Paris to Istanbul is 2,219 km and about 3 h 13 non-stop out of Le Bourget, comfortably within a super-midsize cabin with everybody and everything aboard. The complications are administrative rather than aeronautical: Istanbul is a slot-heavy, two-continent city with three very different fields, and Turkey is a third-country arrival from Schengen. Indicative price from €27 900 for the whole aircraft, one way. Give us the dates early and the desk will handle the rest, at any hour, on +357 95 119759.
Three hours and a quarter south-east, and the only decision that will genuinely change your day is which side of the Bosphorus you land on. Crossing that water by road at the wrong hour costs more time than the first hour of the flight. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs, arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTEThe flying is the straightforward half. Le Bourget is wholly business aviation, eight kilometres from the périphérique, and with 55,751 movements in 2023 the busiest such field in Europe, so the departure is quick. Istanbul is the half that needs thought: three airports across two continents, all of them busy, all of them working to slot discipline, and an arrival that is a full third-country entry rather than a walk to a car.
This is the section that decides the trip. Istanbul has three fields and they are not interchangeable: the water between them is the reason. Tell us the address you are going to rather than the city, and we will name the airport that gets you there soonest.
| Airport | Codes | Distance | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | 2,219 km | Where the leg starts, and the field every figure on this page is measured from. Wholly business aviation, eight kilometres from the périphérique, 55,751 movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023). Night movements are restricted, which matters if your departure would be late in the evening. |
| Istanbul Airport | IST / LTFM | arrival | The default and the field every figure here is measured to. On the European side towards the Black Sea, one of the largest airports in the world by scheduled traffic, and business aviation operates there within the same slot discipline as everyone else. The right answer for most European-side destinations and for any onward scheduled connection. |
| Istanbul Atatürk | ISL / LTBA | arrival alternative | You are staying near the old city or along the European shore of the Bosphorus. The city's former main airport, now used largely by general and business aviation, and it removes a long drive out to the new field. Availability is the question to ask us about in advance. |
| Sabiha Gökçen | SAW / LTFJ | arrival alternative | Your destination is on the Asian side. Crossing the Bosphorus by road at the wrong hour costs more time than the first hour of the flight, so this is not a second-best but the correct answer for that half of the city. It is a busy scheduled airport, so the slot conversation applies here too. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distances calculated great-circle. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
Two and a quarter thousand kilometres is a real sector, and the cabin is where the money and the comfort both sit. Everything below crosses it; what differs is how many of you do so without anybody counting the minutes.
The default and what we quote unless told otherwise. A Challenger 350, Legacy 500 or Gulfstream G280 takes eight or nine with full luggage non-stop, with a cabin that works for three hours rather than merely holds you.
See the fleet ›Non-stop with a lighter load and a shorter passenger list, and a sensible saving when there are four or five of you. We will say plainly where the limit falls rather than quote it and adjust later.
See the fleet ›For a larger party, for a night departure where sleep matters, or when Istanbul is a staging point for somewhere considerably further east.
See the fleet ›Indicative price from €27 900 for the whole aircraft, one way. It is a floor, not a quotation: it describes a sensible aircraft on an ordinary day, and the variables above and below it are large.
The cabin moves it most. After that: where the aircraft was before it came to Le Bourget and where it must be afterwards; whether a crew can do this out and back inside a duty day, which at 3 h 13 each way is rarely the case without an overnight; and handling, parking and slots at a very busy Istanbul field. None of these are surprises, but all of them are real money, and a printed hourly rate multiplied by three hours accounts for none of them.
Where savings genuinely appear: a return booked as one trip rather than two one-ways; and empty legs, which occur on this corridor because aircraft reposition between western Europe and Turkey regularly. Both require your dates to have some give in them.
GET A FIRM PRICEThe business calendar runs March to June and September to November at both ends, and it is the one that fills this corridor. The Turkish summer is busy too, but most of that traffic is aimed at the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts rather than at Istanbul itself.
Book early whenever your arrival hour is fixed. Slots at the Istanbul fields are the binding constraint far more often than aircraft availability is, and the popular morning and early-evening windows go first. Book early too when passengers hold a mix of nationalities, because entry requirements vary by nationality and that is the step that cannot be hurried at the last moment.
Short notice is workable, with one honest caveat: the paperwork has a floor. Tell us as early as you can and the administrative side stays invisible to you; tell us on the day and it becomes the thing everybody is waiting for.
Istanbul sits at a junction, and a good share of these trips continue rather than return. Arranged together with the outbound leg, the second sector uses the aircraft already assigned to you.
Bodrum, Dalaman and the Aegean fields are short hops from Istanbul. If the coast is the real destination, say so and we will quote it directly instead of adding a domestic leg to the end of a long day.
See published routes ›Our own desk is in Cyprus, and Larnaca is a short sector from Istanbul. A two-stop week across this corner of the map is a shape we quote regularly.
Paris to Larnaca ›Aircraft reposition between Europe and Turkey often enough that empty legs appear on this corridor with some regularity. Flexible dates are the price of using one.
Current empty legs ›Tell us your dates and how many of you there are. Your dedicated flight advisor will come back with aircraft options and a firm price.
All published routes are listed on the route index. Also useful: the fleet, current empty legs, jet sharing.