Route brief · IST → SCL
Istanbul → Santiago
$1,073
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $1,275 · difference $202
Oct 27 – Nov 13 · 17 nights
Pegasus3 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,126–$1,277
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSCLSantiagoAndes on the skyline, vineyards an hour out, and the longest country in the world starting at the door.Best windowOct–AprAirportsArturo Merino Benítez (SCL)All routes into SantiagoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for IST → SCL. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $1,073 and peak in August near $1,661 — a $588 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 22.5 hours outbound, on a 17-night trip — ticketed under Pegasus, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,073 for 13,105 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 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Santiago, this fare ranks 13th — 43% above the $750 from Stockholm. For context, the middle fare among the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $967.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 4 · $1,050 (22% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,348 then versus $1,318 now, across 7 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 $1,039, on Oct 4.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $1,073
16% below the $1,275 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Santiago · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Arturo Merino Benítez (SCL)
- Flight time
- ~22.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,105 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,275 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Pegasus
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
IST → SCL, answered.
Is $1,073 a good price for Istanbul to Santiago?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,275 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $202. 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 Santiago?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Santiago are Oct–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Santiago?
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 10 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Santiago?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Pegasus. 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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