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Are your dates flexible? We break down the daily and monthly prices for first class flights to Istanbul Airport, so you can find the best time to fly.
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To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for first class flights to Istanbul, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all the values for each month.
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To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for first class flights to Istanbul, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.

FAQs for Istanbul Airport first class flights

  • Which airline has the best first class in-flight amenities for flights to Istanbul?

    Emirates has the best in-flight amenities for first class flights to Istanbul. You will get a mattress topper and quality beddings to make your downtime as comfortable as possible. You will also get a mirror, a set of lotions and perfumes from Bulgari, a dental kit, and tissues as part of your amenity kit.

  • Which airline has the best lounge for first class flights to Istanbul?

    Air France has the best lounge for first class flights to Istanbul. This lounge is shared among the SkyTeam flight members. The lounge has a business center where you can hold meetings, quick meals and appetizers, a TV room, and a flight monitor for you to keep track of your flight.

  • Which airline has the best suites for first class flights to Istanbul?

    Emirates has the best suites for first class flights to Istanbul. The suite is a floor-to-ceiling enclosure that ensures maximum privacy. Inside, you will have a large entertainment screen packed with various media for you to consume. You will also get a fully stocked mini-bar that has drinks and some snacks. The seat fully reclines and has enough room to ensure you are comfortable while you sleep.

  • How long is a flight to Istanbul Airport?

    Flights from Seattle12h 12m
    Flights from Dallas12h 32m
    Flights from Houston12h 36m
    Flights from Boston10h 10m
    Flights from Atlanta11h 30m
  • What is the most popular airline offering First Class flights to Istanbul Airport?

    Among KAYAK users, Emirates is the most popular airline offering First Class seats on flights to Istanbul Airport.

  • Which airlines offer First Class tickets on flights to Istanbul Airport?

    Traveling to Istanbul Airport and want to offer yourself a First Class experience? Depending on the origin, the following airlines offer seats in First Class: Emirates.

  • How does KAYAK find such good deals on First Class tickets to Istanbul Airport?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights to Istanbul Airport for economy class as well as First Class travelers.

  • What is the best airline for first class flights to Istanbul Airport?

    The highest-rated airline by KAYAK users offering first class flights to Istanbul Airport is Delta, with an overall rating of 8.0.

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Top tips for finding first class flights to Istanbul Airport

  • First class passengers have access to fast track, a service that will allow you to go through security faster. For some airlines, you will relax in the lounge as they help sort out airport formalities.
  • You’ll have priority boarding and have exclusive personnel attending you throughout the journey. On arrival, you will also have priority to alight from the plane.
  • Most airlines will also provide transport on arrival, which will take you from the aircraft to the lounge. Here, you can once again relax as an attendant takes care of some ofyour airport formalities. As a first class passenger, the lounges in Istanbul are in the International terminal.
  • The most expensive day to fly First Class to Istanbul Airport is Saturday, while the cheapest is Wednesday.
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Top 5 airlines flying to Istanbul Airport

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Istanbul. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from the United States to Istanbul. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly first class to Istanbul Airport? 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.
8.0
DeltaOverall score based on 10368 reviews
8.2Boarding
8.6Crew
7.9Comfort
8.0Entertainment
7.4Food
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Really bad baggage handling. Had my Rimowa bag badly damaged at the latches.

4.0 OkayDavwinder Singh, Jun 2024SEA - ATL
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Really bad baggage handling. Had my Rimowa bag badly damaged at the latches.

It was pretty good I was worried with the short Layover that I might not catch my connection but the gate was there

It was good until there was a 3 hour delay because there was not any pilots to fly the plane.

There was plenty of overhead room but half of the passengers were told they had to check their carryon bags. My partner and I checked in as early as possible and our seats were split across the aisle.

Friendly flight attendants. Comfort plus seats were very comfortable and had lots of leg room. 10A and 10 B.

I've flown many many times on Northwest and then Delta. The crew on this flight were absolutely the best I've had the pleasure of being looked after by.

Flew first class so everything was great. But maybe because the flights were red eye, no meals were served, just chips. I flew Alaska Air 1st class at 9PM (2 hour flight) and they served beef short rib sliders!

Had to change aircraft due to a faulty door. Surprisingly it only caused about an hour and a half of delay. Delta handled this situation as well as can be expected.

