- From
- Istanbul Airport metro station, signposted from arrivals. Buy or top up the İstanbulkart before the gates
- To
- Gayrettepe, on the M2, three stops from Taksim; Kağıthane three minutes earlier
- Luggage
- TCDD's rule for the line: nothing over 30 kg or larger than 120 x 50 x 60 cm, and no goods trolleys. Ordinary metro cars without racks.
- Runs
- 06:03–00:17
- Journey
- 30 min
Do not TAP a bank card. The reader will take it, and the tariff charges it as a three-ride single-use ticket: TRY 185 instead of TRY 42.34. Buy an anonymous İstanbulkart at the station before the gate.
The gate takes TRY 47.89 on entry — the fare of the longest ride possible from the airport — and refunds TRY 5.55 when you tap out at Gayrettepe. Load at least that much.
The price of the card itself is not published. No authority publishes it. It is small next to what the card saves.
Last train 00:17, at Gayrettepe 00:47 — after the M2 has stopped for the night on Sunday to Thursday (Metro İstanbul gives 06:00–00:00). On Friday and Saturday nights the M2 runs through as a night line, charged at double fare from 00:30.
The M11 is not a night line and has no Friday or Saturday extension: one timetable, every day. Between 00:17 and 06:03 see the H-2 bus and the Havaist coaches.
Kağıthane and Gayrettepe cost the same TRY 42.34; staying on to Halkalı costs TRY 47.89 — the whole of what the gate took.
Every Havaist and İETT airport fare here is set by the same İBB tariff, which was revised in February and again in July 2026. Check the tariff index for the current figure.
M11 metro to Gayrettepe: price for every party size
See TCDD's fare table