Delayed on Turkish Airlines from Manchester to Istanbul?
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,658
- Landed on time
- 66.3%
- Distance apart
- 2,665 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Manchester
£350each under UK law
Leaving Istanbul
£350each under UK law
Istanbul is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Manchester to Istanbul is 2,665 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Manchester, and the same £350 each coming back if a UK or EU airline operated the flight. It is per person, so four of you is £1,400.
How Turkish Airlines does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Manchester to Istanbul hits the same airspace and the same two airports, so the honest question is not whether the route is busy, it is whether this airline handles it better or worse than the others on it.
Turkish Airlines flies 91% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.
Against its own network it is 7 points worse than usual: Turkish Airlines lands on time 73.3% of the time across all 12,764 of its UK flights a year, against 66.3% here.
In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 1,000. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 2,665 km, same £350.
Everything we hold on Manchester to Istanbul · Turkish Airlines across every UK airport
Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, July 2025 to June 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports. Methodology and limitations.