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Galata Tower
The stone tower above Beyoglu, standing since the fourteenth century.
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Where Europe meets Asia
Turkey's largest city, on the Bosphorus between two continents. Business jets use Ataturk, which kept general aviation after scheduled flights moved out in 2019.
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The stone tower above Beyoglu, standing since the fourteenth century.
Tea, saffron and dried fruit, trading beside the Golden Horn since 1664.
Sixty one covered streets and more than four thousand shops under one roof.
We list what operators publish and take no commission. Your enquiry goes to them.
Availability is re-read from operator sources through the day, and each leg carries its timestamp.
The figure shown is the operator's own, for the whole aircraft. Where none is published we say so.
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Istanbul is the hinge between Europe and Asia and a large private aviation market in its own right. Legs here are less frequent on our board than in the western European corridors, which makes an alert more useful than a daily check.
What the board has recorded so far runs in from Salzburg. Central European traffic into Turkey is the pattern to watch on this route.
Which side of the Bosphorus you land on decides your day. Crossing the city at the wrong hour can take longer than the flight.
For what a seat works out at across the whole board, by aircraft type and in the operator's own currency, see how much an empty leg private jet costs.
Where an operator publishes a price it is shown exactly as listed, as a whole-aircraft figure rather than a per-seat fare. Where none is published the card says so rather than estimating.
Central European sectors to Istanbul are around three hours. Common types include the Citation XLS, the Challenger 350 and the Legacy 500. You can also browse the whole list by aircraft type.
Reading the record.
These are counts from our own board, read when you opened this page, so they reflect the operators we read rather than the whole market, and they are a record of what was listed, not a forecast. New legs appear with days of notice, which is what the route alert is for.
An empty leg exists because of the paid charter around it, so it can be sold or moved without notice. Every listing here is recorded from what the operator published, with the date we last saw it. Treat it as a strong indication rather than a guarantee, and confirm with the operator before planning around it.
Empty Leg List is a listing service. We are not a broker, not an operator, and not party to any booking, and we take no commission. Your enquiry goes to the operator covering the route, who confirms availability and final price with you directly. If nothing matches, set a route alert and we email you when a leg on that corridor is listed.
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Live legs leaving from, or landing at, other airports within 150 km of IST. A leg from an airport an hour's drive away can be the one that fits; the distance shown is from IST to the airport the leg uses, in a straight line.
Every leg we have recorded with one end at Istanbul since 30 July 2026, whether it is still on the board or not. A leg leaves the board when the operator stops publishing it, and we cannot tell from outside whether it was sold or withdrawn, so these are counts of what was listed, not of what flew.
One bar per calendar month, from the first month in our record to the furthest date an operator has published so far. Grey bars are months already past, gold is this month and the months ahead. A blank month is a month we have no record for, and before August 2026 that means we were not yet recording. The months ahead hold only what operators have published up to now, and most empty legs appear days or weeks before departure, so those bars will keep growing. The shape says how far ahead operators publish, not how busy a month will be.
| Airport at the other end | Legs out | Legs in | On the board | Priced | Last seen |
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Legs out left Istanbul, legs in landed at Istanbul. Airports are named as the operator published them, so a row is whatever the operator wrote. The few legs where both ends resolve to Istanbul are counted above but have no other end to list.