The sector is held by AJet and Pegasus.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AYT Antalya to SAW Istanbul
Antalya Airport, Türkiye, to Sabiha Gokcen, Türkiye. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 25.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 463 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 11m
- Door to door
- 7h 56m
What AYT to SAW looks like
The AYT to SAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Antalya AYT to Istanbul SAW is a short sector of 463 km by great circle, flown nonstop 25.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 463 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 11m.
Antalya AYT is a major hub in the network held here, 182 scheduled destinations and 518.9 departures a day. Istanbul SAW has 143 destinations and 478.2 departures a day.
Antalya and Istanbul keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AYT to SAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYT to SAW | 25.86 | 181 | AJet, Pegasus |
| SAW to AYT | 25.29 | 177 | AJet, Pegasus |
Two carriers hold the sector, AJet and Pegasus, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 25.9 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 358.1 departures a week on AYT to SAW, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 11m block time on AYT to SAW. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AYT | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AYT before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AYT to SAW in the air, estimated | 71 min | 5h 41m |
| Formalities at SAW | 90 min | 7h 11m |
| Delivery run in Istanbul | 45 min | 7h 56m |
| Door to door | 476 min | 7h 56m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for AYT to SAW is 7h 56m.
A courier who leaves Antalya at 09:00 local is on the ground in Istanbul at about 10:11 local and at the door by 12:26 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Istanbul, the last useful departure from Antalya is around 14:34 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 62 of them join AYT to SAW.
| Connecting at | AYT to hub, flights a day | Hub to SAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Izmir ADB | 3.29 | 8.06 | 700 | 3h 01m |
| Ankara ESB | 11.71 | 18.57 | 730 | 3h 05m |
| Sofia SOF | 1.57 | 1.14 | 1,430 | 3h 56m |
| Beirut BEY | 2.3 | 5.57 | 1,503 | 4h 01m |
| Bucharest OTP | 6.14 | 0.86 | 1,425 | 4h 10m |
| Skopje SKP | 2.43 | 3.29 | 1,620 | 4h 12m |
With 25.9 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
62 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Izmir ADB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.3 times a day.
Through ADB the routing covers 700 km against the 463 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 01m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Ankara ESB at 3h 05m and Sofia SOF at 3h 56m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Antalya, Rhodes RHO is 248 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Istanbul, Istanbul IST is 63 km away by great circle and carries 294 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Antalya to Istanbul yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for AYT to SAW in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
More pairs through AYT and SAW: Dusseldorf to Antalya, Berlin to Antalya, Prague to Antalya, Stuttgart to Antalya, Hannover to Antalya, Hamburg to Antalya, Antalya to Dubai, Bratislava to Antalya.