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Private Jet Charter London to Faro

London to Faro by private jet takes about 2 h 38 over 1,757 km, non-stop from whichever of Luton, Farnborough and Biggin Hill suits the party into the Algarve's only airport. Normally a midsize cabin, and normally chosen by the hold rather than by the seats: this is a route people fly with golf bags, pushchairs and a fortnight's luggage. Indicative price from €11 800 for the whole aircraft one way — the same figure we publish for this pairing flown northbound. 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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Two and a half hours south-west from a London business-aviation field to the coast, with no clock to reset at the other end. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs.

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The route at a glance

Most of what is written about this corridor is written from the Algarve's point of view. Seen from London it looks different in two useful ways. First, the departure is a genuine choice: three business-aviation fields, and on a family departure the right one is usually the one the whole party can reach without an early-morning crawl round the M25. Second, mainland Portugal keeps the same clock as the United Kingdom, so this is a rare southbound holiday flight that costs you nothing in adjustment — you leave after breakfast and you are on the coast for lunch at the same hour your watch already says.

Distance

1,757 km

949 nautical miles great-circle, London Luton to Faro

Flight time

approx. 2 h 38

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

Departure

LTN / FAB / BQH

Luton EGGW, Farnborough EGLF or Biggin Hill EGKB. On a family departure the field is chosen by where the party assembles, not by the map

Arrival

FAO

Faro LPFR, the only airport on the Algarve, with business traffic handled away from the scheduled terminal. Nowhere on the coast is a long drive from it

Typical aircraft

Midsize

Citation XLS+, Hawker 800XP, Citation Latitude — and on this direction the hold usually decides between them

Time difference

none

Mainland Portugal keeps the same clock as the United Kingdom through the year, so nothing about the day needs recalculating on arrival

Distance is the great-circle figure between airport coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. The flight time is an estimate rather than a measured block time: t = 0.414 h + great-circle km / 793 km/h, a model fitted to the route and time pairs Diamond Executive Aero Services already publishes on this website. Real block time moves with airway routing, wind, slots and aircraft type. Your quotation carries the real schedule.

Which airports we use

Three fields to leave from and one to land at, which puts the whole airport decision at the London end. It is worth taking seriously on a departure with children or a large party: the three fields are minutes apart in the air and can be an hour apart on the road, and that hour is spent before anyone has had a coffee.

Field	Codes	Role on this route	What decides it
London Luton	LTN / EGGW	The usual departure	About fifty kilometres north of central London, open at every hour and with the deepest choice of aircraft on any given day. The natural field if the party is coming from the north or west, and the easiest one on which to arrange a departure at short notice or at an awkward hour.
Farnborough	FAB / EGLF	Shortest ground time	South-west of London, business aviation only and with no scheduled traffic at all, so the time between car and cabin is the shortest of the three — which is the part that matters most with a family. Operating hours are restricted and movements capped, so an early Saturday departure is confirmed rather than assumed. The natural field for Surrey, Hampshire and the Thames Valley.
London Biggin Hill	BQH / EGKB	South and east London	The shortest road journey from the City, Kent and south London, and helicopter-connected to the centre. Operating hours are limited here too, which rarely obstructs a mid-morning holiday departure.
Faro	FAO / LPFR	Arrival	One airport for the entire Algarve, and a convenient one: the coast is long but narrow, so nowhere from Sagres to the Spanish border is a serious drive. Business traffic is handled away from the scheduled terminal, which is what keeps the arrival short in the weeks when the terminal itself is not.

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 Farnborough and Biggin Hill are described as comparable rather than measured, because we have not computed them from the same dataset and the difference is not what decides the choice. Operating-hour and movement restrictions at Farnborough and Biggin Hill are published aerodrome conditions and change from time to time.

Aircraft for London to Faro

A light jet has the range for 1,757 km without difficulty, and we still put most parties on a midsize cabin. Southbound the reason is usually not the clock but the boot: people leaving London for the Algarve are going for a week or a fortnight rather than for a meeting, and the luggage that implies fills a small hold long before the passengers fill the seats. Tell us what is travelling and we will size the aeroplane to it.

