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Private Jet Charter Florence to London

Florence to London by private jet takes about 1 h 59 over 1,242 km, normally Peretola to Luton and normally on a light or midsize jet. Indicative price from €5 700 for the whole aircraft, one way. The decision that shapes this trip is made at the Florence end, not the London one: Peretola is a small, constrained city airport, and whether your aeroplane can use it is settled before the dates are. Send the dates and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes; the operations desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.

Two hours north-west from Tuscany to a London business-aviation field, out of the airport ten minutes from the Duomo when the aircraft suits it and out of Pisa or Bologna when it does not. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs.

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The route at a glance

Almost every route page on this website spends its energy on the arrival. This one spends it on the departure. Florence Peretola is remarkably convenient — it sits on the edge of the city, and the drive in from a morning meeting is measured in minutes. It is also small, hemmed in by terrain, and it accepts a shorter list of aircraft types than most European airports of its traffic level; weather disrupts it more readily than it disrupts a large field. All of that is manageable, and only if it is dealt with in advance. The London end, by contrast, offers a clean choice between three good airports and no complications at all.

Distance

1,242 km

671 nautical miles great-circle, Florence Peretola to London Luton

Flight time

approx. 1 h 59

An estimate from our published-times model rather than a measured block time, and the same figure both ways — though flown north-west you are more often into the prevailing westerlies than with them

Departure

FLR

Florence Peretola LIRQ, on the edge of the city. A short runway, terrain on the approach and a restricted list of accepted types, so the aeroplane is confirmed before the schedule is

Arrival

LTN / FAB / BQH

Luton EGGW, Farnborough EGLF or Biggin Hill EGKB — the choice on this page, and it belongs to your London postcode rather than to the map

Typical aircraft

Light to midsize

Phenom 300, Citation XLS+, Hawker 800XP

Busiest months

Mar – Jun, Sep – Nov

A working calendar sharpened by the Florence trade fairs, with a quiet August and a quiet second half of December

Distance is the great-circle figure between airport coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset. The flight time is an estimate, not a measured block time: it comes from a simple model fitted to the flight times Diamond Executive Aero Services already publishes on this website, and it moves with airway routing, wind, slots and aircraft type. Your quotation carries the real schedule.

Which airports we use

Four airports matter here and only one is in London. Peretola is the one everybody wants and the one with conditions attached; Pisa and Bologna are the answers when those conditions are not met, and neither is a consolation prize. At the London end you are choosing a road journey rather than a flight.

Airport	Codes	Great-circle to London Luton	Suits you if
Florence Peretola	FLR / LIRQ	1,242 km	The default and by a wide margin the most convenient, because it is on the edge of the city rather than an hour outside it. It is also a constrained field: a short runway, terrain close by, and an approach for which crews and aircraft have to be suitable. We confirm that your aeroplane can use Peretola before we quote it, and we say plainly when it cannot.
Pisa	PSA / LIRP	a comparable sector	The principal alternative, west of Florence and a straightforward road connection. A larger airport, fewer restrictions on aircraft type, better resilience in bad weather: the right answer when the party needs a cabin Peretola will not take, or when a diversion would wreck the day. It also serves anyone whose trip starts on the coast or in Lucca.
Bologna	BLQ / LIPE	a comparable sector	North of Florence over the Apennines. Worth naming when the party is assembling in Emilia-Romagna rather than in Tuscany. The road journey is the whole of the decision; the flight is not materially different.
London Luton	LTN / EGGW	arrival	Where most of this traffic lands and the field with the deepest choice of aircraft on any given day. Farnborough takes no scheduled traffic at all and gives the shortest ground time; Biggin Hill is much the best arrival for south and east London, Kent and the City. A few minutes separate the three in the air and an hour can separate them on the road, so give us the postcode and we will name the field.

Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. London Luton movement count: EBAA 2023 via Private Jet Card Comparisons, 4 June 2024. Sector lengths from Pisa and Bologna are described as comparable rather than measured: we have not computed them from the same dataset, and the difference that matters here is the road journey. Constraints at Peretola are described qualitatively; acceptance for a specific type and date is confirmed with the airport.

