Rare1 stop · 12h
IST to YULCanada
Montreal
$462
usually $775
−40%
Most monthly lows $690–$798. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · IST → MBJ
Istanbul to Montego Bay
Best fare, round trip
$1,092
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 30 Nov
- Return
- Mon 7 Dec
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 16.5h
- Airline
Lufthansa
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
JamaicaMontego BayJamaica’s tourist door — the north coast within an hour, the Blue Mountains a long and worthwhile drive.Best windowDec–AprAirportsSangster (MBJ)Every route into Montego BayFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,092 for 10,006 km each way, that works out to about $55 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Montego Bay, this fare ranks 10th — 2.4× the $447 we hold from London. For context, the middle fare among the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $745. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Montego Bay: Dec–Apr.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 33% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,186 then versus $1,574 now, across 18 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 $875, on 21 Sep.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 111 days priced, from 52 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
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November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $1.5k. Compare fares from this day.234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829Monday 30 November: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.
December 2026
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January 2027
Friday 1 January: $1.8k. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 2 January: $1.9k. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 3 January: $1.8k. Compare fares from this day.4Tuesday 5 January: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.6789101112131415161718192021Friday 22 January: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 23 January: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.2425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Sangster (MBJ)
- Flight time
- ≈16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,006 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
Good to know
IST → MBJ, answered.
How far in advance should I book IST → Montego Bay?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Istanbul to Montego Bay?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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