Amsterdam to Paris by private jet takes about 56 min over 407 km, Amsterdam Schiphol to Paris Le Bourget, normally on a light jet. We publish no starting figure for this sector because on a leg this short there is no honest one: give us the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes. The operations desk is staffed at every hour on +357 95 119759.
Schiphol to Le Bourget in about 56 minutes, both ends inside Schengen. On a sector this short the aircraft is the quick part of the day and the two airports are the slow part, which is why the departure window matters more here than the aeroplane. Arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTE407 km between two capitals that trade with each other every working week, and the shortest of the three approaches to Paris we publish alongside this one. It is a light jet sector and a same-day one: out in the morning, meetings, back in the evening on the same aircraft. Nothing about the flying is difficult. What decides the day is Schiphol, a scheduled hub where a business jet queues with the airlines, and the fact that Le Bourget puts you down beside the city rather than an hour outside it.
A busy scheduled hub at the Dutch end and a purpose-built business field at the French one, which is an uneven pairing and worth understanding before you fix the hour. Schiphol is the constraint on this route; Le Bourget rarely is. If your morning starts south of Amsterdam, the departure is worth a second look.
| Airport | Codes | Role | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam Schiphol | AMS / EHAM | 407 km | The departure, and the airport every distance and time on this page is calculated from. You use the general aviation terminal rather than the passenger halls, which keeps the process on the ground short, but it does not take your departure out of the hub's traffic: Schiphol is slot coordinated, so we book the window in advance instead of picking it on the day. Tell us the hour you need to be in Paris and we work the departure back from it. |
| Rotterdam The Hague | RTM / EHRD | the usual relief field | You are in Rotterdam, The Hague or the southern Randstad. Quieter than Schiphol and often faster on the ground when the hub is congested - and it is already 50-odd kilometres down the road towards Paris. Say where you are actually starting from and we will quote from the sensible field rather than the famous one. |
| Lelystad | LEY / EHLE | the other relief field | You are east of Amsterdam and want to keep clear of hub traffic altogether. Tell us your dates and we will confirm what can be arranged there rather than guess. |
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | arrival | Where the sector ends, and the airport the figures on this page are calculated to. The closest airport to central Paris and the busiest business-aviation field in Europe, with everything about it built around short ground times. In Paris Air Show weeks its own ramp becomes the constraint, so name those dates early. Orly (ORY / LFPO) is the fallback in a week when Le Bourget handling is fully committed, and Charles de Gaulle (CDG / LFPG) we use only when somebody is connecting onward to a scheduled intercontinental flight. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distance calculated great-circle.
At 407 km this is a light jet sector and nothing more. The aircraft is airborne for roughly 56 minutes, so cabin size here is a comfort preference rather than a range decision, and the useful question is not which type but which operator can hold your Schiphol slot on the morning you want it.
The default on this sector. Quick to arrange from either end, economical over 407 km, and small enough to be easy to place at Schiphol when stands are tight.
See the Phenom 300 ›The smaller, cheaper light jet for two or three people going down for a day of meetings and back. Briefcases and hand luggage rather than a week of suitcases.
See the Citation CJ2 ›The value option when the diary is fixed and the trip is short. It cruises more slowly than a newer light jet, which over a leg of under an hour costs you a handful of minutes and very little else.
See the Citation Bravo ›All three types are on our own fleet pages. If you want a larger cabin on this sector we arrange that too.
We do not publish a starting price for Amsterdam to Paris, and the reason is not coyness. On a 56-minute sector the flying is the smallest line on the bill, so any headline figure would be a number chosen to look good rather than one you could book against. What we can do is say honestly what moves the quotation.
The hourly rate you find online is the wrong tool here. Brokers publish a European light jet range of EUR 4,600 to 7,300 per hour (undated), another quotes from EUR 2,900 per hour (published February 2026) and a third publishes USD 3,750 to 4,200 per hour (August 2026). Those are rates for the aircraft class, not prices for this route. Multiply any of them by 56 minutes and you get a figure no operator will honour, because a short sector is priced on the minimum charge, the crew day and the positioning flight rather than on the clock.
Three things actually move your number. Where the aircraft happens to be that morning - an aeroplane already standing at Schiphol or Rotterdam costs you nothing to bring. Whether you are flying one way or coming back the same evening: a same-day return is often cheaper per leg, because the aircraft is not left stranded in the wrong country overnight. And the handling at both ends, which on a sector this short is a visible share of the bill rather than a rounding error. Send us the dates and we will price against them within 30 minutes.
This is a business route and it follows the working year rather than the holiday one. The pattern on the pairing is March to June and September to November, with a clear lull in August and another over the late-December holidays. Read it as a guide to how hard the morning slot will be to get, not to whether we can fly you.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| March to June | The strongest stretch of the year. Board meetings, deal timetables and trade events fill the Tuesday to Thursday mornings in both directions, and the early Schiphol windows are the first thing to go. | A week ahead for a morning departure. If your meeting time is fixed, give us that rather than a preferred take-off time and we will work backwards. |
| July to August | Corporate travel thins out across northern Europe and the fleet drifts south towards the Mediterranean, so fewer light jets sit at the Dutch end than in spring. | Good value if your trip is business rather than leisure, but confirm earlier than the quiet weeks suggest, because the aircraft may have to come to you before it can take you. |
| September to November | The second business peak. Autumn conference season and year-end deal work put pressure on the same midweek morning windows at both ends. | Two weeks out for a fixed date. Ask us to price the same-day return as well as the one way - on this pairing it is usually the cheaper shape of trip. |
| Late December | Quiet. Offices close in the Netherlands and in France and the corporate traffic between them stops almost completely. | The best weeks of the year to ask about an empty leg between the Randstad and Paris, and the easiest weeks to book at short notice. |
Le Bourget sits in the middle of Europe's busiest business-aviation corridor, so the connecting sector is almost always easier to arrange than the first one. If Paris is a stop rather than the destination, tell us at the start and we will keep the same aircraft on the whole itinerary where it makes sense.
Back across the Channel and out of Schengen, which is the one leg on a two-city day that needs passenger details in advance. A short hop we run in both directions.
Paris to London ›The Cote d'Azur run, and the busiest business-aviation corridor in Europe. If the Amsterdam meeting ends on a Friday, this is often where the aircraft is going next anyway.
Paris to Nice ›The other common second leg out of Le Bourget, and a useful one to name early: it changes which aircraft we put on the first sector.
Paris to Geneva ›Tell us your dates and how many of you there are. Your dedicated flight advisor will come back with aircraft options and a firm price.
All published routes are listed on the route index. Also useful: the fleet, current empty legs, jet sharing.