Rhodes to Larnaca is 529 km and about 1 h 05 in the air, flown without a stop by a super-midsize cabin – a Challenger 350, a Legacy 500 or a Gulfstream G280. Cyprus is where our aeroplanes sleep, which makes this the leg on which one of them frequently has its own reason to be flying east. Written quotation inside 30 minutes; the desk on +357 95 119759 is awake whatever the hour.
Sixty-five minutes of open water between the Dodecanese and Cyprus, with no connection, no terminal and nobody asking you to be there two hours early. Give us the party and the dates; we will tell you what is genuinely available in the region that week, and whether something is already pointed your way.
REQUEST A QUOTEFor the class of aeroplane that flies it, 529 km barely counts as work, so neither range nor weather is what you should be asking about. Ask instead which way the machine was already facing. Diagoras, unlike the Cycladic fields, normally lets a private jet stand on the ground, so one that carried a party out in the morning can still be sitting there in the afternoon – and if its next booking is on Cyprus, your sector is one somebody has already committed to fly.
An obvious field at each end, plus one on the Cyprus side that is not a fallback at all but a different answer to a different question. Three quarters of an hour of Cypriot motorway separates Larnaca from Paphos, and for some parties that is the whole evening.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhodes Diagoras | RHO / LGRP | Departure | The Dodecanese airport, and one of the reasons this route reads as calm. It will generally park a private aeroplane instead of moving it on, so a departure from here is scheduled rather than wrestled for, and the jet flying you out may well have spent the night on the island rather than crossing the sea empty to collect you. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | Arrival | Cyprus’s main field and the one our own operation is built around. Handling for business aviation runs at any hour, and our desk here is staffed round the clock, so touching down at two in the morning is met by people rather than by a rota. |
| Paphos | PFO / LCPH | Alternative arrival | The western airport, and the sensible one for Limassol and the west coast. Landing at Larnaca and then driving 45 minutes is a worse end to a day than simply landing nearer. Send us the address, not the country, and we will pick. |
| Kos | KGS / LGKO | Alternative departure | The next island along and a brief hop in its own right. If your week finishes on Kos we price it from Kos, rather than putting you on a boat to Rhodes first. |
| Heraklion | HER / LGIR | Alternative departure | Crete, and another field that will usually let an aeroplane stand. It is the other common Greek starting point for the run back to Cyprus and the economics behind it are identical. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026; distances computed great-circle. What handling and slots allow moves with the season, so we check them against your dates rather than quoting a rule.
An hour and five minutes carrying a full party and a fortnight’s luggage is super-midsize territory. Drop below it and the money you save tends to reappear on the leg home – and over a sector this brief there was never much of it anyway, because almost nothing you are paying for happens in the air.
What we reach for first between Cyprus and Europe: a wide cabin, standing height, and enough range to do the job nonstop with the hold loaded. Coming home off a long stay, the hold is usually the deciding factor.
Challenger 350 ›Similar reach, notably quiet inside, and regularly the aeroplane that is free when the Challenger is not. Say at the enquiry that you will take either and we stop waiting on one type while another stands idle.
Legacy 500 ›Quick, and long-legged for the class. The one to name when both ends of the day are fixed – a late checkout on the island and something in Cyprus that will not move.
Gulfstream G280 ›We publish no «from» figure for Rhodes to Larnaca, because we have not found one for this direction that we would be willing to reprint. What follows instead is the hourly ground the whole market stands on, and an explanation of the two questions that decide your actual number. Send dates and a written quotation follows within half an hour.
A word on why there is a gap here rather than a price. A published third-party figure does exist for the opposite direction, Larnaca to Rhodes, and we reprint it on that page with its source attached. It is somebody else’s number, found for that direction, and turning it round to face the other way would be putting an assertion in a stranger’s mouth that they never made. Where a floor of ours can be built honestly – a billed minimum multiplied by a published rate for the cabin class – we build one and show the sum, because that arithmetic does not care which way the aeroplane points. On this pairing the only figure available is of the other kind, so we leave the line blank rather than fill it with something borrowed.
Ask any broker holding a quotation for you the same opening question: where does the aeroplane begin its day? Something already working the eastern Mediterranean carries a very different bill from something ferried in empty to fetch you – and eastbound into Cyprus is precisely the direction in which our fleet is heading home rather than setting out. Then ask the second question, about what happens afterwards. An aircraft that waits for you costs one thing; an aircraft that flies back and returns for you costs another; and on a sector where the flying is barely an hour, that gap is most of the price rather than a detail at the bottom of it.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this direction | Rhodes to Larnaca | not published | We have found no figure for this direction from a source we would reprint, and we do not borrow the one published for the opposite direction |
| 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 |
Every line in that table was published by somebody else. We reprint them so you have a yardstick to hold against any offer, ours included; none of them is an offer of ours, and none of them binds anyone. What binds us is a written figure against your dates and nothing else.
GET A FIRM PRICETwo calendars run against each other here: Europe fills up in summer, Cyprus fills up in winter. Treat the table below as a diary rather than as a weather forecast.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| June to September | Busy whichever way you are pointed; the pinch points are European handling and somewhere for the aeroplane to stand | Ask early, and ask about parking as well as about the aircraft |
| October to April | Much of Europe slows; Cyprus does not. Supply is comfortable | The stretch of the year when short notice works and when it is worth asking what is flying empty |
| Easter and Christmas | Brief, hard peaks on either side of the holiday itself | Pin the dates down early – the days nearest the holiday disappear first |
| May and late September | Shoulder weeks. Everything open, prices gentler | Where the value sits on this pairing |
One thing deserves saying plainly about this direction in particular: ask what is already coming back. On the Cyprus-bound half of the pairing, the flight you want is the one most likely to exist as an empty leg already, and we volunteer that rather than wait to be asked a second time.
For plenty of people Cyprus is a junction rather than a finish line. A second sector arranged in the same conversation as the first is nearly always cheaper than the same sector bought on its own a week later.
The long run north-west, and the sector we are asked to price alongside this one more than any other – usually because the island was a stop on the way home rather than the destination.
Larnaca to London ›Onward east, and the shape a trip takes when the Greek week was the agreeable interval in a working month rather than the whole of it.
Larnaca to Dubai ›A brief regional crossing, and one that is entirely ordinary to fly on the same day you land from Rhodes provided the two legs sit on a single booking.
Larnaca to Tel Aviv ›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.