Route brief · AUH → ATH
Abu Dhabi → Athens
$328
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 11 – Nov 20 · 9 nights
Pegasus2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefATHAthensThe Acropolis at golden hour, then souvlaki for pocket change. Gateway fare to the whole Aegean.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsEleftherios Venizelos (ATH)All routes into AthensWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Athens: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 9.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Pegasus, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $328 for 3,259 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Athens, this fare ranks 5th — 2.1× the $156 we hold from Dublin. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Abu Dhabi, where the middle fare is $392. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $414 then versus $378 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $239, on Oct 27.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH)
- Flight time
- ~9.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,259 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Pegasus
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
AUH → ATH, answered.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Athens?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Abu Dhabi to Athens?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Pegasus. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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