Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores flight

Flights from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores start at €37.90 and take 4h 3m at their fastest.

Ponta DelgadaPonta DelgadaHortaHortaVelasVelasPraia da VitóriaPraia da VitóriaSanta Cruz das FloresSanta Cruz das FloresMap data: Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)Map data: Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

The Flights from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores starts at €37.90 and takes 4h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 371 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 3mDoor to door
  • 53mMoving
  • €46.16 to €83.33From
  • 06:12 to 14:25First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 77.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€46.16 to €83.33 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.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €80.38Mon21
  2. about €69.17Tue22
  3. about €83.33Wed23
  4. about €70.35Thu24
  5. about €73.30Fri25
  6. about €75.66Sat26
  7. about €76.25Sun27
  8. about €46.16Mon28
  9. about €55.01Tue29
  10. about €57.37Wed30
  11. about €53.24Thu1
  12. about €48.52Fri2
  13. about €57.96Sat3
  14. about €49.70Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Fastest€47.34
  1. SATA Air Acores SA445514:2553m15:18Lajes Airport TERFlores Airport FLW

Door to door 4h 3mCO2 77.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
SATA Air Acores€36.724h 3m740 km/hFixed fareNot published

The flight gets you into Santa Cruz das Flores. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Santa Cruz das Flores for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €43.2490 days
  2. €37.7360 days
  3. €32.7845 days
  4. €32.7830 days
  5. €39.9321 days
  6. €42.1414 days
  7. €52.047 days
  8. €72.943 days
  9. €79.541 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €32.78.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 143 percent. The dearest point is €79.54, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €42.14Sun
  2. €42.69Mon
  3. €38.84Tue
  4. €45.44Wed
  5. €48.74Thu
  6. €46.54Fri
  7. €49.29Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Praia da Vitória

Air
  • TER

Santa Cruz das Flores

Air
  • FLW
  • CVU
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 371 km against 360 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Horta, Ponta Delgada. The gap between arriving and leaving is 72 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Praia da Vitória at 06:12 and the last at 14:25, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores take?

The Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores takes 4h 3m door to door, of which 53m is spent moving. The route runs 371 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.

How much does the Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores cost?

The Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores starts at €37.90 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €47.34. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores?

1 operators run the Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores: SATA Air Acores. 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.

Which terminal does the Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores use?

The Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores leaves from Lajes Airport TER and arrives at Flores Airport FLW. 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.

When should I book the Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores?

Fares for the Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €32.78. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 143 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores produce?

The Flight from Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores produces about 77.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 371 km, which works out at roughly 209 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

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.

Derived from service area The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

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.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Praia da Vitória to Santa Cruz das Flores on 20 September 2026: 371 km of route against 360 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €37.90, and 4h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from FLW into Santa Cruz das Flores is set by whoever drives it.

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A car waiting when you land in Santa Cruz das Flores

Settled in advance, so the ride into Santa Cruz das Flores costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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