Where can you get the best bird eye view of Istanbul? There are some great rooftop bars and restaurants for this as well as historic towers but the best bird eye view comes from a plane touring above Istanbul. You can join a plane tour over Istanbul to get the most out of the city by air sightseeing tours of Istanbul.
Seabird Airlines, Turkey’s first and only Air Taxi / Airline company to land and take off from water, operates DHC-6 Twin Otter Series planes which can take of with 19 passangers from Halic. The Istanbul air sightseeing tour takes approximately 20 minutes and starting from Ataturk Bridge on Halic you will have a chance to see Galata Tower, Rumeli, Anadolu Hisari, Maiden’s Tower.
Seabird Airlines is known for its regional scheduled services from Istanbul to Bozcaada, Bursa and Alacati. In the winter season the company is focusing on these Istanbul tours.
According to Kursad Arusan, the General Manager of Sea Bird Airlines “the large windows of Twin Otter planes provides a nice view of Istanbul and there is a great demand for these tours.
There is a short promotional video below about this fantastic Istanbul tour:
Seabird Airlines Istanbul city tour from Hip-Notics on Vimeo.
Below are the places you can see during the 20 minutes plane tour over Istanbul:
For other alternative Istanbul tours check our Bosphorus Cruise – Full Bosphorus Cruise and Short Bosphorus Tour post. You can visit our Istanbul tours pages for more Istanbul sightseeing tours.
Seabird Airlines, Turkey’s first and only Air Taxi / Airline company to land and take off from water, operates DHC-6 Twin Otter Series planes which can take of with 19 passangers from Halic. The Istanbul air sightseeing tour takes approximately 20 minutes and starting from Ataturk Bridge on Halic you will have a chance to see Galata Tower, Rumeli, Anadolu Hisari, Maiden’s Tower.
Seabird Airlines is known for its regional scheduled services from Istanbul to Bozcaada, Bursa and Alacati. In the winter season the company is focusing on these Istanbul tours.
According to Kursad Arusan, the General Manager of Sea Bird Airlines “the large windows of Twin Otter planes provides a nice view of Istanbul and there is a great demand for these tours.
There is a short promotional video below about this fantastic Istanbul tour:
Seabird Airlines Istanbul city tour from Hip-Notics on Vimeo.
The ticket prices for air sightseeing tours of Istanbul is 95 EUR per person per tour and the tickets are sold in http://www.flyseabird.com/ as well as in some 5-star hotels in Istanbul. For an air tour like this, ticket prices are very reasonable.
Below are the places you can see during the 20 minutes plane tour over Istanbul:
- Haydarpaşa Terminal (Haydarpasa Tren Gari)
- Selimiye Barracks (Selimiye Askeri Kışlası)
- Maiden’s Tower (Kız Kulesi)
- Taksim Square (Taksim Meydanı)
- Dolmabahce Palace (Dolmabahçe Sarayı)
- Bosphorus Bridge (Boğaziçi Köprüsü)
- Beylerbeyi Palace (Beylerbeyi Sarayı)
- Kuleli Military High School (Kuleli Askeri Lisesi)
- Bebek
- Roumeli Hissar Castle (Rumeli Hisarı)
- Anadolu Hissar Castle (Anadolu Hisarı)
- Bosphorus University Campus (Bogazici University Kampusu)
- Sarıyer
- Pierre Loti
- Feshane
- Rahmi Koc Museum (Rahmi Koç Müzesi)
- ST. Stephan of Bulgar (Bulgar Kilisesi)
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Fener Patrikhanesi)
- Fatih Mosque (Fatih Camii)
- Galata Tower (Galata Kulesi)
- Galata Bridge (Galata Köprüsü)
- Suleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii)
- Beyazit Tower (Beyazıt Kulesi)
- Spice Bazaar (Mısır Çarşısı)
- Hipodrom
- Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii)
- Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya)
- Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı)
For other alternative Istanbul tours check our Bosphorus Cruise – Full Bosphorus Cruise and Short Bosphorus Tour post. You can visit our Istanbul tours pages for more Istanbul sightseeing tours.
