Gulfstream G550 Private Jet Charter

Gulfstream G550 at a glance

Every figure in this block is copied from the specification table on our own fleet page for this type. Nothing here is a manufacturer brochure number and nothing has been rounded up.

What the range means in practice

12,501 km published range against a longest published route of 5,500 km. The G550 has 7,001 km more range than this network will ever ask for, so the interesting numbers are the nineteen seats, the eight berths and a cabin altitude line that most specification tables do not carry at all.

The number that matters on a chartered aircraft is not the headline range but the margin left over once the headline range has been spent. A published range figure is a still-air, optimum-cruise, sensible-payload figure. Fill all nineteen seats, load the hold and fly into a winter jet stream, and the usable figure comes down. On a marginal sector that decides between a nonstop and a fuel stop; here there are no marginal sectors.

The longest route we publish, London to Dubai at 5,500 km, uses 44 per cent of the published range. The remaining Gulf sectors, from Amsterdam at 5,169 km down to Athens at 3,273 km, leave between seven and nine thousand kilometres in hand. Our own route research names the G550 first on all five Dubai sectors published here.

The cabin-altitude line is worth reading twice. Our own description says the ventilation system maintains, at maximum altitude, a cabin equivalent to 1,800 m above sea level. Lower cabin altitude is the least visible comfort item on any aircraft and one of the few that actually changes how you feel on landing after seven hours: less dehydration, less headache, less of the flattening that people usually blame on the time zone.

None of that is a promise for your specific day. Published range is a specification, not a guarantee: the operating crew plans every flight against the actual weight, the actual weather and the actual alternate airfields, and their number is the one that counts. What the table below shows is a set of sectors none of which asks this aircraft for even half of what it has.

The twelve longest routes we publish, measured against 12,501 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.

The cabin

13.39 m long, 2.24 m wide, 1.88 m high, thirteen to nineteen seats, six to eight of which become beds, up to four seating areas and a 4.81 m³ hold. Here is what each of those measurements means once you are on board.

Up to four seating areas. That is the line from our own description for the type, and at 13.39 m there is length to make it real. Nineteen seats in four areas is a different aeroplane from nineteen seats in one: it is the configuration that lets a delegation travel together without travelling on top of each other.

Seat count. Thirteen to nineteen is the widest passenger band on our fleet page apart from the G650, which lists the same. If your party is fifteen or more, this and the G650 are the two purpose-built jets we would start from.

Cabin altitude. The equivalent of 1,800 m at maximum cruising altitude, per our own description. On a seven-hour sector that is the single specification line most likely to change how the passengers feel when they get off.

Sleeping. Six to eight berths. Against thirteen to nineteen seats that is roughly half the cabin flat, and eight is a high absolute number - only the Global 7000 at seven to eight and the G650 at six to ten are comparable on our fleet page.

Width and luggage. 2.24 m of cabin width, the Gulfstream large-cabin figure shared with the G450, and a 4.81 m³ hold - marginally more than the G450 at 4.79 m³, less than the Global family at 5.52 m³. The Falcon 7X is 10 cm wider at 2.34 m but carries 4.00 m³. These are the trades worth making deliberately.

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.

What it costs

From 7,600 EUR per flight hour. That is the rate Diamond Executive Aero Services publishes for the Gulfstream G550 on its own rate card. 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.

The same 7,600 EUR hourly figure appears on our rate card for the Legacy 650, Challenger 605, Falcon 900, Falcon 7X, 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.

Which routes we quote it on

Our own route research names the Gulfstream G550 as a suggested aircraft on 5 of the routes published on this website. They run from 4,662 km to 5,500 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.

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.

Questions we get about this aircraft

The Gulfstream G550 and its cabin

The aircraft and the cabin as they are, and the seating plan underneath. These are the images we publish for this type.

Cabin plan for the Gulfstream G550. Layouts vary between individual aircraft; we confirm the plan of the actual aircraft with the quotation.

Prices we have published for the Gulfstream G550

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.

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Other aircraft in this category

These are the types our own fleet page groups alongside the Gulfstream G550. Every figure quoted below is from their specification tables on this website.

The complete fleet is on the aircraft index. Also useful: all published routes, current empty legs, jet sharing, how chartering works.