The heavy jet we name first on our longest European and eastern Mediterranean routes: thirteen seats, six of which become beds, a 6.80 m³ hold sealed off from the cabin, 7,223 km of range and a published hourly rate we will put in writing. Here is what those numbers mean on the sectors we actually quote it on.
REQUEST A QUOTEEvery figure in this block is copied from the specification table on our own fleet page for this type. Nothing is a manufacturer brochure number.
7,223 km published range against a longest published route of 5,500 km. On this network range is not what limits this aircraft - which is precisely why it is the type our route research names on the four-and-a-half to six-hour sectors.
Published range is a still-air figure at optimum cruise with a sensible payload. Thirteen passengers, a full 6.80 m³ hold and a winter headwind will all take something out of it. On a sector already close to the limit that erosion is the difference between a nonstop and a technical stop; on this aeroplane, on these routes, it is a footnote.
The five sectors where our own route research names this type - London to Paphos at 3,228 km, Athens to Dubai at 3,273 km, London to Larnaca at 3,288 km, Vienna to Dubai at 4,224 km and Dubai to Munich at 4,565 km - all sit between 2,658 km and 3,995 km inside the published range. That is not a coincidence. It is the band where a heavy jet has enough margin to fly the sector fully loaded in any weather without needing the fuel-planning conversation that a super-midsize would need.
Beyond those five, the arithmetic still works. The four longest Gulf sectors we publish run from 4,662 km to 5,500 km, all of them inside 7,223 km. We name long-range types rather than heavy ones on those routes, but the reason is cabin and comfort over seven hours rather than any question about whether the aeroplane arrives.
The caveat that applies to every aircraft applies here too: published range is a specification, not a clearance. The operating crew plan against the actual weight, the actual wind and the actual alternates on the day, and that plan governs. The point of a margin measured in thousands of kilometres is that you never have to hear about it.
| Published route | Distance | Nonstop? | Margin against the published range |
|---|---|---|---|
| London to Dubai | 5,500 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 1,723 km |
| Amsterdam to Dubai | 5,169 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,054 km |
| Geneva to Dubai | 4,920 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,303 km |
| Zurich to Dubai | 4,769 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,454 km |
| Milan to Dubai | 4,662 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,561 km |
| Dubai to Munich | 4,565 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,658 km |
| Vienna to Dubai | 4,224 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,999 km |
| London to Larnaca | 3,288 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 3,935 km |
| Athens to Dubai | 3,273 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 3,950 km |
| London to Paphos | 3,228 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 3,995 km |
| London to Mykonos | 2,568 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 4,655 km |
| Larnaca to Nice | 2,461 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 4,762 km |
Below 2,400 km the question stops being interesting: every remaining route on this website is inside the range of this aircraft with room to spare. These are the mid-length ones, from about an hour and a quarter to two and a half hours by our own published flight-time estimates.
Distances are great-circle figures between airport coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Flight times quoted anywhere on this page are estimates from a model fitted to the flight times Diamond Executive Aero Services already publishes, not measured block times. The 19 routes shorter than 700 km are listed on the route index. Range figures are the ones published on our own fleet page and assume still air, optimum cruise and a sensible payload.
13.11 m long, 2.10 m wide, 1.83 m high, thirteen seats, six berths and a 6.80 m³ hold isolated from the cabin. What that means once the door is closed:
Standing up. 1.83 m of cabin height - six feet exactly. Most adults walk the cabin upright; a passenger approaching 1.90 m ducks slightly. Among the large jets our fleet page lists in this bracket, only the Gulfstream G280/200 at 1.91 m and the Falcon 2000 series at 1.88 m are taller, and both of those carry fewer people.
The length is what you are buying. 13.11 m of cabin, against 7.77 m to 7.98 m for the other large jets on our own fleet page. That is not a marginal difference, it is nearly double, and it is what makes a galley, a wardrobe and a rear lavatory possible without eating the seating. Thirteen passengers in 13.11 m is a metre of cabin each.
Sleeping. Six berths, formed the direct way: each seat converts into a bed. Six passengers lie flat. On Dubai to Munich at just over six hours by our own published estimate, that is the specification line clients ask about first.
Luggage. 6.80 m³, in a compartment isolated from the passenger cabin - a separate hold, not a cabin locker. The comparable figures on our fleet page for this class are 3.26 m³, 3.40 m³ and 3.70 m³. If the trip involves ski bags, golf bags or production equipment, this is the number that decides it.
