1,016 km · International

Budapest Liszt Ferenc (BUD) – İstanbul (IST)

From Sep 18, 2026 to Oct 16, 2026, 251 flights operated between Budapest Liszt Ferenc and İstanbul (both directions), counted by us from flight boards published by Turkey's airports authority.

Our own count · Oct 16, 2026 according to Turkey's airports authority every scheduled flight on the route

Flights per day

Counted by us from airport flight boards, day by day. This is not an official statistic, and today and yesterday are left out until all flights have landed.

This source does not record actual departure times, so the on-time rate cannot be measured on this route.

Airlines on this route

  1. Turkish Airlines 68.5%
  2. Wizz Air 31.1%

Sep 18, 2026 – Oct 16, 2026

By direction

BUD → IST

Flights operated
125

IST → BUD

Flights operated
126

BUD → IST and IST → BUD counted separately.

Official monthly figures

according to Eurostat · December 2024

Passengers per month

The most recent periods24 periods
PeriodPassengers 2023Passengers 2024Change vs last year
January18,77938,701▲ 106.1%
February18,71738,964▲ 108.2%
March21,28342,787▲ 101.0%
April34,22740,540▲ 18.4%
May36,47040,749▲ 11.7%
June38,14742,925▲ 12.5%
July40,38947,070▲ 16.5%
August41,75744,120▲ 5.7%
September39,75943,867▲ 10.3%
October41,48949,151▲ 18.5%
November36,02044,344▲ 23.1%
December38,70344,530▲ 15.1%
Year to date (Jan–Dec)405,740517,748▲ 27.6%

Seats offered per month

The most recent periods24 periods
PeriodSeats offered 2023Seats offered 2024Change vs last year
January25,50049,202▲ 92.9%
February23,47045,503▲ 93.9%
March27,21450,107▲ 84.1%
April45,09448,721▲ 8.0%
May44,16649,106▲ 11.2%
June44,85750,709▲ 13.0%
July47,36953,871▲ 13.7%
August48,94651,581▲ 5.4%
September46,83850,193▲ 7.2%
October47,76254,889▲ 14.9%
November42,53853,521▲ 25.8%
December49,80257,846▲ 16.2%
Year to date (Jan–Dec)493,556615,249▲ 24.7%

Load factor (calculated)

Calculated by us: passengers ÷ seats offered, both from the same source and shown on this page.

The most recent periods24 periods
PeriodLoad factor 2023Load factor 2024Change vs last year
January73.6%78.7%▲ 6.9%
February79.7%85.6%▲ 7.4%
March78.2%85.4%▲ 9.2%
April75.9%83.2%▲ 9.6%
May82.6%83.0%▲ 0.5%
June85.0%84.6%▼ 0.5%
July85.3%87.4%▲ 2.5%
August85.3%85.5%▲ 0.2%
September84.9%87.4%▲ 2.9%
October86.9%89.5%▲ 3.0%
November84.7%82.9%▼ 2.1%
December77.7%77.0%▼ 0.9%
Year-to-date average (Jan–Dec)81.6%84.2%▲ 3.1%

Monthly totals for both directions, published by Eurostat. Latest month available: December 2024. Eurostat publishes route figures about two years after the month ends, so recent months are not yet available. These are official counts from a statistics agency. The chart above is our own day-by-day count, so the two will not match exactly.

Airlines on this route

Sep 18, 2026 – Oct 16, 2026
AirlineScheduled flights Share Cancelled
Turkish Airlines TK 172 68.5% 0
Wizz Air W6 78 31.1% 0
Other airlines (each under 5%) 1 0.4% 0

Counted from flight boards. Codeshares are merged into one flight; airlines under 5% of flights are grouped, because airline codes on flight boards are sometimes reused by another carrier.

Daily figures
PeriodFlights operated BUD → ISTIST → BUD Cancelled
Oct 16, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 15, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 14, 2026 9 5 4 0
Oct 13, 2026 12 5 7 0
Oct 12, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 11, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 10, 2026 10 5 5 0
Oct 9, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 8, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 7, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 6, 2026 11 5 6 0
Oct 5, 2026 9 5 4 0
Oct 4, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 3, 2026 10 5 5 0
Oct 2, 2026 8 4 4 0
Oct 1, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 30, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 29, 2026 11 5 6 0
Sep 28, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 27, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 26, 2026 10 5 5 0
Sep 25, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 24, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 23, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 22, 2026 11 5 6 0
Sep 21, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 20, 2026 8 4 4 0
Sep 19, 2026 10 5 5 0
Sep 18, 2026 4 3 1 0

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