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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 Helsinki, 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 Istanbul to Helsinki, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Flights from Istanbul to Helsinki - Travel Insights & Trends

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

The average price of all flights from Istanbul Airport to Helsinki clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to Helsinki on a Saturday, 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 Istanbul to Helsinki. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Friday and avoiding Mondays for the best deals.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Istanbul Airport to Helsinki, 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 Helsinki is October, where tickets cost $274 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are May and July, where the average cost of tickets is $421 and $417 respectively.

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

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Istanbul Airport to Helsinki, 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 Helsinki, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 87 days before departure.

Which airlines fly non-stop between Istanbul Airport and Helsinki?

Airline and price data is aggregated from results in KAYAK’s search results from the last 2 weeks for flights from Istanbul Airport to Helsinki.
There is just one airline that flies from Istanbul Airport to Helsinki direct and that is Turkish Airlines. The best one-way deal found from Turkish Airlines for the route is $367.

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

Each day, there are 2 nonstop flights that take off from Istanbul Airport and land in Helsinki, with an average flight time of 3h 35m. The most common departure time is 8:00 am and most flights take off in the morning. 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 Istanbul Airport and Helsinki?

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 Istanbul to Helsinki?

Early birds can take the earliest flight from Istanbul Airport at 8:00 am and will be landing in Helsinki at 11:35 am.

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

If you prefer to fly at night, the latest flight from Istanbul Airport to Helsinki jets off at 3:00 pm and lands at 6:35 pm.

Good to know

Low season

April

High season

January
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 17% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 6% lower on average.

When to book flights from Istanbul to Helsinki

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

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Istanbul and Helsinki?

    Yes, you'll most likely have to show a valid passport before boarding the plane in Istanbul and on arrival in Helsinki.

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

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Istanbul to Helsinki?

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

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

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

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

    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 to Helsinki.

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

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

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

    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 Helsinki with an airline and back to Istanbul with another airline. Booking your flights between Istanbul and HEL can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

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

    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 Helsinki from Istanbul 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 IST to Helsinki

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $276 or less one-way and $521 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly non-stop from Istanbul to Helsinki?

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

Nonstop departures

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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Nonstop returns

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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Top 3 airlines serving from Istanbul to Helsinki

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Istanbul to Helsinki. 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 Helsinki? 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
7.2entertainment
7.8boarding
7.7comfort
7.4food
8.2crew
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 2023RIX - FCO
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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)."

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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Departure:

Istanbul (IST)Türkiye

Destination:

Helsinki (HEL)Finland

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Helsinki - Istanbul

Cabin classes:

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