Bahrain to Larnaca is 1,885 km and about 2 h 47 in the air, flown in one go by a super-midsize cabin – Challenger 350, Legacy 500 or Gulfstream G280. You leave from the one civil airport the Kingdom has, which removes an argument most departures start with, and you land at the field our own operations desk sits beside. Our floor is €12 500 one way for the whole aeroplane and the sum behind it is printed further down. +357 95 119759, answered at any hour.
Out of the Gulf and back across the water in under three hours. This is the homeward half of a pairing we fly constantly, which is the single most useful thing to know about it before you ask for a number – the aeroplane on your date is more often finishing a job than starting one. Tell us the party and the dates and we will say what is genuinely in the region.
REQUEST A QUOTETwo hours and three quarters north-west, from an island in the Gulf to an island in the eastern Mediterranean. The flying asks nothing unusual of the class. What is worth understanding sits at the two ends and in the direction of travel. Bahrain has exactly one civil airport and therefore no domestic fallback, so a problem on your date becomes a conversation about the causeway rather than about another runway. And Cyprus is where we are based, which on this heading makes the aeroplane a returning one rather than a positioned one.
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026; distances computed great-circle. We publish no movement count for Bahrain: the EBAA dataset we cite elsewhere on this site counts European airports only and Bahrain does not appear in it. Handling and slot conditions move with the season and we confirm them against your dates rather than against a general rule.
An unusual shape for a route page: the departure end offers you no choice at all, and every alternative worth naming is either a drive across a causeway or a separate flight. The choice that does exist is at the Cypriot end, and it is a choice about which side of the island you are going to.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain International | BAH / OBBI | Departure | The single civil airport of the country, on Muharraq island and a short drive from Manama – which on an island this size means the ground leg before the flight costs minutes rather than the hour a large Gulf city usually takes. Full business-aviation handling and a strong regional presence of handling agents. The other side of having one airport is that there is no second Bahraini field to fall back on, and we would rather tell you that when the dates are set than on the morning. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | Arrival | Cyprus’s main field, handling business aviation whatever the clock says, and the airport most of our own flying begins and ends at. Landing outside office hours is routine here rather than something that has to be specially negotiated. |
| Paphos | PFO / LCPH | Alternative arrival | The western field, and the right one for Limassol and the west coast. Larnaca and Paphos are about 45 minutes apart by road and they are not interchangeable for everybody. Give us the address you are going to and we quote the airport that suits it rather than the one that looks closer on a map. |
| Dammam | DMM / OEDF | Alternative departure, by road | Across the King Fahd Causeway in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It is not a second Bahraini airport and we do not present it as one, but for a party already on the mainland – or on a date when Bahrain will not work – it is a real alternative on the road rather than in the air. |
| Doha Hamad | DOH / OTHH | Regional alternative | Twenty-five minutes further on by air, and often part of the same trip rather than a substitute for this one. Worth raising at the enquiry if the week has a Qatari stop in it: added to the first sector it is a different number from the same sector bought on its own. |
Close to three hours with a full cabin and genuine luggage is super-midsize work. You can go a class smaller and the hourly figure will look better; the saving tends to come back at you in what has to be left behind, or on the return leg, and we would rather argue about that now than at the aircraft steps.
Our usual first answer between Cyprus and the Gulf: broad cabin, standing height, and the range to fly this nonstop with the hold full. If the party is coming off a working week rather than a weekend, the hold is not a detail.
Challenger 350 ›Comparable reach and a notably quiet cabin, and frequently the aeroplane that is free when the Challenger is not. Naming both at the enquiry gets you airborne sooner than insisting on one of them.
Legacy 500 ›Fast and long in the legs for the class. The type to ask for when both ends of the day are already committed – a morning that has to finish in Bahrain and something in Cyprus that will not wait for you.
Gulfstream G280 ›From €12 500 one way for the whole aeroplane. That is our own floor, rounded down – it is neither a quotation nor a tariff. The date, what is genuinely free on it and the airport charges all move it; send the dates and we confirm within half an hour.
