Cairo to Larnaca is 569 km and about 1 h 08 in the air – a super-midsize cabin crosses it in the time a meeting overruns by. On a sector this short the flying is the least of it: a departure from Egypt by a non-Egyptian operator needs permits and slots that are applied for rather than assumed, and that is the part we start early. Our floor is €5 800 one way for the whole aeroplane, and the sum is printed below. +357 95 119759, answered at any hour.
An hour and eight minutes from the Nile to the eastern Mediterranean. The distinctive thing about this heading is that the paperwork sits at the departure end while the journey sits at the arrival end – so the sooner the dates are firm, the less the trip depends on anybody being quick. Tell us the party and the days and we will say what is genuinely available.
REQUEST A QUOTEOne of the shortest international sectors on this website, and one of the few where what you are buying is mostly not flying time. Three things shape it. The flight is shorter than the billing minimum, so the hourly rate matters less here than on any other route we publish. The Egyptian departure carries permit and slot work that takes working days rather than minutes. And the arrival is a third-country entry into the European Union, because Cyprus belongs to the Union but not to the Schengen area.
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026; distances computed great-circle. We publish no movement count for Cairo: the EBAA dataset cited elsewhere on this site covers European airports only and Cairo does not appear in it. Handling, permit and slot conditions move with the season and with the operator, and we confirm them against your actual dates rather than against a general rule. This page prints no lead time in days, because the honest answer depends on the week.
The real decision at the Egyptian end is which side of a very large city you start from, and it is a decision about roads rather than about flying: the difference between the two Cairo fields is a couple of minutes in the air and can be an hour or more on the ground. At the Cypriot end the decision is which half of the island you are going to.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairo International | CAI / HECA | Departure | The default, and the field every figure on this page is measured from. Egypt’s principal international gateway, on the north-east side of the city, with separate handling for business aviation. It has the deepest handling, the widest fuel and maintenance support and the most predictable permit process of any Egyptian field, which is why we quote from it unless there is a reason not to. Handling and permissions are arranged before the day rather than on arrival at the aircraft. |
| Sphinx International | SPX / HESX | Alternative departure | On the western side of the city, which for Giza, 6th of October City and the western suburbs can remove a very long drive across Cairo. In the air the difference to Larnaca is immaterial; on the road it can be the difference between a civilised morning and a bad one. Handling there is lighter than at Cairo International, so it wants arranging rather than assuming, and it is subject to operating hours – ask early enough that a negative answer can still reshape the plan. |
| 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, which on a short sector that can slip by an hour at the Egyptian end is worth more than it sounds. |
| 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 are not interchangeable for everybody. Give us the address you are going to and we quote the airport that suits it. |
| Sharm el-Sheikh | SSH / HESH | A different trip | The Red Sea rather than the city, and a separate sector with its own distance and its own price. We list it here only so that nobody plans a departure from the coast on the strength of a page measured from Cairo. |
An hour and eight minutes is short enough that almost anything will fly it, which turns the aircraft question into a question about the party and the luggage rather than about range. We quote super-midsize first because that is what is usually moving between Cyprus and this region, not because the sector demands it – and there is a second reason out of Cairo: summer temperatures there are high enough to affect take-off performance, and a larger margin is worth having.
Broad cabin, standing height and range far beyond anything this sector asks. On a flight this short the cabin is the whole of what you are buying, and the hold takes a party’s worth of luggage without an argument.
Challenger 350 ›Comparable reach, a notably quiet cabin, and frequently the aeroplane that is free when the Challenger is not. Name both at the enquiry and you get airborne sooner than by insisting on one of them.
Legacy 500 ›Fast and long in the legs for its class. The type to ask for when Cairo is one stop in a working week rather than the start of a holiday, and the aeroplane has somewhere else to be that evening.
Gulfstream G280 ›A light cabin will fly 569 km perfectly well and will cost less. If the number matters more to you than the cabin, say so in the first message and we will quote both instead of choosing for you.
From €5 800 one way for the whole aeroplane. That is our own floor, rounded down – neither a quotation nor a tariff. Send the dates and we confirm within half an hour.
There is something particular about the price on this route and it is worth saying plainly rather than burying in a table. The flight is about an hour and eight minutes. The cabin class carries a two-hour minimum. So you are charged for two hours and you fly rather less than that, which means the hourly rate has less to do with your invoice here than on any other route we publish. Chasing a cheaper rate per hour on a sector shorter than the minimum is chasing a discount on hours you were never going to be billed for. What is worth chasing instead is where the aeroplane starts and what it does next.
Nobody has published a whole-aircraft route price for these two cities, in either heading, from a source we would be willing to reprint. So rather than conjure a figure we show the sum: two hours charged, at the lowest published entry rate we can find for the cabin class, rounded down. A number invented to fill a blank would be worse than a blank.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this route | Cairo to Larnaca | from €5 800 | Our own floor, not a quotation: 2.00 h charged (a two-hour minimum applies, and this sector is shorter than it) × 2 900 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 is reprinted so that you have a yardstick to hold against any offer, ours included. None of it is our offer. Two further items belong in the number and not in an hourly rate. The first is the Egyptian end: permits, slots and handling out of Cairo are administrative work with a real cost in time, which is why a departure arranged in two days does not price like one arranged in two weeks. That is an ordinary cost of operating out of Egypt rather than a surcharge, and giving us the dates early is the one thing that reliably reduces it. The second is positioning: northbound into Larnaca is the direction in which our aircraft are more often going home than setting out, and an aeroplane already due to make the crossing prices differently from one flown down empty to collect you. Ask that of every quotation on your desk.
GET A FIRM PRICEOn a sector this short the season decides availability far more than it decides flying conditions. The constraint in summer is not the air between Egypt and Cyprus; it is somewhere for the aeroplane to stand once it lands on an island in August.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| June to September | Peak in both headings. Handling and island parking are the limiting factors rather than the aircraft, and heat at the Egyptian end is a performance consideration on the departure | Ask early, and ask about parking in Cyprus as well as about the aeroplane. If the party and the luggage are both full, say so – it affects which cabin we put forward for a summer departure |
| October to April | Cyprus keeps working while much of Europe winds down, so availability at the arrival end is comfortable through the whole stretch | The months where short notice genuinely works and where it is worth asking what is flying empty. The permit work at the Cairo end still takes the days it takes, whatever the season |
| Easter and Christmas | Short, sharp peaks either side of the holiday itself | Pin the dates down early; the days nearest the holiday go first |
| May and late September | Shoulder weeks. Everything open, pricing gentler, and the weather at both ends at its most agreeable | Where the value sits on this heading. One to two weeks is usually enough, provided the Egyptian paperwork is started when the dates are fixed rather than when the aircraft is chosen |
One rule applies in every month of the year on this route: start the permit process as soon as the dates are firm, not when the aircraft has been selected. It is the only part of the trip that cannot be hurried by paying more for it.
Cyprus sits close enough to the rest of the eastern Mediterranean that a great many parties arriving from Egypt are not finished when they land. A second sector settled in the same conversation as the first costs less than the same sector bought separately a fortnight later, and it lets us plan one aeroplane’s week instead of two.
The shortest regional crossing out of Cyprus, and one flown routinely on the same day as an arrival when both legs sit on a single booking.
Larnaca to Beirut ›The other short eastern hop, and the continuation asked for most often by parties whose business runs along this coast rather than across to Europe.
Larnaca to Tel Aviv ›West into Greece, and the usual next move when Cyprus was the working stop and the Aegean is the part of the trip you were actually looking forward to.
Larnaca to Athens ›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.