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Private Jet Charter London to Corfu

London to Corfu by private jet takes about 3 h 01 non-stop over 2,070 km, out of Luton, Farnborough or Biggin Hill and into Corfu, normally on a midsize cabin. Indicative price from €13 500 for the whole aircraft, one way — the same figure we publish for the route in both directions. Send the dates and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes; the operations desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.

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The forgiving half of a lopsided season. Going out, the traffic is spread across the summer; coming back, it is compressed into a fortnight. Book the return first and this leg looks after itself.

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The route at a glance

Southbound is the straightforward direction of an unbalanced route, and knowing that changes the order in which you should book. The island fills gradually through June and empties in a rush in September, so the outbound flight competes with far fewer people than the homeward one does. The temptation is to leave the going-out leg until last, which is exactly the wrong way round: the date you will struggle to get is the date you come home, and it is far easier to build the holiday around that than to discover it afterwards. The flight itself asks nothing unusual — 2,070 km, a comfortable non-stop for a midsize cabin, no permits, no mountain airfield and no slot problem at either end.

Distance

2,070 km

1,118 nautical miles great-circle, London Luton to Corfu. Athens from the same field is 2,443 km, so Corfu is the nearer end of the Greek group

Flight time

approx. 3 h 01

An estimate from our published-times model, not a measured block time. Flown south-east you generally have the prevailing wind behind you rather than against it

Departure

LTN / FAB / BQH

Luton EGGW, Farnborough EGLF or Biggin Hill EGKB. With a family and a season’s luggage the field to use is simply the one with the shorter drive

Arrival

CFU

Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias LGKR. Straightforward on the way in; it is the end of the season, and the way out, that makes it the part to plan around

Typical aircraft

Midsize

Citation XLS+, Hawker 800XP, Citation Latitude. Three hours is where a stand-up cabin starts to earn its money

Busiest months

Jun – Sep

The Ionian summer. Outbound traffic is spread across it; the northbound peak is concentrated into late August and early September

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

Three departures without a season, one arrival with a sharp one. In London you choose by postcode. At the Corfu end most parties have nothing to choose — but there is something to ask, because not everybody flying to the Ionian is going to the island itself.

If your stay is on the mainland opposite rather than on Corfu, a mainland arrival can take a ferry crossing or a long drive out of the end of the flight. The Greek coast facing the island has airports of its own. It is worth raising before we quote rather than after, because the saving is measured in hours rather than minutes, and at the end of a three-hour flight with children aboard that is the part of the day that counts. Tell us where you will actually be sleeping rather than where the holiday was booked.

Airport	Codes	Role	What to know
London Luton	LTN / EGGW	departure	Where most of this traffic leaves from and the field with the widest choice of aircraft on a given date. North of the city, and the natural departure for anywhere up the M1. Every distance on this page is measured from here.
Farnborough	FAB / EGLF	departure	Business aviation only, no scheduled traffic at all, and the shortest road in from the Thames Valley, Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire.
Biggin Hill	BQH / EGKB	departure	South-east of London and the closest of the three to the City and to south and east London. Minutes from the others in the air; potentially an hour closer at the start of a long day with a loaded car.
Corfu	CFU / LGKR	2,070 km from Luton	The island’s airport and the arrival for almost all of this traffic. Arriving is the easy half: the season’s pressure at this field falls on departures in the last days of August and the first of September, when handling and ramp capacity rather than aircraft supply are what run short. That matters to you on the way home, and it is a reason to settle the return date early.

Airport coordinates, codes and all great-circle distances: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Remarks on seasonal ground capacity at Corfu are qualitative and drawn from operating experience; we quote no movement figures because we have not sourced published ones.

Aircraft for London to Corfu

Three hours is the length at which what you have chartered stops being a route and becomes a cabin. At 2,070 km a midsize jet flies the sector with a full load and nothing traded away, and standing height, a working galley and a separate lavatory are worth most in the third hour rather than the first.

