IST Airport Code: Istanbul Airport IATA & ICAO

Overview

IST is the IATA airport code stored in this dataset for Istanbul Airport in Istanbul, Turkey (TR). The matching ICAO identifier is LTFM. Travel agents see IST on tickets, baggage tags, and GDS segment city pairs (six letters, for example ISTLHR when the other airport is London Heathrow). ICAO LTFM is used in flight plans and ATC, not as the two-or-three-character GDS city-pair token. The IANA timezone recorded for local GDS times at this airport is Europe/Istanbul. This code page explains how IST is used in PNR text. It is not a live departures board. Terminal maps, contact phone numbers, lounge lists, and published flight schedules are not available in this dataset and are not invented here. Nearby airports stored for Turkey: SAW (Istanbul), AYT (Antalya). Related IATA city code in this dataset: IST. To turn a booked PNR that contains IST into a customer itinerary, paste the cryptic text into the PNR parser.

How to use this page

1. Confirm the three-letter token on the ticket or PNR is IST, not a similar code.
2. Open the PNR parser and paste the full itinerary that contains IST.
3. Convert and check that city and timezone match this record.
4. Use the airport-code page if you only need IATA versus ICAO for IST.
5. Do not copy terminal or lounge claims from other websites onto this page. They are not stored here.

Example

Example GDS segment using this airport as origin: 2 AI 101 J 12OCT 1 ISTLHR HK1 0945 1510 12OCT E The parser should read IST as departure. Times 0945/1510 are local as printed, not converted to your PC clock. If IST is missing from the dataset, city and timezone enrichment stay empty rather than guessed.

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