TK1046Turkish Airlines · OTP → IST
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Route confirmed Turkish Airlines

TK1046 BucharestOTP · 21:40 IstanbulIST · 23:05

TK1046 by Turkish Airlines flies from Bucharest (OTP) to Istanbul (IST) for the Fri, Sep 18 departure.

Right nowEn route to Istanbul · off blocks 21:44 · 4 min late
En route

en route from OTP to IST

En routeTK1046 · position estimated
OTPBucharestISTIstanbul
Estimated from the boards

Board estimate · gate and arrival times. Off blocks 21:44.

Where the minutes go

last 7 operations · gate push → arrival
0+30+60+90 min
09-19
+4 gate · +0 arrival
09-18
+4 gate · +0 arrival
09-17
+0 gate · +0 arrival
09-16
+5 gate · +0 arrival
09-15
−1 gate · +0 arrival
09-14
−4 gate · +0 arrival
09-13
+14 gate · +15 arrival

The bar is how late it left the gate; the ring is where it actually arrived. Board clocks, not estimates.

The last 30 days

arrival outcome per operation

median arrival +0 min · 0 cancelled · 10 operations tracked

The route today

live boards
OTPBucharestOn-time likelyOTP delay board →
ISTIstanbulOn-time likelyIST delay board →
OTP→ISTevery carrier, schedules and on-time historyRoute intelligence →

Weather lens

Delay & cancellation outlook for this flight

Early read, sample still building
27%Chance of 15+ min delay
4.3%Chance of cancellation

Conditions at OTP and IST are near their clear-air norm right now, so this reflects the route's recent baseline rather than a weather penalty. For this route and airline, under conditions like today's, over the last 90 days. This route's tracked sample is still thin — treat these as an early read, not a precise forecast.

Pro Flight Search tracking, 90 days · the weather × delay correlation study → · live weather risk by airport →

When it flies

scheduled departures
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Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time. Today is highlighted.

Other Bucharest to Istanbul flights today

same route · Turkish Airlines
TK1044departs 09:30
TK1042departs 12:55
TK1040departs 15:55

If TK1046 is cancelled, these are the other Turkish Airlines nonstop flights from Bucharest to Istanbul on the same day, with scheduled departure times in OTP local time. Most flights posting a delay still operate — rebooking usually only beats a very large posted delay. Every airline on this route →

How TK1046 actually runs

Pro Flight Search has tracked every published board update for TK1046 across the OTP and IST boards: schedule changes, gate pushes and actual clocks. Usually lands on time. Based on 9 confirmed landings · 9/9 within 15 min of schedule.

The verdict above is that record speaking, so it reflects how TK1046 operates rather than what the timetable promises. Numbers refresh as new flights operate.

Technical record

How this operation is measured

board clocksaircraft

Board log

scheduled → actual, per operation
09-19OTP 21:40 21:44 (+4)IST 23:05 (+0)
09-18OTP 21:40 21:44 (+4)IST 23:05 (+0)
09-17OTP 21:35 (+0)IST 23:05 (+0)
09-16OTP 21:40 21:45 (+5)IST 23:10 (+0)
09-15OTP 21:35 21:34 (−1)IST 23:05 (+0)
09-14OTP 21:35 21:31 (−4)IST 23:10 (+0)
09-13OTP 21:35 21:49 (+14)IST 23:05 23:20 (+15)
09-12OTP 21:45 22:19 (+34)IST 23:05
09-11OTP 21:35 21:23 (−12)IST 23:15 22:40 (−35)
09-10OTP IST 23:15 (+0)

Aircraft

Recent tails: TC-LGT.

Board clocks recorded as OTP and IST published them.

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