Salt Lake City (SLC) to Istanbul (IST): 6,256 miles (10,068 km) great-circle, about 13h 00m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $1285 round-trip on Frontier, with 3 stops, departing June 9, 2026.
$1285 round-trip, Frontier F92575, departing 2026-06-09 at 13:50, returning 2026-07-14. The recorded itinerary left on a Tuesday, returning on a Tuesday 35 nights later; the fare was observed 45 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $1285, it ranked 26th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from SLC (median $470). That is 20.5 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the SLC median of 24.7 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from SLC of similar length: Moscow (5,514 mi) at $1958 and Tokyo (5,473 mi) at $1104.
Frontier had the cheapest fare on 25 of 30 SLC routes. It is the 2nd longest of the 30 routes we track from SLC.
Of 117 departure airports with a fare to Istanbul, Salt Lake City (SLC) ranked 110th at $1285. Lowest: $60 from Antalya (AYT); highest: $1639 from Wellington (WLG); 29 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Pegasus Airlines (13), Qatar (7), WestJet (6), Wizz Air (6), Gulf Air (5) and Turkish (5), plus 51 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/Denver, Europe/Istanbul; flight time is our estimate.