Nobody has published a whole-aircraft route price for these two cities, in either direction, from a source we would be willing to reprint. So instead of conjuring a figure we show the sum. The flight time on this page is 2.78 hours and that is what is charged, a two-hour minimum applying to the class in any case; the rate is the lowest published entry rate we can find for the cabin class; the product is rounded down. A number invented to fill a blank would be worse than a blank. A sum with its workings on the page is something you can argue with, and we would rather you did.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this route | Bahrain to Larnaca | from €12 500 | Our own floor, not a quotation: 2.78 h charged (a two-hour minimum applies) × 4 500 EUR/h, the published from-rate for the cabin class (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), rounded down |
| Hourly, midsize cabins | Europe | 4,600 – 9,700 EUR per hour | Broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Hourly, entry level | Europe | from 2,900 – 3,500 EUR per hour | Broker published range, 19.02.2026 |
| Hourly, dollar-quoted | Light to midsize | 3,750 – 4,600 USD per hour | Broker published range, August 2026 |
| Empty leg | depends on the day | discounts of 50 – 75% are published | Broker price pages, retrieved 2026 |
Everything in that table except our own floor was published by somebody else, and it is reprinted so that you have a yardstick to hold against any offer, ours included. None of it is our offer and none of it binds anybody. What actually decides the number on a sector of this length is where the aeroplane starts and what it is due to do next. On this heading those two questions usually have a friendly answer: Cyprus is home, so westbound the machine is more often going back to where it lives than being sent somewhere it will have to be recovered from afterwards. Put the same question to every quotation on your desk and see which of them can answer it.
The second question is the return. If the aeroplane waits for you in Cyprus that is one price; if it flies back east empty and returns for you later that is another, and over nearly three hours each way the difference is not a rounding item. Give us both dates in the first message even when the second one is provisional, and we will price the shapes side by side instead of guessing which you meant.
GET A FIRM PRICETwo calendars overlap on this corridor and they do not agree. Bahrain’s own busy season is the Gulf winter, when the weather at the departure end is comfortable and the regional working diary is at its heaviest. The Mediterranean season is the opposite half of the year. Between them they leave this heading with no month that is reliably quiet and two shoulders that are reliably good value.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| November to March | The Gulf season proper at the departure end: comfortable weather at Bahrain, a full working calendar and the regional finance diary at its busiest. Trips out of the Kingdom in these weeks tend to be short, firmly dated and often returning within the same week | Two to three weeks, and settle the return at the same time. In this window the aeroplane that suits you is frequently promised to somebody else the following day |
| June to September | The Mediterranean peak at the arrival end. Island parking and handling become the constraint rather than the aircraft itself, and the regional flow out of the Gulf towards Europe runs hard through these weeks | Ask early, and ask about somewhere for the aeroplane to stand in Cyprus as well as about the aeroplane. That is the part that runs out first |
| October to April at the Cyprus end | Cyprus keeps working while much of Europe winds down, so arrival-side availability is comfortable for most of the period | The stretch where short notice genuinely works, and where it is worth asking what is flying empty |
| Easter and Christmas | Short, sharp peaks either side of the holiday itself | Pin the dates down early; the days nearest the holiday go first |
| Ramadan and the two Eid periods | The working calendar at the Bahrain end changes for these weeks, and the travel pattern changes with it, in ways that differ from year to year | Ask us when you have the dates rather than assuming. We check what is actually happening at the departure end in your week. These dates move against the Gregorian calendar each year, which is why this page prints none |
For a good share of the parties flying west out of the Gulf, Cyprus is a hinge rather than a destination – the place where the Gulf week turns into a European one. A second sector settled in the same conversation as the first is almost always cheaper than the same sector bought on its own a fortnight later.
The longest of the three and the one asked for most often by parties whose business does not stop at the Mediterranean. Worth naming in the first message rather than the second, because it changes what aeroplane we look for.
Larnaca to London ›The usual continuation when the reason for the trip is financial rather than industrial. Added to an arrival from the Gulf it prices quite differently from the same leg bought separately.
Larnaca to Geneva ›The other Swiss answer, and the one to ask about when the meeting is east of the lake. Same logic: one booking, two sectors, one aeroplane that already knows where it is going.
Larnaca to Zurich ›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.