Crew. A flight attendant is carried, with a galley and a lavatory at the rear of the aircraft. On four-to-six-hour sectors with a full cabin, that is a working requirement rather than a flourish.
Cabin dimensions, berth counts, baggage volumes and the flight-attendant line are all taken from the specification tables published on this website, including the comparison figures quoted for other types.
From 7,600 EUR per flight hour. That is the rate Diamond Executive Aero Services publishes for the Legacy 650. It is a rate card, not a quotation.
An hourly rate is the largest single component of a charter price and it is never the whole of it. A quotation also carries the cost of positioning the aircraft to your departure airport and away again afterwards, landing, handling and parking charges at both ends, crew duty and, on some dates, overnight costs. Two trips of the same duration on the same aircraft can differ substantially because one starts where the aeroplane already is and the other does not.
Used carefully, though, the hourly rate is a good sanity check. Take the flight time we publish for a route, multiply, and you have the flight-time component of the price before the fixed costs are added. The examples below use our own published flight-time estimates.
| Route | Distance | Published flight-time estimate | Flight time at 7,600 EUR/h, one way |
|---|---|---|---|
| London to Paphos | 3,228 km | 4:29 | approx. 34,100 EUR |
| Athens to Dubai | 3,273 km | 4:32 | approx. 34,500 EUR |
| London to Larnaca | 3,288 km | 4:34 | approx. 34,700 EUR |
| Vienna to Dubai | 4,224 km | 5:44 | approx. 43,600 EUR |
| Dubai to Munich | 4,565 km | 6:10 | approx. 46,900 EUR |
The same 7,600 EUR hourly figure appears on our rate card for the Challenger 605, Falcon 900, Gulfstream G550, Global 5000, which is what makes it a class rate rather than an aircraft rate. Choosing between types inside a band is a decision about cabin, berths and luggage, not about the hour.
Our own route research names the Legacy 650 as a suggested aircraft on 5 of the routes published on this website. They run from 3,228 km to 4,565 km. These are not the only sectors it can fly - the range table above covers that - they are the ones where we would put it forward first.
| Route | Distance | Published flight-time estimate | Also suggested on this route |
|---|---|---|---|
| London to Paphos | 3,228 km | 4:29 | Challenger 605, Falcon 900 |
| Athens to Dubai | 3,273 km | 4:32 | Challenger 605, Falcon 900 |
| London to Larnaca | 3,288 km | 4:34 | Challenger 605, Falcon 900 |
| Vienna to Dubai | 4,224 km | 5:44 | Challenger 605, Falcon 900 |
| Dubai to Munich | 4,565 km | 6:10 | Challenger 605, Falcon 900 |
Suggested aircraft per route come from the route research file behind this website. Every route page listed here also names alternatives, because availability on your dates decides more charters than any specification does. The full list is on the route index.
The aircraft and the cabin as they are, and the seating plan underneath. These are the images we publish for this type.
These are our own figures for this aircraft, not somebody else’s estimate. They are whole-aircraft prices for the sectors named, at the passenger count shown, and they move with the date, the positioning of the aircraft and the fuel price on the day. Treat them as the size of the number rather than as a quotation: only a written quotation against your dates is a price.
| Sector | Passengers | Price | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca - London | 10 | 33000 € | 04:42 |
| Larnaca - Nice | 8 | 23000 € | 03:18 |
| Nice - Ibiza | 10 | 10500 € | 01:30 |
Tell us your route, your dates and how many of you there are. Your dedicated flight advisor will come back with availability and a firm price.
These are the types our own fleet page groups alongside the Legacy 650. Every figure quoted below is from their specification tables on this website.
Identical on every figure our fleet page publishes: 7,223 km, 13 passengers, 6 berths, the same 13.11 m cabin.
See the Legacy 600 ›Listed at 7,400 km, 8-10 passengers, 2.34 m of cabin width and 1.88 m of height. Fewer seats, more room per seat.
See the Falcon 2000 series ›Listed at 7,408 km, 9-12 passengers and 2.41 m of cabin width - the widest of this group, and on the same 7,600 EUR hourly band.
See the Challenger 650/605/604 ›The complete fleet is on the aircraft index. Also useful: all published routes, current empty legs, jet sharing, how chartering works.