Meeting someone at Istanbul İstanbul Airport.

İstanbul Airport has one passenger terminal, so everyone comes out into the same arrivals area. That makes meeting simpler, and busier when several flights land together. Agree one exact spot in the hall.

Put the exact spot in your Greet. Your guest sees it on their phone from the moment they land at IST, even without signal.

• Inside the arrivals hall, a few metres back from the doors passengers come through.
• At one landmark you can both name: a numbered exit, a café sign or the information desk.
• Not right at the barrier, where everyone crowds and nobody can see past the first row.

International arrivals go through passport control and customs before the arrivals hall. Domestic flights within Turkey are usually much quicker.

Istanbul runs on Europe/Istanbul time. The clock at the top of this page shows the local time now.

Want the sign to feel local? "Hoş geldiniz" means welcome in Turkish. Put it in the line above their name.

If they could be flying into a different airport, check which one first. Within 250 km of IST: Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen SAW (64 km), Corlu TEQ (70 km), Bursa YEI (133 km), Burgas BOJ (176 km), Balikesir BZI (196 km).