Flights from Melbourne to Athens start at €1,158.31 and take 26h 1m at their fastest.
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The Flights from Melbourne to Athens starts at €1,158.31 and takes 26h 1m door to door, run by 5 operators over 15,398 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 14 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€1,444.46 to €3,591.47 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
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Emirates E442107:3017h 16m17:46Melbourne Airport MELDubai International Airport DXBEmirates E742318:574h 51m22:48Dubai International Airport DXBAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport ATHChanges at Dubai, with 71 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 26h 28mCO2 4512.2 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Qatar Airways QA185707:3016h 36m16:06Melbourne Airport MELHamad International Airport DOH
Cathay Pacific CP917117:464h 35m22:21Hamad International Airport DOHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport ATHChanges at Doha, with 100 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 26h 1mCO2 4511.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
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The Flight from Melbourne to Athens takes 26h 1m door to door, of which 21h 11m is spent moving. The route runs 15,398 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
The Flight from Melbourne to Athens starts at €1,158.31 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €1,334.13. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
5 operators run the Flight from Melbourne to Athens: Etihad Airways, Aegean Airlines, Qatar Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates. Between them they file around 3 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Flight from Melbourne to Athens leaves from Melbourne Airport MEL and arrives at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport ATH. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Fares for the Flight from Melbourne to Athens bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €1,158.31. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 210 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Melbourne to Athens produces about 4511.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 15398 km, which works out at roughly 293 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
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26h 1m
21h 11m
€1,444.46 to €3,591.47
07:30 to 07:30
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4511.8 kg
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