Abu Dhabi to Larnaca is 2,332 km and about 3 h 21 in the air, nonstop for the super-midsize class with margin left over. Two things are worth knowing before the date is fixed. The first is that the emirate has an executive airport inside the city, Al Bateen, which most people have never heard of and which is frequently the fastest way out. The second is that we are based in Cyprus, so westbound is the direction in which an aircraft is going home rather than being sent for – and a homeward leg is the one most likely to exist as an empty one. Our own floor is EUR 29,100 one way; the sum behind it is printed below. Written quotation inside 30 minutes, +357 95 119759 at any hour.
The Gulf to Cyprus nonstop in under three and a half hours, with no connection and no terminal at either end. Tell us the party and the dates and we will tell you what is genuinely in the region on them.
REQUEST A QUOTEA long westbound sector across the Gulf and the eastern Mediterranean, entirely routine for the cabin class and unremarkable in the air. The variables are on the ground: which field you leave the emirate from, and what the aeroplane was doing before you got into it.
Handling and slot conditions at both ends change from season to season. We confirm them against your actual dates rather than against a general rule, and whether Al Bateen can take a particular aeroplane is checked against that specific type rather than promised in advance.
Both ends have alternatives, and at the Gulf end the alternative is sometimes the better airport rather than the second choice. Give us the address you are leaving from and the address you are going to, and the fields follow from those rather than from a map.
| Field | Codes | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Dhabi Zayed | AUH / OMAA | Departure | Full business-aviation handling with a dedicated private terminal, and calmer on the ground than Dubai International. The default departure and the one we quote to unless something in your morning argues otherwise. |
| Al Bateen | AZI / OMAD | The executive field | An executive airport inside Abu Dhabi, reserved for business aviation. When the aeroplane fits, it is the quickest departure in the emirate by a wide margin, because the drive to it is a city drive rather than an airport run. We check it against the specific type and the specific date rather than offering it as a general promise. |
| Al Maktoum | DWC / OMDW | Dubai alternative | About 1 h 15 by road from Abu Dhabi, and worth comparing when the trip is really a Dubai trip and the emirate was only where you slept. Say where you will actually be on the morning and we will price both. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | Arrival | The main Cyprus field and the one most of our own flights work from. Business-aviation handling runs at any hour, which matters on a westbound sector where the arrival hour depends on a departure three and a half hours and two time zones earlier. |
| Paphos | PFO / LCPH | Alternative arrival | The western field, closer to Limassol and the west coast. Larnaca and Paphos are about 45 minutes apart by road and are not interchangeable for everyone; we quote the one that suits where you are actually going. |
Three and a third hours with a full cabin and real luggage puts this squarely in the super-midsize class. Below it you are trading cabin for a saving that the leg home tends to reclaim, and on a sector of this length the cabin is what you are buying.
The usual answer between Cyprus and the Gulf: super-midsize cabin, stand-up height and the range to do it nonstop with the hold full.
Challenger 350 ›Comparable reach with a quiet cabin, and frequently the aeroplane that is actually available on your date when the Challenger is not.
Legacy 500 ›Fast and long-legged for its class. The one to ask about when the schedule is tight at both ends, and the one most likely to suit Al Bateen.
Gulfstream G280 ›All three have pages of their own in the fleet section. A light jet would need a technical stop on this distance, and we would tell you that rather than present the stop as a feature.
From €29 100 one way, whole aircraft. That is our own floor rather than a quotation, and it is built from two things only: 3.35 h charged, under a two-hour minimum that this sector comfortably exceeds, multiplied by 8,700 EUR/h – the lower bound of a published range for this cabin class (LunaJets, Europe, undated) – rounded down. Neither of those two inputs knows which direction you are flying.
No published price for this city pair has reached us from a source we would be willing to reprint, so the table below carries hourly references for the class instead. They are useful for checking a quotation and no use at all for building one.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this route | Abu Dhabi to Larnaca | from €29 100 | Our own floor, not a quotation: 3.35 h charged (two-hour minimum applies) × 8,700 EUR/h, the lower bound of the published range for the cabin class (LunaJets, Europe, undated), rounded down |
| Hourly rate, midsize jets | Europe | 4,600 – 9,700 EUR per hour | Broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Hourly rate, from | Europe | from 2,900 – 3,500 EUR per hour | Broker published range, 19.02.2026 |
| Hourly rate, quoted in dollars | Light to midsize | 3,750 – 4,600 USD per hour | Broker published range, August 2026 |
| Empty leg | varies with the day | brokers publish discounts of 50 – 75% | Broker price pages, retrieved 2026 |
The first question on any quotation of this length is where the aeroplane starts, and westbound it is a more interesting question than it is going the other way. An aircraft that carried somebody out to the Gulf and is now due back in the eastern Mediterranean is a movement that had to happen with or without you. One flown into Abu Dhabi empty to collect you is not, and you will pay for the fetching sector. Ask us which of the two your quotation is describing, and ask it of every other quotation you hold.
The second question is what happens after you land. An aeroplane released in Cyprus prices differently from one that must return to the Gulf immediately, and on a sector of three and a half hours that difference is not a rounding item.
Every hourly figure above belongs to a third party and describes a class of aeroplane rather than this sector. They are reproduced so that you can audit a quotation, ours included. They are not our prices and they are not an offer. The only price we stand behind is the written one against your dates. Call +357 95 119759, 24/7.
GET A FIRM PRICETwo calendars overlap on this corridor and they pull against each other: the European summer going one way and Cyprus winter sun coming the other. Westbound you are travelling with the second of those rather than the first.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| June to September | Peak in both directions. Handling in Europe and parking on the island are the binding constraints rather than aircraft supply | Book early and ask about parking at the Cyprus end, not only about the aeroplane |
| October to April | Cyprus keeps flying while much of Europe slows down, and availability is good | The best months for short notice and the right months to ask what is repositioning your way |
| Easter and Christmas | Short, sharp peaks either side of the holiday itself | Fix the dates early. The days immediately around the holiday go first |
| May and late September | Shoulder. Everything open and pricing softer | The value weeks on this route, and the easiest ones to move a day within |
Whatever the month, tell us the hour you want to be off the ground in the emirate rather than only the morning. The arrival hour in Cyprus follows from it across two time zones, and if there is anything fixed waiting at the Larnaca end, that is the constraint the whole booking should be built around.
Cyprus is where a good many of these trips turn into something else. A second sector arranged alongside the first normally costs less added than bought separately a week later.
The outbound leg, published in full. If you are booking a round trip, having both halves quoted together is what lets the operator plan the aeroplane properly.
Larnaca to Abu Dhabi ›The continuation asked for more than any other out of Cyprus, and the usual shape of the journey when the island was the stop rather than the destination.
Larnaca to London ›Short, westbound and often the same-day second sector when Cyprus was never meant to be the end of the trip.
Larnaca to Athens ›Landing at the other Cyprus field instead? Paphos is about 45 minutes by road from Larnaca and closer to Limassol and the west coast – see Paphos to London for how that end works.
Tell us your dates and how many of you there are. Your dedicated flight advisor will come back with aircraft options and a firm price.
All published routes are listed on the route index. Also useful: the fleet, current empty legs, jet sharing.