770 km and something near 1 h 23 aloft, flown without a stop in a super-midsize cabin – a Challenger 350, a Legacy 500, a Gulfstream G280. Eighty-odd minutes off the Red Sea and back into the Mediterranean, on a corridor whose season falls roughly between October and April: the opposite way round from everything else we fly hereabouts, which is exactly why the aeroplanes are free to do it. Our floor reads €7 000 one way, working shown. Thirty minutes to something written; +357 95 119759 answers at any hour.
North over the Sinai and the eastern Mediterranean in under an hour and a half, with no connection to make and no terminal building at either end. Give us the party and the dates and we will tell you what is genuinely in the region on them.
REQUEST A QUOTEA short eastern Mediterranean leg, wholly routine for the class, and a useful counterweight to the rest of what we do. Our Mediterranean routes fill from June; this one fills from October. That inversion is the most practical line on the page, because it means the aircraft going idle through the European winter are precisely the ones flying this corridor – so availability at the time of year you actually want it improves rather than worsens.
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 Sharm el-Sheikh page.
One departure that is rarely in question, two Egyptian alternatives that amount to different journeys, and a pair of fields on the Cypriot side chosen by where you are going rather than by anything aeronautical.
| Field | Codes | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharm el-Sheikh | SSH / HESH | departure | The Red Sea resort field, with business-aviation handling arranged apart from the scheduled operation. Through the winter season it carries a heavy volume of leisure traffic, and that registers as time on the ground rather than as any doubt about getting airborne. Hand us the hour you want wheels up rather than only the morning, and the handling window is pinned before you commit. |
| Hurghada | HRG / HEGN | alternative departure | The other side of the Red Sea and a separate resort area altogether. An alternative in the sense of being a different place, not a different gate – say where you have actually been staying and we will name the field. |
| Cairo | CAI / HECA | alternative departure | The city instead of the coast, roughly an hour further north. It earns its keep when the week finishes with business in Cairo rather than on the water. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | arrival | The principal Cyprus field, business-aviation handling at any hour, and the airport our own desk occupies. Every distance and duration here is measured to it. |
| 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. |
An hour and twenty-three minutes with every seat filled and real luggage puts this in the super-midsize band. Step below it and you trade cabin for a saving the return leg tends to reclaim – and coming off a Red Sea week the hold is generally busier than the seats are.
The customary answer on legs into Cyprus: a super-midsize cabin you can stand up in, with range enough to fly this several times over and the hold loaded.
Challenger 350 ›Comparable reach behind a quiet cabin, and frequently the aeroplane genuinely free when the Challenger is not. Worth naming rather than waiting for.
Legacy 500 ›Quick and long-legged for the class, and the one to ask after when both ends of the day are unforgiving rather than just one.
Gulfstream G280 ›All three appear in our fleet. Over 770 km nothing about the distance is demanding, so the honest question at the enquiry is how many of you there are and what travels in the hold.
€7 000 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; send dates and confirmation follows inside half an hour.
No price for this pairing has reached us from a source we would reproduce, in either heading, so rather than invent a figure we show the working. Two hours are billed – the cabin class carries a two-hour minimum and the leg itself is shorter than that – at 3,500 EUR an hour, the published entry rate for the class, rounded down. Over an eighty-three minute leg it is the minimum doing the work rather than the flight time, and that is worth grasping before you set our floor beside anybody else’s.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this route | Sharm el-Sheikh to Larnaca | from €7 000 | A floor of ours, not an offer: 2.00 h billed under the two-hour minimum × 3 500 EUR/h, the published entry rate for the cabin 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 was published by somebody else and is reproduced so that any offer, ours included, has a yardstick beside it. None of it is our offer. The opening question on any quotation here is where the aeroplane starts: something already working the eastern Mediterranean bills quite differently from something ferried down to the Red Sea empty, and northward into Cyprus is the direction in which ours are more often going home than setting out. The second is the return – whether it waits for you or flies back and comes again.
GET A FIRM PRICEThis corridor runs across the grain of the rest of our traffic, and that is its chief commercial advantage. Its season falls roughly between October and April: the aeroplanes that go quiet when the European summer ends are the ones flying it, so the months hardest to buy elsewhere are among the easiest here.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| October to April | The season on this pairing, and simultaneously the stretch where Cyprus keeps flying while much of Europe slows. Availability is good and the fleet is looking for work. | The best months for short notice and for asking what is already repositioning north. The Red Sea end is busy with scheduled leisure traffic, so name the hour rather than only the day. |
| June to September | The reverse picture: a crest across the Mediterranean, with European handling and island parking constraining things rather than aeroplanes. | Book earlier than the leg itself suggests, and ask about parking in Cyprus as well as about the aeroplane. |
| Easter and Christmas | Short, sharp crests on either side of the holidays, in both headings at once, and they land inside this route’s own season. | Settle dates early. The days immediately around the holiday go first and no quantity of notice afterwards recovers them. |
| May and late September | The bracketing weeks. Everything open, the numbers gentler, and a corridor that has neither emptied nor filled. | The value weeks. Any give in the diary should be spent on one of them. |
Cyprus is a junction for most of the people we land there, and it is where our own operations desk sits. A further leg settled in the same conversation almost always costs less than one bought afterwards.
West over the water in about an hour and a half, and the continuation requested most often when a Red Sea week turns into a Greek one.
Larnaca to Athens ›The long leg north-west, booked alongside this one more than any other when Cyprus is a stop rather than the point of the trip.
Larnaca to London ›Among the shortest hops off the island and among the busiest things our desk arranges. Worth raising in the same message rather than after you land.
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.