Cessna Citation XLS+

Seven to eight passengers, a stand-up cabin and 2.55 cubic metres of hold — the largest of the three. The type we propose first on a holiday departure, because golf bags are bulky rather than heavy and it is the hold that runs out first.

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Hawker 800XP

Six to eight passengers, full galley and a separate lavatory, with 5,463 km of range that makes this sector a short hop. Worth naming when the party is travelling with equipment as well as suitcases, or when Faro is one stop of a longer itinerary.

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Cessna Citation Latitude

A newer midsize cabin, flat floor and the quietest interior of the three. The one to ask for when there are young children on board and two and a half hours of quiet is worth paying for.

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All three types are on our own fleet pages. Light jets fly this sector perfectly well and cost less: say so if the priority is the number rather than the cabin and we will quote both. Count the golf bags and the pushchairs when you count the passengers — on this direction the hold is usually the binding constraint.

What it costs

From €11 800 one way, whole aircraft. This is the same benchmark we publish for the pairing flown from Faro, and deliberately so: the two airports, the aeroplane and the 2 h 38 are identical whichever way round you fly them, and a different starting figure for each direction would mean one of the two was wrong.

It is our own floor rather than a quotation. No published price for this city pair has reached us from a source we would be willing to reprint, so the table below carries hourly references for the cabin class, and the figure above is built from the entry-level rate in it and the flight time at the top of this page, rounded down.

Southbound, the honest thing to say is that the traffic imbalance which helps a northbound passenger works against you. A great deal of what flies into the Algarve comes from the United Kingdom, so aircraft are regularly stranded in southern Portugal wanting to come home, and it is the homeward leg that gets discounted. Going out, you are more often the reason the aeroplane makes the trip at all.

Which points at where the saving actually is on this direction: the return. Quote both legs together and the aircraft repositions once instead of twice, and on a holiday where the dates are already fixed by the villa or the school term there is rarely a reason not to. If only one leg is flexible, make it the way home — that is the leg on which someone else's empty aeroplane might be going your way.

Reference	Aircraft or cabin	Indicative figure	Source
Whole aircraft, this pairing	London and Faro, either direction	from €11 800	Our own floor, not a quotation: the entry-level published rate below applied to 2 h 38, rounded down
Hourly rate, midsize	Europe	8,400 - 12,900 EUR per hour	Broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026
Hourly rate, midsize	Europe, from	from 4,500 EUR per hour	Broker entry-level rate, 19.02.2026
Hourly rate, midsize	Europe, guide	4,700 - 5,500 USD per hour	Paramount Business Jets, published hourly guide, August 2026
Empty leg	the aircraft's date, not yours	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, ours included. They are not our offer. 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

The Algarve runs a beach calendar and a golf calendar and they barely overlap. Departures out of London feel both, but with a shape of their own: outbound traffic concentrates at the front of a holiday week, so the hard dates here are the Fridays and Saturdays that begin a let rather than the Sundays that end one.

Period	What happens	What to do
June to September	The summer peak, and family traffic dominates it. Outbound demand clusters on the days that open a rental week and on the first days of the school holidays, and the middle of the day is the busiest part of it at both ends.	Two to four weeks for a weekend departure in high summer, one to two midweek. Book the outbound the day the villa is booked, not the week before you travel, and ask for an early departure if you want the quiet end of the day at Faro.
March to May and September to November	The golf shoulder and the most pleasant time to be there. The heat has gone, the courses are at their best and the traffic is steady rather than spiky.	One to two weeks is usually enough. This is also the stretch in which a larger cabin is most likely to be available for close to the price of a smaller one — useful when the hold is the constraint.
December to February	The quiet months, broken only by the Christmas and New Year fortnight, which is busy in both directions and behaves like high summer.	Short notice generally works outside the festive fortnight. For late December, book as early as you would for August.

Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. The general European July-August trough described by EUROCONTROL in "Getting to the Point: Business Aviation in Europe", Trends in Air Traffic vol. 1, applies to business traffic and runs opposite to leisure demand such as this. Google search-suggestion evidence: "private jet faro to london" and "private jet luton to faro", measured 23 August 2026. The description of the Algarve golf calendar is general knowledge of the destination rather than a figure we have measured.

