Passengers
32,888
Melbourne to Istanbul, 12 months to Jun 2026
Melbourne to Istanbul
Turkey · 29 months of data from May 2010 · Istanbul to Melbourne
Flights between Melbourne 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
66,176
including Istanbul to Melbourne
At least
66%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
32,888 passengers flew Melbourne to Istanbul in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 66,176 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
Mar 2024
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
61,046 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; 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.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.
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 | 6,788 · Jul 2025 |
| Data coverage | May 2010 – Jun 2026 (29 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 2,600 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.