Outbound, the luggage argument is gentler than it is on the way home: what goes south is what you packed rather than what a fortnight on an island accumulates. Where it does bite is at the start of a family holiday, when the pushchair, the golf bag and the diving kit all arrive at the aeroplane together. Tell us what is coming with you when you send the dates and the type we propose will be one that takes it.

Cessna Citation XLS+

Seven to eight passengers in a stand-up cabin with 2.55 cubic metres of hold. The workhorse of this distance and normally the easiest midsize type to place on a summer date.

See the Cessna Citation XLS+ ›

Hawker 800XP

Six to eight seats with a full galley and a separate lavatory, and 5,463 km of range — far more than this sector asks. The type to name if Corfu is one stop in a longer plan rather than the destination.

See the Hawker 800XP ›

Cessna Citation Latitude

A flat-floor cabin with genuine standing height and the most comfortable of the three over three hours. Worth the difference on the outbound flight of a family holiday.

See the Cessna Citation Latitude ›

All three types are on our own fleet pages. A light jet will fly this sector for a small party travelling light. Luggage allowances are on our luggage page.

What it costs

From €13 500 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.

The figure is the one we publish for this route in both directions. The sector is 2,070 km and 3 h 01 whichever way round it is flown, and printing two different numbers would only make the site contradict itself. It is a floor rather than a tariff: the lowest published midsize starting rate we can source, multiplied by the flight time on this page, rounded down.

Season and positioning do the rest, and on the southbound leg they pull in opposite directions. June and July are busy right across the Mediterranean, which lifts the number. Against that, aircraft carrying parties north out of the Ionian need a southbound load and would otherwise fly down with nobody aboard, which lowers it.

The practical consequence is that flexibility is worth more on this route than any negotiation over aircraft type. If any of your dates can move, say which ones when you send the enquiry — that sentence does more for the quotation than anything else you can write in it.

Reference	Basis	Indicative price	Source
Whole aircraft, one way	Our own indicative floor for this route	from approx. 13 500 EUR	Published midsize starting rate below, multiplied by the 3 h 01 flight time, rounded down. Not a quotation
Hourly rate, midsize	Europe, from	from 4,500 EUR per hour	a broker published rate, 19.02.2026
Hourly rate, midsize	Europe	8,400 – 12,900 EUR per hour	a broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026
Hourly rate, midsize	Europe, dollar-quoted	4,700 – 5,500 USD per hour	a broker published range, August 2026
Empty leg	varies	brokers publish discounts of 50 – 75%	broker price pages, retrieved 23.08.2026. Northbound summer traffic leaves aircraft looking for a southbound load

Everything above except our own floor is a third-party published rate, reprinted so that you have something to measure a quotation against — ours included. None of it is our offer and none of it binds anybody. We would rather show a calculation with its workings than print a route price we cannot source. Nothing is a price until Diamond Executive Aero Services has quoted your dates in writing. Call +357 95 119759, 24/7.

When to fly, and when to book early

The Ionian year is short and it is not symmetrical. People travel out over several weeks and come home over several days, which makes the outbound leg the forgiving half of the route and the return the half that has to be booked first.

Period	What happens	What to do
Late May to early July	The season opening. The island is filling rather than full, aircraft are straightforward to place, and quotations sit close to the floor on this page.	One to two weeks, and short notice is realistic. The best window of the summer in which to fly out.
Mid-July to mid-August	Busy across the Mediterranean generally rather than at this field in particular. Aircraft are committed elsewhere, but the Corfu end itself handles arrivals normally.	Three to four weeks. Book the return at the same time — the fortnight you would be coming home in is the tightest of the year.
Late August and September	The island empties. Outbound demand falls away at precisely the point when the departure end is at its most congested, which is an odd combination to book into.	Easy going out and hard coming back. If you are flying down inside this window, settle the homeward date before the outbound one rather than after it.
October to April	Out of season. Leisure traffic disappears almost entirely and the corridor becomes an ordinary, easy one in both directions.	A week is plenty, and almost any request — the timing, the aircraft type, an aeroplane that waits — can simply be met.

Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. Remarks on the shape of the season and on the end-of-season departure squeeze are qualitative and drawn from operating experience rather than from published movement data.

Arriving in the Ionian

Three questions that belong in the enquiry rather than in the week before you fly.

Which island, and which airport

Not every party flying to the Ionian is going to Corfu itself. If the stay is on the mainland opposite, a mainland arrival can save a ferry and a long drive at the end of the flight. Tell us where you will actually be.

Ask about the arrival ›

The aircraft while you are there

In season the constraint at the island end is handling and ramp capacity rather than airspace, so an aeroplane that waits a fortnight is rarely the sensible arrangement. Ask us to price it waiting and returning side by side.

Ask for both prices ›

The flight home

The same 2,070 km, the same 3 h 01 and the same published figure — but a far harder booking in the first week of September. Its own page explains the squeeze.

Corfu to London ›

Questions we get about this route

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

About 3 hours 1 minute non-stop. The great-circle distance from London Luton to Corfu is 2,070 km, or 1,118 nautical miles, and the northbound page carries the same pair of figures. It is an estimate from our published-times model rather than a measured block time. Flown south-east you generally have the prevailing wind behind you, so of the two legs this is the one more likely to come in on the estimate.

Which London airport should we leave from?

The one with the shorter drive, which with a family and a summer’s luggage is not a trivial consideration. Luton carries the widest choice of aircraft on a given date and suits anywhere up the M1; Farnborough takes no scheduled traffic and suits the Thames Valley and the counties west of London; Biggin Hill is nearest to the City and to south and east London. The three are minutes apart in the air and up to an hour apart on the road. Give us the postcode and we will name the field.

Is the flight out harder to book than the flight home?

It is the easier of the two, and by a wide margin in September. The traffic on this route is heavily one-directional and unevenly spread: people go out across several weeks and come home across several days, so the outbound leg competes with far less demand. That is a reason to change the order of work rather than to relax. Settle the date you want to come home on first, book the pair together, and this leg will fit around it.

What size of aircraft does this need?

A midsize cabin is the natural answer. At 2,070 km the sector sits comfortably within midsize range with a full load, and three hours is exactly the length at which standing height and a proper lavatory stop being a luxury. A light jet will fly it for a small party travelling light, and in the shoulder months that is worth asking about. For a family going out at the end of July with a pushchair and a golf bag it is usually the wrong economy.

Should the aircraft wait on the island?

Rarely, and the reason is on the ground rather than in the arithmetic. In season what runs short at Corfu is handling and ramp capacity, not airspace or aircraft in general, so an aeroplane standing there for a fortnight is an awkward arrangement as well as an expensive one. On a short trip of a few nights it can still make sense. Tell us how many nights and we will price it waiting and price it returning, in the same quotation, rather than assume either.

What are the border formalities?

The United Kingdom is outside both the European Union and the Schengen area, so this is a departure to a third country from the British end and a full Schengen entry at the Greek one. At business-aviation fields the checks are carried out beside the aircraft rather than in a hall, and they are quick when the paperwork has gone ahead. Send us the complete passenger list with passport details well before the day rather than at the aircraft steps.

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

Our indicative floor is from EUR 13 500 one way for the whole aircraft, and it is the same figure we publish for the northbound flight, because it is the same sector. It is the lowest published midsize starting rate we can source, multiplied by the 3 h 01 on this page, rounded down. Over three hours the flying makes up most of the bill, so the calculation is a reasonable guide rather than a token one. The season moves it in one direction and the availability of aircraft that would otherwise fly south empty moves it in the other.

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

This is one of the better routes on the website to ask about them. Traffic runs south in June and north in September, which means that for much of the season aircraft are flying one of those directions with nobody aboard — and on a southbound enquiry it is the northbound returns that create the opportunity. Brokers publish discounts of 50 to 75 percent on such flights. 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.