Biggin Hill to Porto by private jet takes about 2 h 03 over 1,304 km, onto a single runway of 3,480 m eleven kilometres from the middle of the city. Of the routes we publish from Biggin Hill this is the uncomplicated one — no runway question, no second airport, no wind story.
REQUEST A QUOTEOf the routes we publish from Biggin Hill, Porto is the long one — and the only one that is neither Alpine nor Mediterranean. Two hours out of south-east London to the Atlantic coast, onto a runway that imposes no constraint at all. Porto itself, the city end and what people fly there for, is on our London to Porto page; this one is about leaving from Biggin Hill.
Three of the four routes we publish from Biggin Hill come with a caveat. Gibraltar has 1,776 m of runway and wind off the Rock. Chambery has 2,020 m and a winter surface. Turin has a second airport that looks right and is not.
Porto has none of that. One runway of 3,480 m at 69 m above the sea, eleven kilometres from the middle of the city, and a sector short enough that no aircraft we would offer is working hard. When someone asks what an uncomplicated private flight looks like, this is close to the answer.
What is left to get right is therefore the ordinary part: the right cabin for the number of you, the timing at the London end, and the car waiting when you land. That sounds like less of a job than it is, and it is the part clients actually feel.
The drive, and nothing else. From the City, Kent or Surrey, Biggin Hill spares you the crossing of London that Luton or Farnborough ask for. On a two-hour flight that saving is a real share of the total journey.
Where the aircraft sits on the morning can outweigh it. If the type that suits your party is based elsewhere, we will tell you the trade rather than quietly move you to a smaller cabin to keep the departure airport.
Two hours with luggage. The honest question is how many of you there are and how long you want to be sitting, not what the runway allows.
Light jet, comfortable for four to six on a two-hour sector.
Midsize with stand-up height — the difference you notice on the second hour, not the first.
Super-midsize, for a larger group or a working flight with a table.
Cabin dimensions and range per type are on the aircraft pages.
We do not publish a price for this route. The number is set by the aircraft, where it starts the day, whether it waits for you in Porto or flies home empty, and the fees at both ends. Waiting versus returning is the one that moves it most on a two-hour sector: a jet that sits three days in Portugal is priced differently from one that turns straight round.
Tell us the dates and whether you want the aircraft to wait, and you will have real options with real numbers, normally within 30 minutes. The operations desk is on duty 24/7.
Tell us your dates, how many of you there are, and whether you want the aircraft to wait in Porto. On this sector that single answer moves the price more than anything else.
All published routes are listed on the route index.