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Private Jet Charter Dublin to London

Dublin to London Luton is 433 km, about 58 minutes in the air, Dublin to London, normally on a light jet. We do not publish a starting figure for this pairing, because on a sector this short the ground arrangements weigh more than the distance. 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.

Under an hour across the Irish Sea on a light jet. There is no road and no rail on this one, so everybody crosses by air, and the difference between a good day and a wasted one is made entirely on the ground at either end. That is the part we arrange. 24/7.

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The route at a glance

433 km east, about 58 minutes in the air - the shortest kind of sector we fly regularly, and the one on which the aeroplane matters least. When the flight is under an hour, everything that costs you time is on the ground: the terminal you leave from, the border formalities, the car waiting the other side. Fly it privately and that ground time is measured in minutes rather than in hours, which is the entire argument for this route.

Distance
433 km
234 nautical miles great-circle, Dublin to London Luton; the track actually flown across the Irish Sea and over Wales and the Midlands is longer than the straight line
Flight time
approx. 0 h 58 min
An estimate from a model fitted to our own published times, not a measured block time. On a sector this short the climb and descent are most of the flight
Departure
DUB
Dublin - your departure, and a busy airport with a great deal of traffic that is not yours, so the hour you want is confirmed rather than assumed
Arrival
LTN
London Luton - one of the London fields built around business aviation, which is what keeps the arrival end of an under-an-hour flight from swallowing the time you just saved
Typical aircraft
Light jet
Phenom 300, Citation CJ2, Citation Bravo - a light cabin is more than enough for 433 km, and on this route the availability on your date decides the type
Busiest months
Mar - Jun and Sep - Nov
A business pattern rather than a holiday one. The corridor fills in the two working halves of the year and goes quiet in August and in late December
Distance is the great-circle figure between airport coordinates, taken from the OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Flight time is computed, not measured: t = 0.414 h + great-circle km / 793 km/h, a model least-squares fitted to the 12 route and time pairs Diamond Executive Aero Services already publishes on this website; the largest deviation from those published times is 14 minutes. Real block time varies with airway routing, wind, slots and aircraft type. Your quotation carries the real schedule.

Which airports we use

Dublin to London Luton. On a flight this short the two terminals are a bigger part of your day than the aeroplane is, so it is worth understanding what each end gives you before you look at anything else.

AirportCodesDistanceSuits you if
DublinDUB433 kmYour departure. It is a busy airport carrying a great deal of traffic that has nothing to do with you, so the departure hour is something we confirm rather than something you assume - particularly first thing in the morning, which is when everybody on this corridor wants to go. The private terminal is the point: you arrive close to your departure time rather than two hours before it, and on a 58-minute flight that saving is larger than the flight.
London LutonLTNarrivalWhere the sector ends, and chosen for the same reason. Luton is one of the London airports built around business aviation rather than tolerating it, so the walk from aircraft to car is short and the formalities are handled at the business-aviation terminal rather than in a public hall. If your London meeting is at a fixed hour, tell us the hour and we will work the whole day backwards from it.

Airport codes and coordinates: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distance calculated great-circle.

Aircraft for Dublin to London

433 km is a short sector by any measure, and comfortably inside the light jet band. About 58 minutes in the air. Nothing on this route is decided by range, so the choice comes down to how many of you there are, what you are carrying, and which aircraft is genuinely free on your date - which on a corridor this dense is a real question rather than a formality.

Embraer Phenom 300

The usual answer when there is a group of you. Enough cabin for a full team travelling together, and quick to turn around at the London end if the aircraft is going on somewhere else.

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Cessna Citation CJ2

Often the sensible choice here. On a flight under an hour the smaller cabin costs you almost nothing, and a smaller aircraft on a short sector is where the economics of this route are best.

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Cessna Citation Bravo

The practical option when there is luggage, samples or equipment as well as passengers. Worth naming at the enquiry stage, because what you are carrying changes the answer more than the distance does.

See the Citation Bravo ›

All three types are on our own fleet pages. Midsize and heavier cabins can be arranged on this sector too.

What it costs

We do not publish a starting price for Dublin to London. On a 58-minute sector the flying is the smallest component of the bill, so a headline figure derived from the distance would describe the least important thing about the trip. What you are actually buying is an aircraft positioned at Dublin at your hour, a crew, two sets of ground handling and, more often than not, a wait at the far end.

The published reference points are hourly rates for the aircraft class. LunaJets publishes EUR 4,600 to 7,300 per hour for European light jets, undated; Eurosky publishes from EUR 2,900 per hour, retrieved 19 February 2026; Paramount Business Jets publishes USD 3,750 to 4,200 per hour, retrieved August 2026. They are useful for checking a quotation and useless for building one, and on this route they mislead in a particular way: multiplying any of them by 58 minutes produces a number far below what a real short sector costs, because the fixed items - the crew day, the landing and handling at each end, the positioning - do not shrink when the flight does.

That is the honest characteristic of short sectors generally, and it cuts both ways. It means the price per kilometre looks poor and the price per hour saved looks excellent. It also means the biggest single saving available on this corridor is not a cheaper aircraft but a better-placed one: if a jet is already on the Irish side, or already coming back empty from London, the positioning disappears from your bill. Ask us what is moving on your dates before you fix them.

