Olbia to Larnaca covers 2,211 km in something like 3 h 12, one leg east on a super-midsize cabin with range left in hand. Travelling this way the work sits in the departure: the island field runs on mandatory slots from May through September and has almost no room to park anything in July and August, so the jet carrying you home has often flown in that same morning to do it. Indicative from €27 800 for the whole aeroplane, one way. A written quotation follows within 30 minutes; +357 95 119759 is answered at any hour.
Sardinia to Cyprus with nothing in between: 1,194 nautical miles of open water and a landing at the airfield our own operations desk stands on. Two passport checks, each of them a few paces from the aircraft steps, and otherwise nothing between the apron at Olbia and whatever you are driving to on the island. Whole aircraft, single seats and repositioning flights, arranged around the clock.
REQUEST A QUOTEThree and a quarter hours east across the Mediterranean, entirely routine for the cabin class, with the whole of the difficulty concentrated into the forty minutes before the doors close. Olbia Costa Smeralda is a compact island airport carrying one of the densest summers anywhere in the region: from May to September a slot there is mandatory, and through July and August the parking simply runs out, which is why aeroplanes on that coast turn round rather than linger. Larnaca at the far end is the island's principal business-aviation field, handled at any hour of the day or night, and it is where we work.
Alternatives exist at both ends, and they are alternatives of quite different kinds. In Sardinia the second airport is a fallback for a week when Olbia has no room. In Cyprus the second airport is a decision about roads, and it is one some parties genuinely ought to make.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olbia Costa Smeralda | OLB / LIEO | departure | Four kilometres outside the town, and the airport for the entire north-east coast. A slot is mandatory from May to September and there is little parking to be had in July or August, so aeroplanes come and go rather than wait. For a departure that turns the hour into a handling question rather than an availability one – give us the time you want to be off the ground and not merely the day. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | arrival | The principal Cyprus airport, handled at any hour, and the one most of our own flying works from. In practice it is the arrival for Nicosia, for the eastern half of Limassol and for Ayia Napa and Protaras. Landing here late at night is a matter of scheduling rather than a problem to be solved. |
| Paphos | PFO / LCPH | arrival alternative | The western airport, nearer Limassol and the west coast. Worth asking for when your address sits at that end of the island: landing at Larnaca and then driving across hands back a share of what the flight bought you. Raise it with the dates, not afterwards – fewer aircraft are free there on the day. |
| Cagliari | CAG / LIEE | southern Sardinia | Serves the south of the island, and stands in when Olbia's apron has gone. It is a long way from the Costa Smeralda by road, so we put it forward only when the alternative on your date is not flying. |
| Figari, Corsica | FSC / LFKF | northern neighbour | Across the strait, and now and then the better answer for the top of the area – particularly where a boat is involved and the crossing can be made by sea rather than by road. |
Coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026, measured great-circle from Olbia. Slot and handling conditions shift from one season to the next, so we check them against the dates you actually hold rather than against a rule of thumb.
Short, but not nothing, and it catches parties out more often coming this way than going the other.
Cyprus belongs to the European Union and stands outside the Schengen area; Italy stands inside both. What follows is a flight that never leaves the Union and still meets a passport officer twice, once at either end, whichever direction you fly it. At a business-aviation terminal that officer is a few paces from the aircraft steps and the whole business takes minutes – provided the passenger list with passport details reached us alongside the booking rather than out on the apron.
Send the details when you enquire and neither end delays you. Send them late in August, with the Olbia handling window already tight, and the paperwork becomes the reason your slot moves.
Three hours and a bit with a full cabin and the luggage a coastal fortnight generates is super-midsize work. Drop below the class and you trade cabin for a saving the sector length quietly takes back, because on a crossing of this length the last hour is the one you notice.
What we put forward first on Europe-to-Cyprus work: a super-midsize cabin with stand-up height, and enough range to cross without a stop and without a fuel calculation attached to the hold.
See the Challenger 350 ›Comparable reach inside a notably quiet cabin, and frequently the aeroplane genuinely free on your date when the Challenger is committed elsewhere. We would sooner offer it than ask you to move the day.
See the Legacy 500 ›Fast and long-legged for the class, and the one to name when the departure window at Olbia is narrow and somebody is waiting at the Cyprus end.
See the Gulfstream G280 ›From €27 800 one way for the whole aeroplane. That is a floor of our own making rather than an offer, and it is arithmetic rather than a quotation: 3.20 charged hours – the two-hour minimum comfortably passed – at €8 700 an hour, that being the bottom of the published band for the cabin class, then rounded down.
Nobody we would be prepared to reprint has published a price for this city pair, so what stands below instead are rates other companies publish by the hour. Use them to audit a quotation you already hold; do not use them to assemble one. Over a sector of this length, where the aeroplane happens to be on your date shifts the number further than any rate card can.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this route | Olbia to Larnaca | from €27 800 | A floor of ours, not an offer: 3.20 charged hours at 8 700 EUR/h, the bottom of the published band for the class, 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 where the aeroplane starts, and note that flying east the question has a particular shape. Our base is in Cyprus, which going the other way frequently means the machine is already standing where you are. Coming home it means the machine has to reach Sardinia first – and equally, that a Cyprus aeroplane which took a party out to that coast is sitting there wanting to come back. Which is exactly why the eastbound leg is the one likeliest to exist as a repositioning flight, and why it is worth asking what is going our way before the dates are fixed.
Each hourly figure above belongs to a third party and describes a class of aeroplane, not this sector; they are printed so that you can check a quotation, ours as readily as anybody else's. They are not our prices and they oblige nobody. What we stand behind is a written figure against your dates. Call +357 95 119759, 24/7.
GET A FIRM PRICETwo seasons pull against one another here. Europe's summer fills Sardinia; the Cypriot winter fills the other end of the sector. The result is a route with no genuinely dead month but with very different bottlenecks depending which one you choose.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| June to September | Loaded in both directions, and what binds is European handling and island parking rather than the supply of aeroplanes | Book well ahead, and ask about the Olbia departure slot rather than only about the aircraft |
| October to April | Cyprus carries on flying while a good deal of Europe slows down, and availability loosens accordingly | The months for short notice, and the months in which to ask what is repositioning |
| Easter and Christmas | Brief, sharp peaks on either side of the holiday itself | Settle the dates early; the days nearest the holiday disappear first |
| May and late September | Shoulder at both ends: everything open, pricing softer | The value weeks on this pairing, and the ones to bend your dates into if they bend at all |
Inside the peak, settle the hour on the ground at Olbia before anything else. Slots there are mandatory from May to September, and in July and August the apron is spoken for long before your preferred morning comes round. Name the hour you want to leave and we will say whether it genuinely exists before the rest is agreed.
For a good deal of this traffic Cyprus is a base rather than an end point, and a second sector arranged alongside the first comes cheaper than the same sector bought on its own a week later.
The long leg east, and the usual continuation when the island was a stop on a longer itinerary rather than the destination itself. Published as a sector in its own right.
Larnaca to Dubai ›The short hop across the eastern Mediterranean, and one of the sectors we fly most often off our own airfield. A working morning rather than a working day.
Larnaca to Tel Aviv ›North-west out of Cyprus, and the leg asked for most when the island turned out to be the middle of the trip rather than the end of it.
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.