Awful. Flight was continuously getting delayed and gates kept changing without any reason. Flight was delayed for more then 3 hours

Paid premium for Delta only to be on safe but tired old 767 with ancient cabin in mediocre condition. Poor wifi and horrible inflight entertainment. Hardly a premium experience. Should have flown SW and had fun flight crew and no pretense

Quick and efficient as always. Air France managed to loose and damage my luggage that never made it onto my KLM flight.

The food from Lagos to Amsterdam was was very poor compared to AMS-YYZ

The flight was again delayed for more then 2 hours with some lousy explanation regarding the reason of the delay. Although the flight was delayed for more than 2 hours, no refreshments were offered (according to EU regulations). Last 4 flights on KLM - always at least 2 hrs late. So be prepared that you cannot plan anything with KLM.

The flight was delayed for 2 hrs. Because they didn’t have a crew to fly. And it is not a first time for klm to do that. Last time they cancelled my filght and rebooked me 3 days later. Not reliable airline

We left one hour late because of technical difficulties. The economy comfort seats are great for the price. The crew was mediocre, they do not provide a pleasant experience, they just deliver food and drinks and give orders, not very amicable, no service and hospitality focus.

Booked connecting flights with KlM. My serving flight was the furthest part of the airport. On arrival in Zurich. My two cases arrived but only one carry on belong to my son. His three suitcase didn't arrive. After enquiring we discovered they were still in Amsterdam. We landed at 11.12. We eventually left the airport just after one.

Seats are fair enough for medium tall people. Good food all the trip. Fight attendances are warm

I thought KLM was the best airline but the Lima - Amsterdam was 1 hours late, the Brussels - Amsterdam was 2.30 hours late and the Amsterdam - Lima was 30 minutes late

no issues at all... Kudos to the food. This time was really really good

The food was ok. The crew seemed like they were cranky. I had one guy get mad at me for passing in between the storage area to get to the other toilet. I can understand if it's not allowed but reprimanding me like I'm a student saying "This is the last time!" was not appropriate. During my meal time, there was a French family around me. No problems there but when we usually have meals, they are supposed to put their chair in the upright position. These people did not do it and the steward did not tell them to raise their seat in the upright position. However, I was told to do so! So, me and another person next to me had to eat with the monitor almost touching our faces. Furthermore, a lady in front of me was putting her feet up and preventing another elder passenger from putting her seat back. To make it worse, she was continuously hitting her back into her seat, shaking my monitor while I was watching a movie. A crew member did speak to her about it but then she accused me of pushing her seat forward! The crew member gave me a death stare and told me to stop pushing the seat forward. I did not even touch her seat at all, if I did, she would know it. Her boyfriend also stood up and tried to push her seat even further past the maximum decline to no avail. None of these people were reprimanded but the steward, some bald guy, was extremely friendly with them and did not even try to instruct them to do anything until it was time to land. I resisted the urge to really argue with them because I would have obviously been seen as the aggressor (I have no idea why). I hardly said anything on this flight except "more wine please" and "sorry" if I bumped into someone accidentally. Overall, it was an annoying flight and I had to resist the urge to yell at the steward and the people he was overly friendly with. The happiest moment of this flight was leaving it.

Not great. Flight attendants were aloof, food was mediocre, seats that I paid $150 were given to someone else without any concession. I will probably never use kayak again. Terrible experience from start to finish.

The wine was low quality Finnair label stuff in small bottles and only one small bottle each. Embarassinng. A competing airline served me two generous glasses of a nice South African Shiraz from regular wine bottles, a Beck's beer, and a generous Dewar's White Label on the rocks. Cabin service was good and polite, plane interior was beautiful, but cramped.

All good- I love BA and the professionalism of the crew and pilots.

Great flight- smooth, nice crew, nice clean aircraft, departed a little late but arrived 10 early.

It was listed on my ticket as Finnair but there was no indication that the flight was Finnair. In fact the number was even different. There were no employees there until exactly 2 hours before so we had to wait in line at Iberia and hope

Sorting on line would have been appreciated Onward information on flights missed No ability to get seating arranged before we got to gate Very unfriendly at gate

The flight was Finnair but there was no indications anywhere that the checkin was for Finnair also. There was no one to ask. I think at a minimum they should list the code shares so people don’t stand in the wrong line for an hour.

