Your leave time
Enter the time on your ticket and your real journey to IST. The planner handles the backwards calculation.
IST · ISTANBUL
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Work backwards from your flight, build a personal departure timeline and check the bag you will carry through arrivals.
Your customs allowance
Switch to the arrival tab and calculate the allowance for your destination, item and quantity.
Reviewed
Planning logic is current. Live gate, delay and airline cut-off information remains with the operator.
IST DEPARTURE PLANNER
Exactly when should I leave?
Work backwards from your flight. Get a personal timeline, then take it with you.
FROM YOUR DOOR TO YOUR GATE
A flight time is not a leave time.
We subtract your airport time, journey and buffer, including an earlier calendar date when needed.
Flight time − airport time − travel − buffer
= Your leave time
= Your leave time
BEFORE YOU GO
Your departure checklist
0 of 5 ready · for this visit
Flight status, gate changes and actual airline deadlines
This planner uses the departure time you enter. It does not monitor your flight. A delay may not move bag-drop or boarding deadlines; keep the original plan unless your airline confirms otherwise.
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What is going in your bag?
Enter the total you will carry. See your allowance, the difference, and your next step here.
YOUR PACKING DECISION
Know before you buy.
Your amount goes in. A clear allowance check and an action come out.
- Choose where you clear customs
- Add your total and travel conditions
- Get your result without leaving this page
Travelling with food? Read the packing decision
Meat and dairy need a separate check
For Great Britain, do not pack pork, beef, lamb, goat, venison or dairy from EU countries; current restrictions include cheese and sandwiches. From most other countries, meat and dairy are also restricted. Infant and medical foods have specific exceptions. Ordinary packaged biscuits and chocolate are generally permitted, subject to their ingredients.
UK food rules, checked 12 September 2026 ↗For France from most non-EU countries, do not pack meat or milk products. Origin-specific and infant / medical-food exceptions apply. US and Canada: declare food and agricultural products; admissibility depends on the exact product and origin. This quantity calculator does not decide food admission.
EU personal food import rules ↗