The sector is held by Cyprus Airways and Emirates.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DXB Dubai to LCA Larnaca
Dubai International, the United Arab Emirates, to Larnaca International, Cyprus. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,343 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 30m
- Door to door
- 10h 15m
What DXB to LCA looks like
The DXB to LCA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dubai DXB to Larnaca LCA is a medium haul sector of 2,343 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,343 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 30m.
Dubai DXB is a major hub in the network held here, 221 scheduled destinations and 575.1 departures a day. Larnaca LCA has 86 destinations and 120 departures a day.
Dubai carries about 4.8 times the departures of Larnaca, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Larnaca runs 2 hours behind of Dubai in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Europe and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 66 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on DXB to LCA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DXB to LCA | 2.43 | 17 | Cyprus Airways, Emirates |
| LCA to DXB | 1.86 | 13 | Cyprus Airways, Emirates |
Two carriers hold the sector, Cyprus Airways and Emirates, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 30 departures a week on DXB to LCA, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 3h 30m block time on DXB to LCA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DXB | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DXB before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DXB to LCA in the air, estimated | 210 min | 8h 00m |
| Formalities at LCA | 90 min | 9h 30m |
| Delivery run in Larnaca | 45 min | 10h 15m |
| Door to door | 615 min | 10h 15m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for DXB to LCA is 10h 15m.
A courier who leaves Dubai at 09:00 local is on the ground in Larnaca at about 10:30 local and at the door by 12:45 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Larnaca, the last useful departure from Dubai is around 14:15 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 43 of them join DXB to LCA.
| Connecting at | DXB to hub, flights a day | Hub to LCA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beirut BEY | 7.14 | 3.71 | 2,348 | 5h 02m |
| Manama BAH | 13.29 | 0.57 | 2,372 | 5h 07m |
| Amman AMM | 8 | 1.14 | 2,436 | 5h 12m |
| Doha DOH | 11.43 | 1.57 | 2,406 | 5h 23m |
| Tel Aviv TLV | 11.14 | 18.72 | 2,470 | 5h 28m |
| Yerevan EVN | 1.43 | 4.71 | 3,060 | 5h 54m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at DXB in the afternoon actually flies on.
43 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Beirut BEY, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.7 times a day.
Through BEY the routing covers 2,348 km against the 2,343 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 02m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 32m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Manama BAH at 5h 07m and Amman AMM at 5h 12m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dubai, Sharjah SHJ is 18 km away by great circle and carries 81 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Larnaca, Paphos PFO is 105 km away by great circle and carries 52 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Dubai DXB, night operations: Operates around the clock. The overnight departure bank to Europe leaves between roughly 01:00 and 04:00 local, which is what makes a same day European delivery possible.
Plan Dubai to Larnaca yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for DXB to LCA in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The DXB airport entry
- The LCA airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Arab Emirates
- Hand carry into Cyprus
- The written lane, Dubai to Accra
- The written lane, Dubai to Addis Ababa
- The written lane, Dubai to Almaty
- The route calculator
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