Thessaloniki to Larnaca comes to 1,127 km and about 1 h 50 airborne, flown in one hop in a super-midsize cabin – Challenger 350, Legacy 500 or Gulfstream G280. Indicative price from €7 000 for the whole aircraft, one way. This is the straightforward one: full handling at both ends, workable hours, no island ground-time rule and nothing at either airport that dictates your morning. The only variable you genuinely control is the road in from wherever in Halkidiki you have been staying. A written quotation is with you inside half an hour, and +357 95 119759 answers whatever the hour.
Northern Greece to Cyprus in under two hours, one aeroplane, no terminal. Send the party, the dates and the address you are setting off from, and the departure hour gets built around the drive instead of the other way about.
REQUEST A QUOTEUnder two hours east across the Aegean, and the least complicated sector we publish out of northern Greece. Thessaloniki has full handling, workable hours and none of the ground-time rules that shape a Cycladic departure; Larnaca handles business aviation at any hour of the night. That leaves precisely one variable, and it is not an aviation one. Halkidiki is a long peninsula and the airport is at the top of it, so the hour you must leave the villa is what decides the hour you leave Greece. Give us that address at the enquiry and the departure time works itself out.
There are alternatives at either end, and on this route they are there to suit where you happen to be rather than to work around anything an airport imposes.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thessaloniki Makedonia | SKG / LGTS | departure | Full handling, workable hours and no ground-time rule of the kind that governs the Greek islands, which is what makes this a considerably easier departure than a Cycladic one. The aircraft can stand here before it takes you, so the drop-and-reposition pattern that inflates island quotations does not apply. The practical planning happens on the road rather than on the apron: the field is the gateway to Halkidiki, and the peninsula is long. |
| Larnaca | LCA / LCLK | arrival | The main Cyprus field, business aviation handling at any hour, and the end that never constrains this flight. A late departure from Greece is arrivable here without argument. |
| Paphos | PFO / LCPH | alternative arrival | The western Cyprus field, closer to Limassol and the west coast, about forty-five minutes from Larnaca by road. The right answer if that is the side of the island you are going to. |
| Kavala | KVA / LGKV | alternative departure, eastern north | For the east of northern Greece, subject to handling. Worth raising at the enquiry rather than assuming it, and worth raising early if it is closer to where you have been. |
| Athens | ATH / LGAV | alternative departure | The field to use when the trip was really about the islands rather than the north, and you are working your way back through the mainland. Full business-aviation handling around the clock. |
Because slot and handling conditions are revised season by season, we confirm them for your specific dates rather than quoting a standing rule.
One hour fifty with a full cabin and a summer’s luggage is comfortable super-midsize work, and undemanding for all three types below. It is also short enough that a smaller cabin is a fair question, and we would rather you asked it than assumed the answer.
Super-midsize cabin with stand-up height and range to spare over this sector. The usual answer when the party is large or the hold is full.
Challenger 350 ›Comparable reach with a quiet cabin, and frequently the aircraft that is genuinely free in the eastern Mediterranean when the Challenger is not.
Legacy 500 ›Fast and long-legged for its class, and the one to name when the day has fixed hours at both ends of it.
Gulfstream G280 ›From €7 000 one way for the whole aircraft. That is a floor we worked out, not a quotation, and the working is on the page.
No published price for this city pair has reached us from a source we would be willing to reprint, in either direction. So the figure is arithmetic rather than a borrowed number: two hours charged, because a two-hour minimum applies to a sector shorter than that and 1 h 50 is shorter than that, at the published starting rate of €3 500 an hour for the cabin class (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), rounded down. Note what that means – the floor here is built from the minimum and the cabin class rather than from the flight time, which is exactly why it is the same figure in both directions.
Above the floor, this route is unusually honest: the airports are not the variable, the aircraft position is. Thessaloniki will let an aeroplane stand, so nobody is forced into the drop-and-reposition pattern that inflates island quotations. What decides your number instead is whether a suitable aircraft is finishing work nearby or has to be flown in for you, and whether it waits in Cyprus or comes straight back. Those are the two questions to put to any quotation you are holding, ours included.
For a market ruler: brokers publish €4 600 to €9 700 an hour for midsize jets in Europe (undated, retrieved 23.08.2026), entry rates from €2 900 to €3 500 an hour (19.02.2026) and $3 750 to $4 600 an hour for light to midsize cabins (August 2026), with empty-leg discounts published at 50 to 75 per cent. Other people’s numbers, reprinted so that you can audit ours.
GET A FIRM PRICEThose figures were published by other people and are reprinted here as a yardstick only. None is our tariff and none is an offer. The price we will defend is a written quotation against your dates.
Two calendars facing opposite ways – and on this pairing the summer squeeze comes from European handling generally rather than from anything the Greek field does to you.
June to September is the peak in both directions, and the constraints then are European handling and island parking elsewhere in the region rather than anything Thessaloniki imposes on you. Book early and ask about the aircraft’s wider week, not just about your own sector. Easter and Christmas give short sharp peaks either side of the holiday, and the days closest to it fill first.
From October to April Cyprus keeps flying while much of Europe slows, and availability on this corridor is good. Those are the months for short notice and the best months to ask about a repositioning flight. May and late September are the shoulder weeks: everything still open, softer pricing, and the period in which a quotation sits nearest the floor above.
For most parties Cyprus is a base rather than a full stop. These are the legs we are asked to quote alongside this one most often.
The short eastern hop, published in its own right with its own airport notes. One of the commonest continuations from a Cyprus stop.
Larnaca to Tel Aviv ›South across the eastern Mediterranean, and frequently added to a Cyprus week rather than booked as a separate trip.
Larnaca to Cairo ›The westbound half of the same trip, published as a page of its own. Quoted with this one, the pair is almost always better than two singles.
Larnaca to Thessaloniki ›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.