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Q: How do I get from Istanbul city centre to Istanbul airport?

Havaist coach to Taksim: TRY 470 for one traveler, 90 min, boarding at Taksim Square, the Havaist stop. The first one leaves at 00:30 and is at the airport by about 02:00; the last at 23:30.

City to airport · One way · All prices are totals for 1 adult · All service hours

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The cheapest way to the airport. Nothing listed is quicker.

Havaist coach to Taksim

Havaist · Havaist (İBB), fare set by İBB — line HVL-9

90 min rideEvery 40 min00:30–23:30

Taksim SquareIstanbul Airport

Non-stop

TRY 470total for 1 adultTRY 470 eachBuy ticketOn Havaist, fare set by İBB

Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. Taksim Square, the Havaist stop

TRY 470 per person, flat. Card, online ticket or İstanbulkart only — no cash, and no transfer, concession, season or single-use tickets. Children under six ride free on a lap; from six they pay full fare. A return bought online is 40% off the return leg and valid for three days.

Luggage. Two bags of no more than medium size free per passenger; TRY 120 for each bag beyond that. Tell the crew your stop when you hand a bag over — it is unloaded only there.

Hours. Direct from Taksim at 00:30, then nothing until 02:45; from there roughly every 40 to 80 minutes through the day to 23:30, calling at Beşiktaş Meydan, Zincirlikuyu Metrobüs and 4. Levent on the way.

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Night only

İETT bus H-2 to Mecidiyeköy (night only)

H-2 · İETT

105 min ride00:00–05:20

Mecidiyeköy MetrobüsIstanbul Airport

Non-stop

TRY 92.40total for 1 adultTRY 92.40 eachBuy ticketOn İETT

Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. Mecidiyeköy Metrobüs, beside Şişli-Mecidiyeköy on the M2

TRY 92.40 on an İstanbulkart — two boardings at TRY 46.20 each. A bank card or single-use ticket costs TRY 120. Night bus fares can double between 00:30 and 05:30, and it is not published whether the H-2 is exempt, so the 01:10 and 03:30 departures may cost twice this.

Luggage. An İETT express bus; İETT publishes no luggage rule for it.

Hours. Four departures a day from Mecidiyeköy — 00:00, 02:20, 04:40 and 05:20 — identical on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and none by day; the same night-fare doubling question applies as on the way out.

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Fares are the same ticket ridden the other way; the boarding points, hours and, where a ride differs by direction, the ride time are read for this direction. Also runs to the airport, boarding point and hours in town not recorded yet: M11 metro to Gayrettepe, Havaist coach to Sultanahmet, Havaist coach to Aksaray, Havaist coach to Kadıköy, Pre-booked private transfer, Welcome Pickups transfer to Sabiha Gökçen Airport from Istanbul Airport. Every way from Istanbul airport into Istanbul

How do I get from Istanbul city centre to Istanbul airport?

For one traveler the Havaist coach to Taksim is the way we recommend: TRY 470 in total, 90 min, boarding at Taksim Square. The first one leaves at 00:30 and is at the airport by about 02:00; the last leaves at 23:30.

First departures

Earliest at the airport first

İETT bus H-2 to Mecidiyeköy (night only)

First 00:00 from Mecidiyeköy Metrobüs, at the airport by about 01:45.

Havaist coach to Taksim

First 00:30 from Taksim Square, at the airport by about 02:00.

Arrival times add the recorded ride time to the first departure; no walking or waiting is added.

Early flight?

Between the last M11 and the morning, the H-2 bus leaves Mecidiyeköy Metrobüs at 00:00, 02:20, 04:40 and 05:20; the Havaist coach leaves Taksim at 00:30, then not again until 02:45. The meter taxi runs at any hour.

Before you leave for Istanbul Airport

From the centre to each way out

Early flights

Tickets

Tap an İstanbulkart at the metro gate on the way out too, not a bank card — the same reader charges a contactless card as three single-use tickets, TRY 185 instead of TRY 42.34, in either direction.

Questions

When is the first Havaist coach to Taksim from Taksim Square?

00:30. It reaches the airport at about 02:00.

Where does the Havaist coach to Taksim leave from in Istanbul?

Taksim Square, the Havaist stop. First departure 00:30, last 23:30.

My flight is early. What runs before the first train?

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