Arriving in the Algarve

One airport, no field to choose and no clock to change. What is left is the paperwork and the car.

One airport, the whole coast

Faro serves everything from Sagres to the Spanish border, and because the Algarve is long but narrow, none of it is a serious drive. Tell us the resort or the address and the transfer is arranged with the flight rather than after it.

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The border, on the way out and the way in

The United Kingdom is outside the European Union and the Schengen area; Portugal is inside both. So this is a third-country departure and a third-country arrival, handled beside the aircraft at a business-aviation terminal rather than in a hall. Send the full passenger list with passport details well before the day.

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Lisbon or Porto in the same week

Plenty of Portuguese trips take in more than the coast. Both cities are published routes from London on this site, which makes a two-city week one booking rather than three.

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Questions we get about this route

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

About 2 hours 38 minutes non-stop, and the same figure we publish for the flight home. The great-circle distance from London Luton to Faro is 1,757 km, or 949 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 south-west you are more often into the prevailing westerlies than with them. Allow roughly fifteen minutes on the ground at each end.

Which London airport should we leave from?

Whichever the party can reach most easily, which on a family departure is usually the deciding factor and almost never the map. Luton suits the north and west of London and is open at every hour. Farnborough gives the shortest ground time of the three and suits Surrey, Hampshire and the Thames Valley. Biggin Hill is the shortest road journey from the City, Kent and south London. Send the postcode and the hour and we will name the field rather than hand you a list.

Is there a time difference between London and the Algarve?

No. Mainland Portugal keeps the same clock as the United Kingdom throughout the year, including the summer change, so nothing about the day needs recalculating when you land. It is one of the reasons this is an easy trip with children: two and a half hours in the air, lunch at the hour your watch already says, and no evening lost to an adjustment.

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

From EUR 11 800 one way for the whole aircraft as our own floor, on a midsize cabin, and it is the same benchmark we publish for the pairing flown northbound — identical airports, identical aeroplane, identical hours. We have not found a published price for this city pair from a source we would reprint, so the page carries hourly references instead: brokers publish 8,400 to 12,900 EUR per hour for midsize cabins in Europe, with entry-level rates from 4,500 EUR per hour and a separate guide quoting 4,700 to 5,500 USD per hour (retrieved 2026). Those are their figures, not our offer.

We are travelling with golf clubs and a lot of luggage. Does that change the aircraft?

Frequently, and on this direction it is the single commonest reason a party ends up in a larger cabin than the head count alone would suggest. Golf bags are long and awkward rather than heavy, and a fortnight's luggage for a family fills a small hold quickly. Count the bags when you count the people and we will size the aeroplane to the luggage. It is far easier to settle at the quotation stage than at the aircraft steps.

What are the border formalities?

This is a full international flight in both directions. The United Kingdom is outside the European Union and the Schengen area; Portugal is inside both, so the outbound leg is a third-country departure and the arrival at Faro is a third-country arrival. At a business-aviation terminal it is handled beside the aircraft rather than in a hall, which is why it takes minutes. Send the complete passenger list with passport details well before the day and it is settled before you leave.

Are there empty legs going out to the Algarve?

They exist, but be aware of which way the corridor leans. Because so much of the Algarve's private traffic originates in the United Kingdom, the aircraft needing a cheap flight are more often the ones coming home than the ones going out. The practical advice on a southbound trip is therefore to quote the return with the outbound so the aeroplane repositions once, and to keep the homeward date flexible if either date can move. Tell us which day could shift and by how much.

Can we book at short notice?

Usually, and more easily than you would expect for a leisure destination, because the London end holds one of the deepest pools of business aircraft in Europe — Luton alone recorded 26,661 business-aviation movements in 2023. The harder dates are the summer weekends that open a holiday week and the fortnight around Christmas and New Year. Call the operations desk on +357 95 119759, which answers around the clock, and we will tell you straight away whether your timing works rather than promise and check afterwards.