
IST to YULCanada
Montreal
$462
usually $775
−40%
Most monthly lows $690–$798. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
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Flights · IST → PTY
Best fare, round trip
$850
−20%
below its usual $1,060
you keep $210
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $935 and $1,071. The drop beats 55% of measured fares on the board, over 12 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
PanamaPanama CitySkyline on one side, colonial casco on the other, and Copa’s hub making Latin America cheap to reach.Best windowDec–AprAirportsTocumen (PTY)Every route into Panama CityFare seasonality
Fares bottom out in February around $850 and peak in July near $1,161, 37% dearer, across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under Tarom, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $850 for 10,863 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Panama City, this fare ranks 6th — 30% above the $654 from Madrid. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul, where the middle fare is $851. The best time to be in Panama City: Dec–Apr.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 25 Jan '27, $929
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,143 then versus $1,187 now, across 22 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 $850, on 20 Feb '27.
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Cheapest in Feb, around $850
20% below the $1,060 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Istanbul to Panama City, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,060 round-trip. At $850 you're 20% below that, which we rate good for this route.
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Panama City are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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, Feb comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Tarom. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
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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