Aircraft for Florence to London

Two hours is comfortable for a light jet and easy for a midsize, so on distance alone this route would need no conversation about aircraft at all. The departure airport supplies one instead. The types below combine a cabin that suits a two-hour business flight with performance that suits a constrained field; where a party needs something larger, the honest answer is usually a different airport rather than a different aeroplane.

Embraer Phenom 300

Six to eight passengers, 2.27 cubic metres of hold and 3,650 km of range. The commonest type on this corridor and usually the easiest to arrange at short notice, which on a route where the departure field narrows the list is worth a great deal.

See the Embraer Phenom 300 ›

Cessna Citation XLS+

Seven to eight passengers in a stand-up cabin with the largest hold of the three at 2.55 cubic metres. The type to name when the party is travelling with real luggage — a Tuscan fortnight rather than a morning meeting — or when there are eight of you rather than five.

See the Cessna Citation XLS+ ›

Hawker 800XP

Six to eight passengers, full galley, separate lavatory and 5,463 km of range. Well inside itself over 1,242 km, which is exactly why it earns its place when London is the middle stop of a multi-city day rather than the end of one.

See the Hawker 800XP ›

All three types are on our own fleet pages. Larger cabins fly this sector easily but are likelier to need Pisa or Bologna than Peretola; if the party is ten or more, tell us early and we will build the trip around the airport that fits.

What it costs

From €5 700 one way. Indicative starting price for this route, rounded down. The date, the aircraft actually available and airport fees move it — tell us your dates and we confirm within 30 minutes.

No published price for the Florence to London city pair has reached us from a source we would reprint, so the figure above is our own floor rather than a quotation, and the table below carries published hourly references for the cabin class. Better to show the working than invent a number.

What moves the real figure here is not the distance and not usually the date — it is where the aeroplane is when you ask. Aircraft move up and down this corridor constantly, and the gap between a quotation that includes a long positioning flight and one that does not is far larger than the gap between a Tuesday and a Thursday.

The second variable is the airport, and it cuts both ways. Peretola is the convenient departure, but the smaller pool of types that can use it sometimes makes it the dearer one. Pisa and Bologna widen the choice and can produce a better number. We show both when the difference is real, because an hour in a car is a price too.

Reference	Aircraft or cabin	Indicative figure	Source
Hourly rate, light to midsize	Europe	4,600 - 9,700 EUR per hour	Broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026
Hourly rate, light to midsize	Europe, from	from 2,900 - 3,500 EUR per hour	Broker entry-level rate, 19.02.2026
Hourly rate, light to midsize	Europe, guide	3,750 - 4,600 USD per hour	Paramount Business Jets, published hourly guide, August 2026
Empty leg	varies	brokers publish discounts of 50-75%	broker price pages, all retrieved 23.08.2026

These are third-party published hourly references for the cabin class, shown so that you can sanity-check any quotation you receive, ours included. They are not our offer. Our own starting figure is built from the entry-level published rate in the second row and the flight time at the top of this page, rounded down. If you know the return date, ask for both legs together: the aircraft then repositions once instead of twice. 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

Florence runs on two calendars at once and they do not agree. The business calendar peaks in spring and autumn around the trade fairs. The visitor calendar peaks in high summer, when the city is at its fullest and its least comfortable. Departures to London feel both, and the weeks to plan around are the ones where they overlap.

Period	What happens	What to do
January and June	The Florence menswear fairs bring a concentrated trade audience into the city for a few days. Everything that flies in must fly out inside the same short window, which is felt on departures rather than arrivals.	Three to four weeks for a departure in those weeks, and fix the hour before you settle the aircraft type. If your date sits inside a fair, Pisa is worth considering from the outset.
March to June and September to November	The general business pattern, steady rather than spiky, and the best flying weather of the year. Private events add weekend traffic through late spring and early autumn.	One to two weeks is usually enough. Tell us the hour you need to be in London and we will work backwards from it, including the road time to whichever field you are leaving from.
July and August	The city is full of visitors and empty of business. EUROCONTROL's analysis of European business flying identifies a pronounced July-August trough, and Florence follows it closely.	The cheapest and easiest weeks on this pairing, and the ones where genuine short notice works. Heat affects performance out of a constrained field, so an early departure is worth asking for.

Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. July-August trough: EUROCONTROL, "Getting to the Point: Business Aviation in Europe", Trends in Air Traffic vol. 1. London Luton movement count: EBAA 2023. Google search-suggestion evidence: "private jet florence to london", measured 23 August 2026. Trade-fair timing is general knowledge of the Florence calendar rather than a figure we have measured.

Arriving in London

The London end is the easy end. The only decision worth making carefully is which of the three fields puts you closest to where the evening actually happens.

Three fields, one city

Luton, Farnborough and Biggin Hill are minutes apart in the air and an hour apart on the road. The right one is decided by your address, not by the distance from Florence.

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Into the centre by helicopter

All three London business-aviation fields handle helicopters, which is the quickest way from an outer field into the middle of the city. Our own published rates start at 750 EUR per hour on a Eurocopter AS350.

Helicopter charter ›

Or carry on the same day

London is frequently the middle of the day rather than the end of it. Paris is under an hour onward, and it is a published route from London on this site.

London to Paris ›

Questions we get about this route

How long is the flight from Florence to London by private jet?

About 1 hour 59 minutes, and we publish the same figure for the flight back. The great-circle distance from Florence Peretola to London Luton is 1,242 km, or 671 nautical miles. That time is an estimate from our own published-times model rather than a measured block time, and real block time moves with airway routing, wind, slots and aircraft type. Flown north-west you are more often into the prevailing westerlies than with them, so if either leg runs long it is more likely to be this one. Allow roughly fifteen minutes on the ground at each end.

Can we always leave from Florence Peretola?

Not always, and it is much better to know that now than on the morning. Peretola is a small city airport with a short runway and terrain close by, and it accepts a shorter list of aircraft types than most airports handling similar traffic. Weather disrupts it more readily than it does a larger field. We check acceptance for your aeroplane and your date before quoting, and if the answer is no we propose Pisa or Bologna rather than leaving you to discover it later.

Pisa or Bologna — which is the better fallback?

It depends on where your day starts rather than on the flight: the two sectors to London are not meaningfully different in the air. Pisa, west of Florence, is the usual choice — larger, fewer restrictions on type, better resilience in poor weather. Bologna, north over the Apennines, is the better answer if the party is assembling in Emilia-Romagna. Give us the address and we will say which costs you less road time.

How much does a private jet from Florence to London cost?

From EUR 5 700 one way for the whole aircraft as our own floor, on a light to midsize cabin. We have not found a published price for this exact city pair from a source we would reprint, so this page carries hourly references instead: brokers publish 4,600 to 9,700 EUR per hour for light and midsize cabins in Europe, with entry-level rates quoted from 2,900 to 3,500 EUR per hour, and a separate guide quotes 3,750 to 4,600 USD per hour (retrieved 2026). Those are their figures, not our offer. What moves your own number most is where the aircraft starts its day.

What happens at the border when we land in the UK?

This is a full international arrival. Italy is in the European Union and inside the Schengen area; the United Kingdom is outside both, so a flight from Florence arrives from a third country and passport control applies. At a business-aviation field it is carried out beside the aircraft in the terminal rather than in a hall, which is why it takes minutes. It is routine but not automatic: send us the complete passenger list with passport details well before the day and it is settled before you land.

Can we fly to London and back in a day?

Comfortably, and it is one of the commoner shapes here. Two hours each way with an hour of ground time at each end still leaves a full working day in London between a Florence morning and a Florence evening. Give us the hour the meeting starts and the hour it ends and we build the day backwards from those two points.

Are there empty legs, and can I buy a single seat?

This is a dense corridor and repositioning flights are frequent, so empty legs appear regularly in both directions. They are led by dates rather than routes, so tell us which day could move. On flights we open for sharing you can buy a single seat rather than the whole aircraft. Current empty legs and more about jet sharing.

Can I book a last-minute private jet from Florence to London?

Usually yes. Aircraft move along this corridor constantly and the London end has one of the deepest pools in Europe, with Luton alone recording 26,661 movements in 2023. The variable at short notice is Peretola rather than the aeroplane: if the only aircraft free that afternoon cannot use it, Pisa becomes the departure. Call the operations desk on +357 95 119759 — it answers around the clock — and we will tell you straight away what is achievable.