Corfu to Athens is 396 km and about 55 minutes in the air on a light jet – a domestic Greek sector, so there is no border and no paperwork beyond the ordinary. Indicative price from €5 800 for the whole aircraft, one way. Leaving is the easier half of this pairing: Athens accepts you at any hour of the night, which means the hour is settled by what Corfu can release rather than by what Athens can accept. A written quotation follows inside 30 minutes, and +357 95 119759 answers at any hour.
Off the Ionian and onto the mainland before lunch. Most parties fly this leg because the rest of the journey starts in Athens, and the sensible thing is to buy both halves in one conversation rather than two. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs, arranged around the clock.
REQUEST A QUOTEFifty-five minutes south-east down the Adriatic edge and across to Attica. Three hundred and ninety-six kilometres asks nothing of an aeroplane, and nothing on this pairing is decided in the air. It is decided on the apron at Corfu on the morning you go. The Ionian field is a single runway laid along the lagoon; it takes business jets as a matter of routine and – unlike the Cyclades – will generally park one overnight, which is the single most useful thing to know about it. What it will not do in July and August is hand you any hour you please, because scheduled traffic sets the rhythm of its day. Athens, at the far end, is open to business aviation twenty-four hours a day, and that asymmetry is what gives this direction its flexibility.
One arrival and no argument about it. The choice, such as it is, belongs to the departure end, and it is made by where on the Ionian coast your last night is rather than by anything aeronautical.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corfu | CFU / LGKR | departure | An Ionian field with a single runway running along the lagoon and an approach with a reputation. That reputation belongs to arrivals rather than departures, and it is not what shapes your morning. What shapes it is scheduled traffic: from June to September the airport is working at volume, and a private departure is fitted around that rather than ahead of it. Against this, Corfu will generally park a business jet, which the Cyclades fields will not – so the aircraft that flew you in can often be the one that flies you out. |
| Athens | ATH / LGAV | arrival | Eleftherios Venizelos, full business-aviation handling around the clock. Nothing about the arrival end limits this flight, which matters more than it sounds: if the only slot Corfu can give you is a late one, there is nowhere at the other end that closes before you get there. |
| Preveza Aktion | PVK / LGPZ | mainland alternative departure | Across the water on the Ionian coast. The right field when you have been on the mainland side rather than the island, and the one we look at when Corfu handling is full on your date. |
| Kefalonia | EFL / LGKF | southern Ionian | For the islands further down the chain. Subject to aircraft type and handling, so it is worth raising at the enquiry rather than assuming it will work. |
Slot and ground-time conditions at the island fields are published operating rules and change from season to season. We confirm them against your dates rather than against a general rule.
Under an hour, so range is not a conversation. Luggage is. A fortnight in the Ionian produces more of it than the fortnight that arrived, and it is the hold rather than the seats that catches people out on the way home.
Up to seven seats and the type most often placed on short Mediterranean sectors. The usual first answer here, and the most forgiving of the three when the bags have multiplied.
Phenom 300 ›Four to six with luggage, easier to place at short notice in the season and cheaper to run over four hundred kilometres. Frequently what is genuinely free on an August morning.
Citation CJ2 ›The older light jet on the same sectors. Less cabin, lower cost, and the one to ask about whenever your departure hour is not fixed.
Citation Bravo ›From €5 800 one way for the whole aircraft. That is a floor we calculated rather than a quotation, and the arithmetic belongs on the page rather than behind it.
No published price for this city pair has reached us from a source we would be willing to reprint, in either direction. So here is the sum: two hours charged, because a two-hour minimum applies to a sector shorter than that, at the published starting rate of €2 900 an hour for the light-jet cabin (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), rounded down. It is the same figure we publish on the mainland-to-island page, and deliberately so — the cabin class is the same, the minimum is the same, and fifty-five minutes is fifty-five minutes whichever end you start from.
For auditing any quotation you hold, ours included, the hourly figures other brokers publish for light jets in Europe run from €4 600 to €7 300 (undated, retrieved 2026), with a starting figure of €2 900 an hour quoted in February 2026 and a dollar-denominated band of $3 750 to $4 200 an hour from August 2026. Empty legs are published at discounts of 50 to 75 per cent. Those are other people’s numbers, printed so you have a ruler; none of them is our offer.
What actually moves your figure on this direction is where the aeroplane sleeps the night before. Corfu, unlike the Cyclades fields, will normally let it stay, so if it brought you here it can take you away without two repositioning sectors appearing on the bill. If it has to be flown in to collect you, that changes the number more than the fifty-five minutes ever will. Ask any quotation you are comparing which of the two it is describing; ours will say.
GET A FIRM PRICEThird-party published rates are quoted for comparison only. They are not our prices and they are not a quotation. The only price we stand behind is the written one against your dates.
June to September is the peak, and on the outbound morning the binding item is a departure slot rather than an aeroplane.
Saturdays in August are the hardest days of the year on this pairing, because that is the changeover day for the whole island and everyone wants the same three hours of the morning. If your plan has any give in it at all, move to a weekday and the same trip becomes unremarkable. May and October are the value weeks: good availability, everything still open, and quotations that settle closer to the floor above.
From November to April the corridor thins out and handling and services at the island end run reduced, so confirm with us what is genuinely open before planning around it. In that season a week of notice is ample. In August, ask about the departure slot and about whether the aircraft can stay on the island overnight before you settle on a type – those two answers matter more than the cabin does.
Hardly anybody stops in Athens. These are the three continuations we are most often asked to quote alongside this one, and booked together they are planned once rather than twice.
The usual way home at the end of a Greek summer, published in its own right with its own airport and aircraft notes.
Athens to London ›When the Ionian was the first half of the holiday and the Cyclades are the second. A very different set of airport rules waits at the other end.
Athens to Mykonos ›The long leg east, and the usual shape when the islands were a stop on the way somewhere considerably further.
Athens to Dubai ›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.