Budapest to Larnaca covers 1,836 km in roughly 2 h 44 aloft, flown without a stop by a super-midsize aeroplane – Challenger 350, Legacy 500, Gulfstream G280. Cyprus is where we are based, which matters on this heading for an unglamorous reason: whatever carried a party out to Hungary has to come back, and it may as well come back carrying you. Our own floor is €12 300, one way, whole aeroplane. Written quotation inside half an hour; +357 95 119759 is answered whatever the hour.
991 nautical miles from central Europe to the eastern Mediterranean, unbroken, with no terminal and no connection at either end. Tell us the party and the dates and we will tell you what is genuinely in the region on them – including anything already pointed our way.
REQUEST A QUOTEUnder three hours from the Danube to the Cyprus coast, and flown towards our own apron rather than away from it. Treat that as arithmetic instead of marketing: aeroplanes delivered into central Europe from the island have to be recovered, and this heading is where that recovery happens. Anyone whose dates have a little play in them should ask what is already moving before asking what a fixed day costs.
Hungary offers one field and no debate. Cyprus offers two, and they are not the same thing for everyone – where you are sleeping that night decides it, not the aeroplane.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest Ferenc Liszt | BUD / LHBP | Departure | A single airport for the whole city, so there is nothing to select and nothing to get wrong. It has its own business-aviation terminal and turns aircraft round faster than most of its neighbours, which on a departure is the difference between being away on time and sitting about. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | Arrival | Cyprus’s main field, staffed for business aviation at any hour, and the one our own aeroplanes work from. It is the right end of the island for Larnaca itself, for Nicosia, and for Ayia Napa and Protaras. |
| Paphos | PFO / LCPH | Alternative arrival | The western field, and the nearer one for Limassol and the west coast. Three quarters of an hour separates the two by road, which reads as nothing on a page and is not nothing at the end of a long day. Give us the address rather than the airport code. |
| Vienna | VIE / LOWW | Alternative departure | Two and a half hours from Budapest on the road, and where we go when the Budapest hours will not fit the day. Raise it at enquiry stage rather than after a quotation has been built. |
| Debrecen | DEB / LHDC | Situational departure | Useful for the east of Hungary, subject to handling and to the hours the field genuinely keeps. We check that against your date rather than against a published timetable. |
Handling and slot conditions change from season to season. We confirm them against your actual dates rather than against a general rule.
Nearly three hours with the cabin full and real luggage aboard is super-midsize work. Step down a class and the cabin is what you give up, for a saving the sector generally takes back – and on a flight home, with a week’s belongings loaded, the hold empties of space before the seats do.
The standard reply on Europe-to-Cyprus work: a super-midsize cabin you can stand up in, and legs enough to do the distance in one go with the baggage compartment packed.
Challenger 350 ›Similar reach, notably quiet inside, and regularly the aeroplane that is genuinely free on the day the Challenger is not.
Legacy 500 ›Quick, and long-legged for its class. This is the one to name when something other than you is fixing the hour you leave Hungary.
Gulfstream G280 ›All three types are on our own fleet pages. Heavier cabins can be arranged on this sector too.
From €12 300 one way. Our own indicative floor for this city pair, rounded down. The date, the aircraft actually available and airport fees move it — tell us your dates and we confirm within 30 minutes.
Nobody has published a route price for this pair that we would put our name to, so the number above is a floor of our own making and the workings are here: 2.73 chargeable hours – the two-hour minimum is irrelevant at this length – taken at €4 500 per hour, which is the published entry rate for the cabin class (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), then rounded down. Over a sector this long, where the aeroplane happens to be on your date shifts the total further than any published rate can.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this route | Budapest to Larnaca | from €12 300 | A floor we calculated, not a quotation: 2.73 chargeable hours at the published entry rate of 4,500 EUR/h for this cabin class (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), 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 |
Ask any quotation of this length one thing before anything else: where does the aeroplane start? Flying towards Cyprus the answer falls your way unusually often, because something that took a party off the island has to return and would sooner do it with people aboard. Put that question to us as readily as to anyone else. The second thing to settle is the return: an aeroplane that waits in Hungary is priced one way, an aeroplane that goes home and comes back for you another, and across nearly three hours of flying that gap is not small change.
The figures above other than our own floor are third-party published rates, quoted so you can sanity-check a quotation. They are not our prices and they are not a quotation. The only price we stand behind is the written one against your dates.
Two seasons sit on this corridor facing opposite ways: Europe’s summer one way, Cyprus’s winter sunshine the other. Travelling towards the island, it is the second that governs you.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| June to September | Both headings peak together. What limits you is handling in Europe and parking on the island rather than the supply of aeroplanes | Book well ahead, and make parking at the Cyprus end part of the conversation rather than only the aircraft |
| October to April | Cyprus keeps working through a season when much of Europe slows. Availability is comfortable | The stretch for short notice, and the stretch in which to ask about an empty leg coming home |
| Easter and Christmas | Brief, sharp spikes on either side of the holiday itself | Pin the dates down early – the days closest to the holiday disappear first |
| May and late September | Shoulder months. Everything is open and pricing eases | The best value weeks anywhere on this route |
For most people who land with us, Cyprus is a junction and not a terminus. A second sector agreed in the same conversation nearly always costs less than one bought afterwards.
The long haul north-west, and the sector booked alongside this one more than any other when the island is a stop rather than the point of the trip.
Larnaca to London ›Onwards east instead of doubling back into Europe – the natural continuation when the Gulf is where the journey is really headed.
Larnaca to Dubai ›Central Europe again, by the other door. Worth knowing if Vienna – two and a half hours from Budapest by road – was the better end of the trip all along.
Larnaca to Vienna ›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.