sydney and Istanbul carry one flight number the whole way but stop somewhere en route — no aircraft has been recorded flying the pair without an intermediate stop. It is a single bookable service, not a connection.
Both directions
127,842
including Sydney to Istanbul
At least
70%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
62,398 passengers flew Istanbul to Sydney in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 127,842 on the route in both directions.
Passenger history milestones
Recorded milestones use this city-pair passenger series, with both directions combined. A first positive record is not a service-launch date; complete calendar years require all twelve observed, non-null months.
First positive passenger record
Apr 2015
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
109,027 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Istanbul.
Passengers, 2010 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
How full were the flights?
Inbound load factor, read as a floor rather than an exact figure. Some flights on this pair also carried passengers to and from other cities, and their seats cannot be split between those journeys. Dividing by every seat on every aircraft that touched the route gives the lowest the true figure can be, so actual occupancy is at or above the line. Seat data begins in 2009, so this series is shorter than the passenger chart above.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 16,228 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | May 2010 – Jun 2026 (21 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 2,659 tonnes |
| Destination region | Turkey |
No punctuality data is published for international services, so there are no cancellation or on-time figures on this page. That series covers domestic routes only.