I booked the flight with Finnair, which made the arrangements for downloading a boarding pass unnecessarily complicated. I wouldn't do that again. Instead I'd book direct with AA.

Flight ok, but me and other two passengers didn’t have connection with the entertainment in our seats. So, no movies, no games, no music… for 9 hours. The crew just told us that there’s nothing they can do but I noticed during the flight that there were empty seats, so they could have offered to us to change seats. Customer service could be better.

Had a nice flight to London on BA will fly with them again in the future

Besides the flight cancellation, everything else was prefect. Kudos to Malaysian Airlines.

Operated by American Airlines. Very chaotic and the crew was bit rough responding any enquiries. Restricted leg space.. Qatar would have been better

Qatar airways from Doha to guangzhau was excellent big bird Boeing 777 more room and smoothly flight, I Love it

It was good no problems made it on time for the next flight overseas!

The made us waiting and held our passports and boarding pass making us miss our flights

Not impressed. Only allowed one carry on on such a long flight.

The flight was good but my neighbor had the vent open full power for the whole flight and because the air was blowing from the side instead of from the top and I got very cold and ended up with a sore throat.

Bad experience with the delay n long wait time for connecting flight after missing the connection flight from Doha.

Wore experience due to delay and took me 3 days to reach my destination.

All over with Qatar airlines my experience was really bad due to delays and then putting me on different airlines and after 8 hours of wait I had to listen to their is no plane to fly for another 24 hours. Wore experience ever.

This booking was as a result of stolen identity and hacking my debit account. I reported it to my bank. The thief tried to book two flights, maybe more. Hopefully, Kayak will be able to block fraudulent bookings and charges better in the future.

Very friendly and efficient staff. Would definitely fly Saudia again.

Entertainment on all 4 business class seats were terrible audio and could barley hear. The 11 hour layover in Riyadh was a nightmare and no one told us that nightmare matter what we do or what we were willing to pay there were no places to rest or sleep and nine of the lounges allow you to enter them no matter what unless you are 4 hours or less from flight time. With a 78 yearold mother with me this is ridiculous. The employees of the airline in Riyadh and of the lounge treated us like servants or lower class people. Never again

I wonder why checking carry on bags while the checking process was done by Moroccan security. Is it question of trust or Morocco security system is not qualified enough?

Food could be better. Bread should be warm served with butter. Bread quality is bad and cold served.

Thw pla e was freezing by dar the cildest flight i’ve been on. The seats are comfortable the leg room is spacious and the seat is in leather very confy. Unfortunately old plane so no plugs the entertainment is limited the inflight internet is very expensive 20$ per hour for 50mb on a 17h you will take 2 times to contact your family and work. At this cost it goes very quick very high. The food is very mediocre A breakfast tastless A snack A meal super spicy A lot of improvement are to be made

Entertainment for non Arabic speakers is very limited. Seats were comfortable. Seat map while booking showed 2-2-2 config, but the flight had 1-2-1..

The seats’ reclined like premium economy seats, ie, not much.. but leg space was a lot l, so it did not feel cramped. Crew was very friendly and helpful.

Route from DC was ok nothing special or bad From Jeddah to cairo horrible First flight got delayed by 3 hours no explanation so what ever Arrived in cairo to find lock on my bag Saudia crew in cairo didn’t know who did could not open had to break my bag zipper to open my luggage

Good variety could have been better; crew not as friendly

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Recent round-trip first class deals

 
We’ve provided our cheapest round-trip first class flights to Istanbul found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
11/12Tue
2 stopsEmirates
36h 10mJFK-IST
11/19Tue
2 stopsEmirates
27h 15mIST-JFK
$18,405
8/20Tue
2 stopsEmirates
40h 15mJFK-IST
9/11Wed
2 stopsEmirates
26h 35mIST-JFK
$18,881
8/17Sat
1 stopEmirates
30h 40mMIA-IST
8/22Thu
1 stopEmirates
21h 40mIST-MIA
$22,651

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Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best deals for one-way first class flights to Istanbul found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
6/22Sat
1 stopEmirates
32h 25mJFK-IST
$13,436
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30h 40mMIA-IST
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Flights to Istanbul Airport

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Istanbul (IST)Türkiye

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