AirportsNairobi

Nairobi to Istanbul

🇰🇪NBO🇹🇷ISTJomo Kenyatta International Airport to İstanbul AirportKenya to Türkiye
Distance
4,808 km
2,988 miles
Frequency
15 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airline
1
Turkish Airlines
Typical delay
19 min
48 departures

The route

Great circle, 4,808 km
NBOIST4,808 km
4,808 km (2,988 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on this route are typically 19 minutes late (likely 12 to 27), across 48 departures we tracked between 2026-03-25 and 2026-08-01.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

1 airline with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

1 of 9 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
TK 608Turkish Airlines03:10not seen yet45

Departure times are local to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured