Hawker Beechcraft Premier IA Private Jet Charter

Premier IA 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

2,320 km of published range and 854 km/h of cruise. Thirty-six of the forty-eight routes on this website are inside the range; twelve are not, and the closest miss is 141 km.

The twelve beyond it are every sector of 2,461 km and longer: the seven Gulf routes, London to Larnaca at 3,288 km, Athens to Dubai at 3,273 km, London to Paphos at 3,228 km, London to Mykonos at 2,568 km and Larnaca to Nice at 2,461 km. That last one misses by 141 km, which is close enough to be frustrating and not close enough to plan on.

What remains is the whole European network, and there the aircraft is quick. 854 km/h is the fastest cruise of the light group on our fleet page - the Phenom 300 is 839 km/h, the Nextant 400 XTi 828 km/h, the HondaJet 778 km/h and the Piaggio Avanti 737 km/h - and it is within a few knots of midsize jets such as the Learjet 60XR at 859 km/h.

On the longest routes it takes, that speed is worth something concrete. London to Malaga at 1,721 km leaves 599 km of margin, Nice to Athens at 1,542 km leaves 778 km and Rome to London at 1,488 km leaves 832 km. Those are comfortable, and they are flown quicker in this aircraft than in anything else in its class.

The 2.18 m³ hold is the other reason this type gets asked for. In the light group only the Phenom 300 at 2.27 m³ carries more, and the Piaggio Avanti at 1.00 m³, the Nextant 400 XTi at 1.31 m³ and the HondaJet at 1.60 m³ carry considerably less. Six people with real luggage on London to Ibiza is a case this aeroplane handles.

Published range is a specification, not a clearance. The operating crew plan each flight against the actual weight, weather and alternates. Where a route on this website is beyond the published figure we have named it rather than left it to the table.

The twelve longest routes we publish, measured against 2,320 km

Below 2,400 km every remaining route on this website is inside the published range, though on the longest of them the margin is 599 km rather than a comfortable thousand. These are the mid-length sectors, 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

3.38 m long, 1.65 m wide, 1.68 m high, six seats and 2.18 m³ of hold. The cross-section is generous for the class and the length is the shortest we publish - both facts matter.

Height and width. 1.68 m high and 1.65 m wide. In the light group only the Piaggio Avanti beats those figures, at 1.75 m and 1.80 m. Against the Phenom 300 at 1.50 m by 1.55 m, the HondaJet at 1.47 m by 1.52 m and the Citations at 1.45 m by 1.47 m, this is a noticeably roomier cross-section. Most adults still stoop, but not by much.

Length is the trade. 3.38 m, and that is the shortest cabin on our entire fleet page - more than a metre shorter than the Piaggio Avanti at 4.55 m, a metre and a half shorter than the Phenom 300 at 4.88 m and two metres shorter than the HondaJet at 5.43 m. Six seats in 3.38 m is close seating. On a one-hour sector it is fine; on a three-hour one it is a real consideration.

Speed. 854 km/h, the fastest light jet on our fleet page and within five km/h of the Learjet 60XR. On the routes this type reaches, that closes most of the practical gap to the midsize class.

Luggage. 2.18 m³, second only to the Phenom 300 in the light group. That is a genuinely large hold for a cabin this short and it is the specification line that makes six-passenger holiday charters work.

Crew and berths. No flight attendant and no berths are listed, which is standard for the class on our fleet page. Catering is loaded before departure.

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.

Questions we get about this aircraft

The Premier IA 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 Premier IA. Layouts vary between individual aircraft; we confirm the plan of the actual aircraft with the quotation.

Prices we have published for the Premier IA

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. Our own guide rate for the type is EUR 3,600 per flight hour; the sector figures below are whole-aircraft prices and are not that rate multiplied by the flight time.

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Other aircraft in this category

These are the types our own fleet page groups alongside the Premier IA. 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.