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Delayed on Pegasus Airlines from Stansted to Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen)?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,689
Landed on time
70.6%
Distance apart
2,518 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Stansted

£350each under UK law

Leaving Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen)

£350each under UK law

Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.

Stansted to Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) is 2,518 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Stansted, 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 Pegasus Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Stansted to Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) 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.

On this route Pegasus Everyone
Landed on time 70.6% 71.9%
Average delay 14.7 min 13.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.2% 0.1%

Pegasus Airlines flies 67% 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 2 points better than usual: Pegasus Airlines lands on time 68.6% of the time across all 8,596 of its UK flights a year, against 70.6% here.

In money terms: about 7 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 500. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 2,518 km, same £350.

Airline Landed on time
AJet 74.6%

Everything we hold on Stansted to Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) · Pegasus 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.