Route brief · IST → EZE
Istanbul → Buenos Aires
$1,011
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $1,105 · difference $94
Nov 18 – Dec 9 · 21 nights
Turkish Airlines2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,077–$1,127
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 12 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEZEBuenos AiresEuropean bones, Latin hours — and a peso that has made this one of the cheapest big cities to spend a week in.Best windowOct–Dec · Mar–MayAirportsEzeiza (EZE) · Aeroparque (AEP)All routes into Buenos AiresWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 12 months, Nov is the cheapest for IST → EZE. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec · Mar–May.
Fares bottom out in November around $1,011 and peak in August near $1,640 — a $629 spread across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 21-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,011 for 12,270 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Buenos Aires, this fare ranks 15th — 42% above the $712 from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $875.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 22 · $977 (23% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,241 then versus $1,237 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $977, on Nov 22.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $1,011
9% below the $1,105 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Buenos Aires · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Ezeiza (EZE) · Aeroparque (AEP)
- Flight time
- ~18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,270 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,105 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec · Mar–May
IST → EZE, answered.
Is $1,011 a good price for Istanbul to Buenos Aires?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,105 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $94. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul to Buenos Aires?
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Buenos Aires are Oct–Dec · Mar–May — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Buenos Aires?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 12 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Istanbul to Buenos Aires?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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