Heraklion to Larnaca is 770 km and about 1 h 23 in the air, flown nonstop on a super-midsize cabin – a Challenger 350, Legacy 500 or Gulfstream G280. Indicative price from €7 000 for the whole aircraft, one way. We are based in Cyprus, which on this direction means the aircraft is usually going home rather than away, and that is the single fact most likely to change your price. Written quotation inside 30 minutes; +357 95 119759 at any hour.
Crete to Cyprus in under an hour and a half, nonstop, with no connection and no terminal at either end. Tell us the party and the dates and we will say what is genuinely in the eastern Mediterranean on them.
REQUEST A QUOTEThe long way east across open water, and a sector that is entirely routine for the class of aircraft that flies it. Seven hundred and seventy kilometres is comfortably nonstop on a super-midsize cabin with range margin left over for weather and holding; a light jet would need a technical stop, and we would say so rather than dress the stop up as a feature. The honest variable on this page is not the flying and not the weather. It is where the aeroplane happens to be standing on your date – and on this particular direction that question tends to answer itself in your favour.
Alternatives at both ends, and at the Cretan end the alternative is sometimes the better airport rather than the second choice.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heraklion | HER / LGIR | departure | Crete’s main field, shared with military use and busy with scheduled traffic for the whole summer. It takes larger aircraft than the Cyclades fields and will usually park one, which is the reason a Crete departure is a calmer proposition than a Mykonos or Santorini one at the same time of year. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | arrival | The main Cyprus field, with business-aviation handling at any hour, and the one most of our own flights use. If Cyprus is the end of the trip rather than a stop, this is almost always the right answer. |
| Paphos | PFO / LCPH | alternative arrival | The western Cyprus field, closer to Limassol and the west coast. Larnaca and Paphos are about forty-five minutes apart by road and they are not interchangeable for everyone – we will quote whichever suits where you are actually going. |
| Chania | CHQ / LGSA | alternative departure | The better field for the west of Crete. The road to Heraklion is about two and a half hours, so if your last night is in the west, leave from Chania rather than crossing the island to reach an aircraft. |
| Rhodes | RHO / LGRP | a stop on the way | A short hop along the line of this route, and another field that will usually park an aircraft. Worth naming if Crete and Cyprus are two ends of a longer summer rather than a single hop. |
Handling and slot conditions change from season to season. We confirm them against your actual dates rather than against a general rule.
An hour and twenty minutes with a full cabin and real luggage puts this in the super-midsize class, and the reason is load rather than distance alone. Go below it and you are trading cabin for a saving that the positioning on the return tends to take back.
The usual answer on sectors between Europe and Cyprus: super-midsize cabin, stand-up height, and the range to fly this nonstop with the hold full.
Challenger 350 ›Comparable reach in a quiet cabin, and frequently the aircraft that is actually free when the Challenger is not. Worth asking for by name.
Legacy 500 ›Fast and long-legged for its class, with range in hand after the arrival. The one to ask about when the schedule is tight at both ends or Cyprus is not the last stop.
Gulfstream G280 ›From €7 000 one way for the whole aircraft. Our own floor, not a quotation, and here is exactly how it is built.
Nobody has published a price for this city pair from a source we would be willing to reprint, so instead of borrowing one we show the arithmetic: two hours charged, because a two-hour minimum applies, at the published starting rate of €3 500 an hour for the cabin class (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), rounded down. It is the same floor that appears on the Cyprus-to-Crete page, because the cabin, the minimum and the flight time do not change with the direction – but on this direction a real quotation has a better chance of landing under it, for the reason in the next paragraph.
Our aircraft are based in Cyprus. Flying into Larnaca is therefore frequently the leg on which an aeroplane is going home anyway, and the leg most likely to exist as an empty one. That is the item to ask about on this route, far more than the hourly rate. Brokers publish discounts of 50 to 75 percent on empty legs, and if your day can move by a few hours we will watch the corridor for you.
For measuring any quotation you hold: published hourly ranges for midsize jets in Europe run €4 600 to €9 700, with starting figures of €2 900 to €3 500 quoted in February 2026 and a dollar-quoted band of $3 750 to $4 600 an hour for light to midsize cabins in August 2026. None of that is our offer; it is there so you have something to check us against.
GET A FIRM PRICEThe figures above are third-party published rates, quoted so you can sanity-check a quotation – ours included. 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 pulling against each other: the Greek summer at the departure end, and a Cyprus that keeps flying through the winter at the arrival end.
From June to September both ends are at their peak, and the constraints are handling and island parking rather than whether an aircraft exists. Book early, and ask about the ground arrangements at the same time as the aeroplane rather than afterwards. May and the end of September are the value weeks – everything open, softer pricing, short notice still realistic.
From October to April Cyprus carries on while much of Europe slows down, availability is good, and these are the best months both for booking late and for asking about an empty leg on this direction. The exceptions are Easter and Christmas, which are short sharp peaks: the days either side of the holiday go first, so fix those dates early or accept what is left.
Cyprus is an end for some parties and a hinge for others. These are the three continuations we are most often asked to quote in the same conversation.
The long leg east, and the usual shape when Cyprus is a stop on a wider itinerary rather than the destination.
Larnaca to Dubai ›A very short eastern Mediterranean sector, and one of the sectors most often added to a Cyprus trip at the last minute.
Larnaca to Tel Aviv ›The common way home from Cyprus, published in its own right with its own aircraft and airport notes.
Larnaca to London ›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.