London to Amsterdam is a 354 km hop of about 52 min in the air, London Luton to Amsterdam Schiphol, and a light jet is all it asks for. Indicative price from €4 200 for the whole aircraft, one way. Send the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows inside 30 minutes; the operations desk is staffed at every hour on +357 95 119759.
Fifty-two minutes east from Luton, which makes the arrival, not the flight, the part worth planning. Where you land in the Netherlands and how quickly you clear the border decide your door-to-door time. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs, arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTEA commuter leg into one of Europe's larger scheduled hubs. EBAA counted 26,661 business-aviation movements at London Luton in 2023 and 14,508 at Amsterdam Schiphol, so aircraft and crews sit at both ends and short-notice availability is good. Two things are not automatic. Schiphol is slot coordinated, so the arrival window is booked in advance rather than picked on the morning; and since Brexit landing in the Netherlands means entering both the EU and the Schengen area from outside them, which needs your passenger details earlier than a domestic hop would.
You have three London fields to leave from and the choice there is simply whichever is nearest your front door that morning. The decision worth thinking about is at the other end: Schiphol is a very large scheduled hub before it is anything else, and a business jet lands there among the airlines rather than beside them. Two quieter Dutch fields are available if the hub is not where you actually need to be.
| Airport | Codes | Distance | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Luton | LTN / EGGW | 354 km | Where the sector starts, and the field every distance and time on this page is measured from. The busiest UK business-aviation field, with the widest choice of aircraft on the day. If Luton is the wrong side of London for you, Farnborough (FAB / EGLF) takes no scheduled traffic at all and Biggin Hill (BQH / EGKB) suits south London and Kent; the flight time from any of the three differs by minutes. |
| Amsterdam Schiphol | AMS / EHAM | arrival | Where the sector ends, and the right arrival if you are going into Amsterdam itself or connecting onto a long-haul departure. It is slot coordinated, which means the landing window is agreed in advance rather than chosen on the morning, and a business jet competes for the same runways and stands as the airlines. Border control on arrival is the other thing to plan for: you are entering the EU and the Schengen area from outside both, so we need your passenger details at the time of booking rather than on the day. |
| Rotterdam The Hague | RTM / EHRD | arrival alternative | The arrival to ask about if you are heading for Rotterdam, The Hague or the southern Randstad rather than Amsterdam. Quieter than the hub and often quicker on the ground when Schiphol is congested, which on a trip where the flying takes 52 minutes is not a small consideration. |
| Lelystad | LEY / EHLE | arrival alternative | For anyone whose destination lies east of Amsterdam and who would rather keep clear of hub traffic entirely. Tell us your dates and we will confirm what can actually be arranged there on them rather than guess in advance. |
Codes and coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026; the distance is great-circle.
At 354 km this is a light jet sector and nothing more. The aeroplane is airborne for roughly 52 minutes, so cabin size is a comfort preference rather than a range decision, and no type on this page will struggle with the distance. What decides the quotation is which operator can hold a Schiphol arrival slot on your date and where the aircraft is standing that morning.
The default on this sector, and the easiest to place at Schiphol when stands are tight. Quick to arrange out of any of the three London fields and economical over 354 km.
See the Phenom 300 ›A smaller and cheaper light jet, sized for two or three people going over for a day of meetings and coming back the same evening. Briefcases and hand luggage rather than a week of suitcases.
See the Citation CJ2 ›The value choice 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 few minutes and very little money.
See the Citation Bravo ›Each of the three has its own page in our fleet. A larger cabin on this sector is perfectly arrangeable - say so and we will price it.
From €4 200 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 one-way price for London to Amsterdam has reached us from a source we would stand behind, so read €4 200 as a floor rather than a quotation. What we can do is set out honestly what moves the number, because on a leg this short the flying is the smallest part of it.
The hourly rate you find online is the wrong tool for this route. Brokers publish a European light jet range of EUR 4,600 to 7,300 per hour and others quote from EUR 2,900 per hour, both retrieved in 2026, but those are rates for a class of aircraft rather than prices for a city pair. Multiply either by 52 minutes and you arrive at a figure no operator will honour: a sector this short is priced on the minimum charge, the crew day and the positioning flight, not on the clock.
Three things move the number in practice. The first is where a suitable aircraft is standing on the morning you want to leave London. The second is the shape of the trip: a same-day return is often cheaper per leg than a one-way, because the aircraft is not left parked on the wrong side of the North Sea waiting for a job home. The third is handling and border charges at both ends, which on a leg of 52 minutes are a visible share of the bill rather than a rounding error. Send us the dates and we will price against them.
Out of London 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.
| 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, and the early departures out of the London fields are the first to go. | A week ahead for a morning departure. Tell us the hour your meeting in Amsterdam starts rather than the hour you would like to leave Luton, and we will work the slot backwards from it. |
| July to August | Corporate travel thins out across northern Europe and the fleet drifts south towards the Mediterranean, so fewer aircraft are sitting at the London fields waiting for a job. | Good value if the trip is business rather than leisure, but confirm earlier than you would in spring: the aircraft may have to be brought to London to collect you. |
| September to November | The second business peak. Autumn conference season and year-end deal work compete for the same midweek morning windows in both directions. | Two weeks out for a fixed date. Ask about a same-day return at the same time - it is usually the cheaper shape of trip on this pairing. |
| Late December | Quiet. Offices close on both sides of the North Sea and the corporate traffic stops almost completely. | The best weeks of the year to ask us about an empty leg between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. |
For a good number of parties Amsterdam is a stop rather than the destination, and Schiphol is well placed for a second leg. If the trip carries on, tell us at the outset - the aircraft that brings you here can usually stay with you.
The long leg out of the Netherlands, and a common second sector when Amsterdam is a working stop on the way east rather than the end of the trip.
Amsterdam to Dubai ›South to the Cote d'Azur once the meetings are finished. A route we publish, and the one most often asked for when a Thursday in Amsterdam turns into a weekend somewhere warmer.
Amsterdam to Nice ›Another short business hop, and an easy one to add to the same booking. Two cities in a day is a shape we quote often on this corridor.
Amsterdam to Zurich ›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.