London to Florence by private jet takes about 1 h 59 over 1,242 km, normally from Luton, Farnborough or Biggin Hill into Peretola, on a light or midsize cabin. The thing worth understanding before the dates are fixed is that Peretola is the constrained end of this route and on this direction it is your arrival: a small city airport with a short runway, terrain on the approach and a restricted list of accepted types. That makes the aeroplane a decision rather than a detail, and it makes a weather alternate something to agree in advance rather than discover in the air. