
The old city airport of Istanbul is an international airport and offers several international connections.
Passengers can move from the arrival hall to the departure hall without passport control.
The boarding pass was checked, however.
Make sure that you check on at the airline desk to get your boarding pass before you cue for the blue transit checkpoint.
The staff there will send you back to the airline desk if you do not have a boarding pass.
At Pegasus desk, the personell was again very unfriendly and rude.
The athmosphere here is very bad.
You can smell the bad attitude and scammers everywhere.
Nevertheless, you can get some sleep in a cosy sleep cabin like this:

To register for your cabin go to Kepler club right next to the transit hall entrance.
One hour costs 15 euros as of October, 2025.
You can lock your belonging into a locker.
The cabin offers entertainment and USB A and USB C sockets for charging your mobile phone.
The bathrooms, showers, and toilets are for common use.
You can take your towel from the cupboard left of the lockers.
In the shower, they provide shampoo and shower gel.
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