Route brief · MNL → IST
Manila → Istanbul
$504
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $615 · difference $111
Nov 14 – Nov 18 · 4 nights
Saudia1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $577–$633
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefISTIstanbulTwo continents, one skyline of minarets. Turkish Airlines’ mega-hub means constant fare battles.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIstanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)All routes into IstanbulWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for MNL → IST. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $504 and peak in January near $874 — a $370 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Saudia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $504 for 9,114 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 8th — 34% above the $376 from New York. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $585 then versus $596 now, across 6 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 $497, on Oct 22.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Nov · around $504
18% below the $615 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Manila → Istanbul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,114 km each way
- Typical price
- $615 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Saudia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
MNL → IST, answered.
Is $504 a good price for Manila to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $615 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $111. 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 Manila to Istanbul?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Istanbul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MNL → Istanbul?
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 5 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 Manila to Istanbul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Saudia. 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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