The hourly rates above are third-party published figures for the aircraft class, not prices for this route, and they are shown so that you can check any quotation you receive, ours included. Only a written quotation from Diamond Executive Aero Services, against your dates, is a price. Call +357 95 119759, 24/7.

When to fly, and when to book early

This is a working corridor and it keeps office hours. It fills when both cities are at their desks and empties when they are not, so the pattern is the opposite of the Mediterranean routes: the weeks that are impossible elsewhere in Europe are the easy weeks here.

PeriodWhat happensWhat to do
March to JuneThe first business peak. Both ends are working, and the pressure sits on the early morning departures out of Dublin, because a 58-minute flight makes a whole London day possible only if you leave early enough to have one.Book the hour, not the day. If the meeting is fixed, give us the time you need to be in London and let us build the departure back from it.
July and AugustThe corridor thins, and August is the quietest month on it. European demand and a good deal of the fleet have moved to the Mediterranean.The easiest weeks of the year to arrange this sector at short notice, and the best weeks to ask about a repositioning flight rather than a full charter.
September to NovemberThe second business peak, usually the denser of the two. The working year restarts at both ends simultaneously and the morning aircraft are spoken for first.Plan these weeks rather than improvising them. If you fly this route regularly, tell us the pattern and we will hold against it instead of quoting each leg cold.
Late DecemberQuiet. Offices close on both sides of the Irish Sea and the business traffic stops with them.Short notice is realistic. Ask for a one-way rather than assuming the aircraft must wait for you - in these weeks it usually has somewhere else to be.

Onward from London

Luton is frequently the middle of a trip rather than the end of one. If there is a second leg, say so when you ask for the price: arranging it in the same quotation is nearly always cheaper than arranging it afterwards.

London to Paris

The short hop back onto the continent, and one of the most common continuations from a London morning. Same aircraft, same day.

London to Paris ›

London to Palma de Mallorca

The Balearic leg, and the direction the London fleet is pointing in summer - which is exactly the season when this corridor is quiet.

London to Palma ›

Empty legs both ways

On a short, dense corridor the positioning flights are the saving. If your dates bend by a day, this is where to look first.

Current empty legs ›

Questions we get about this route

How long is the flight from Dublin to London?
About 58 minutes in the air over 433 km, plus roughly 15 minutes on the ground at each end at a business-aviation terminal. The flight time is computed rather than measured: it comes from a model fitted to the flight times we publish ourselves on this website, and it moves with airway routing, wind, slots and aircraft type. On a sector this short the climb and the descent are most of the flight, which is why the figure is fairly stable.
Is it worth chartering for a flight this short?
That depends on what you compare. Against the flying, no - an hour is an hour. Against the day, almost always yes: on this route the private saving is not in the air at all but in the terminals, where you arrive close to your departure time instead of long before it and leave the aircraft into a car rather than into a hall. On a 58-minute sector that ground saving is larger than the flight itself, which is the reverse of what people expect.
Can we go over and come back the same day?
Comfortably, and most people do. Under an hour each way leaves a full working day in London with room either side of it. The question we will ask you is whether the aircraft should wait at Luton or be released after the drop: waiting keeps the aircraft and crew yours all day, releasing turns the trip into two one-ways. Which is cheaper depends on how long you are on the ground, so ask us to price both and choose with the figures in front of you.
Is there a border between Ireland and the United Kingdom?
Ireland is in the European Union and the United Kingdom is not, so there are formalities on this sector that a domestic flight would not have. On a private departure they are handled at the business-aviation terminal rather than in a public queue, and we take care of the paperwork as part of the booking. Give us the passenger names as early as you can - that is the part of the process that benefits from notice, not the part that happens on the day.
Why is there no published starting price?
Because on a 58-minute sector a distance-based headline figure would be misleading. The fixed items - crew, ground handling at both ends, and getting the aircraft to Dublin in the first place - do not shrink when the flight is short, so they dominate the bill. The public reference points are hourly rates for the class: EUR 4,600 to 7,300 per hour from LunaJets, from EUR 2,900 per hour from Eurosky as at 19 February 2026, USD 3,750 to 4,200 per hour from Paramount Business Jets as at August 2026. Multiplying any of them by 58 minutes gives a number no operator could fly for. We would rather quote your actual dates.
What aircraft would we be on?
Normally a light jet: a Phenom 300, a Citation CJ2 or a Citation Bravo. 433 km asks nothing of any of them, so the type is chosen by your party size, your luggage and what is genuinely free on your date rather than by the sector. Tell us what you are carrying as well as how many of you there are - on a short route that changes the answer more often than the number of seats does.
When is this route quietest, and how late can we book?
August and late December, because this corridor runs on the working calendar rather than the holiday one. In those weeks a same-day departure is often realistic. In the two business peaks - March to June and September to November - the early morning slots out of Dublin are the contested item, and that is what to book ahead rather than the aircraft. A written quotation follows within 30 minutes of your dates and passenger count, and the desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.
Are there empty legs on this route?
This corridor produces them, because it is short and busy and aircraft rarely finish the day where they started it. The trade is always the same: you take the operator's date and roughly the operator's hour in exchange for the saving. If your travel bends by a day it is worth asking us what is already moving between Ireland and London on your dates before you commit to a full charter.

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Other routes into London

Onward from London

All published routes are listed on the route index. Also useful: the fleet, current empty legs, jet sharing.