3,307 km and around 4 h 35 aloft, flown without a stop in a super-midsize cabin – a Challenger 350, a Legacy 500, a Gulfstream G280. Four and a half hours with every seat taken sits near the top of what that class does comfortably, so on this one a heavy jet goes in front of you alongside and you see the difference rather than having it decided for you. Our floor reads €29 700 one way, working shown. Thirty minutes to something written; +357 95 119759 answers at any hour.
The whole length of the Mediterranean in a single leg, from the middle of Spain to the far eastern end of the sea, with no connection to make and no terminal building. Give us the party and the dates and we will tell you what is genuinely in the region on them.
REQUEST A QUOTEThis is the longest thing we publish out of Iberia towards Cyprus, and it is where the choice of cabin stops being a matter of taste. Four and a half hours with nine people and a loaded hold is not the same proposition as four and a half hours with four people and hand baggage, and the honest way to sell it is to quote both classes rather than pick one. The other variable, as on everything we fly into Cyprus, is where the aeroplane goes afterwards.
Distances and codes: OurAirports open dataset. Handling and slot conditions shift season by season, and we confirm them against your real dates rather than against a rule of thumb. The airport roles described here follow our own published Larnaca to Madrid page.
Alternatives exist at either end, and on the Spanish side one of them amounts to a different journey rather than a different airport. Say at the enquiry where the party is genuinely gathering, because over a leg this long the wrong departure field is an hour of road nobody costed.
| Field | Codes | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid Barajas | MAD / LEMD | departure | Executive handling alongside the main airport, straightforward at any hour, and the field a working trip actually uses. Every distance and duration here is measured from it. Departing on 4 h 35 means a substantial fuel load, which is one more reason the principal field rather than a smaller one is the sensible starting point. |
| Madrid Cuatro Vientos | LECU | situational | A smaller general-aviation field nearer the south-west of the city. Whether it works at all depends on aircraft type and handling, so it is confirmed against your particular aeroplane rather than offered blind. |
| Barcelona El Prat | BCN / LEBL | alternative departure | The answer where the journey is really about Catalonia rather than Madrid. It is roughly an hour less aloft to Cyprus, which over a leg this long is a genuine saving rather than a rounding item – raise it before the aeroplane is chosen, not afterwards. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | arrival | The principal Cyprus field, handling business aviation at any hour, with our own desk on it. Landing at the end of four and a half hours, handling that keeps no office hours is worth more than it sounds. |
| Paphos | PFO / LCPH | alternative arrival | The western field, nearer Limassol and the west coast. Larnaca and Paphos lie 45 minutes apart by road and are not interchangeable for everybody; we quote whichever serves where you are going. |
Four and a half hours with every seat filled and real luggage puts this at the top of the super-midsize band rather than in the middle of it. All three below fly it without a stop and with range left over for weather and holding. What we will not do is pick the class for you when the party is large.
The customary answer on legs between Europe and Cyprus: a super-midsize cabin you can stand up in, carrying range enough to cross the Mediterranean without a stop and with the hold loaded.
Challenger 350 ›Comparable reach behind a quiet cabin, which over four and a half hours is worth considerably more than it is over one. Frequently the aeroplane genuinely free when the Challenger is not.
Legacy 500 ›Quick and long-legged for the class, and the one to ask after when both ends of a long day are unforgiving rather than just one.
Gulfstream G280 ›All three appear in our fleet. With nine people and a loaded hold, ask to see a heavy jet quotation beside the super-midsize one: over this distance the difference is real and we would rather put both in front of you than settle it quietly.
€29 700 one way for the aeroplane entire. A floor of ours, rounded down – neither tariff nor offer. Your date, what is genuinely free on it and the airport charges all move it.
No price for this pairing has reached us from a source we would reproduce, so instead of inventing one we show the working. Four hours and thirty-five minutes – 4.58 hours – are billed at 6,500 EUR an hour, which is the published entry rate for the cabin class, and the result is rounded down. The two-hour minimum attaching to this class makes no difference at this length; the flight time itself is doing the work. A figure conjured to fill a column would be worse than an empty one; a sum with its workings on view is something you can check.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this route | Madrid to Larnaca | from €29 700 | A floor of ours, not an offer: 4.58 h billed (a two-hour minimum applies to the class) × 6 500 EUR/h, the published entry rate for that class (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), rounded down |
| Hourly, midsize cabins | Europe | 4,600 – 9,700 EUR per hour | Published by a broker, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Hourly, entry level | Europe | from 2,900 – 3,500 EUR per hour | Published by a broker, 19.02.2026 |
| Hourly, dollar-quoted | Light to midsize | 3,750 – 4,600 USD per hour | Published by a broker, August 2026 |
| Empty leg | day-dependent | 50 – 75% off is what brokers advertise | Broker price pages, retrieved 2026 |
Everything in that table bar our own floor belongs to somebody else and is reproduced so that any offer, ours included, has a yardstick beside it. Over a leg of this length where the aeroplane happens to be on your date moves the figure further than anything printable could, and eastward into Cyprus is the direction in which ours are more often going home than setting out. The second question is the return: whether it waits for you on the island or flies back to Europe and comes again. At four and a half hours in each heading that is no detail, and the two versions repay being seen side by side before you decide.
GET A FIRM PRICETwo seasons pulling against one another: the European summer sends people out, the Cypriot winter draws them in. Over a leg this long the practical upshot is that a quiet month at one end is rarely a quiet month at the other.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| June to September | A crest in both headings. European handling and island parking are what run short, rather than aeroplanes. | Book early and ask about parking in Cyprus, not only about the aeroplane. Where the jet stays, the stand is arranged rather than assumed. |
| October to April | Cyprus keeps flying while much of Europe slows. Availability is good and the corridor does not empty out. | The best months for short notice, and the best months for asking what is already repositioning east. |
| Easter and Christmas | Short, sharp crests either side of the holidays, in both headings at once. | Settle dates early. The days immediately around the holiday go first and notice afterwards does not recover them. |
| May and late September | The bracketing weeks. Everything open, the weather settled, the numbers gentler than at the crest. | The value weeks here. Any give in the diary should be spent on one of them. |
Very few parties cross the length of the Mediterranean and then stop. Cyprus is where our own desk sits, and a further leg settled in the same conversation almost always costs less than one bought a week later.
Onward east rather than doubling back – the continuation requested most often when Iberia opened a longer journey and the Gulf is the point of it.
Larnaca to Dubai ›South-east into the Kingdom, and the leg most often added when Cyprus is a working stop in the middle of the itinerary.
Larnaca to Riyadh ›The shortest hop off the island, and among the busiest things our operations desk arranges. Worth raising in the same message rather than after you land.
Larnaca to Beirut ›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.