Ferry vs Flight: Which Mediterranean island routes are cheaper by ferry or plane?

Route decision guide

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Best Routes to Book a Ferry

These are the routes where the ferry fare created the largest cash saving against the comparable roundtrip flight fare in the dataset.

Best Routes to Book a Plane

These are the routes where the comparable roundtrip flight fare was the clearest cash saving versus taking the ferry.

Full data table

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Search by route, then compare roundtrip ferry and flight fares. Positive savings mean the ferry was cheaper. Negative savings mean the flight was cheaper.

Fares were compared using roundtrip prices available at the time of research.

Rank	Route	Flight roundtrip	Ferry roundtrip	Price difference	Ferry saving

Methodology

How the comparison was built

The study ranks Mediterranean travel routes to identify where travellers can save most by taking a ferry instead of a flight during peak summer season.

Route selectionRoutes were included where the destination airport was within 45 minutes of the city centre, keeping the comparison practical for travellers.

Price sourcesFerry prices were sourced primarily from Ferryhopper. Flight data was gathered from Google Travel and Skyscanner.

Like-for-like matchingEach distinct port-to-port ferry route was matched to the closest corresponding airport pair. Multiple ferry routes could share the same flight alternative where applicable.

Data caveatAll prices were collected at the time of analysis and may vary depending on availability, seasonality and booking conditions.

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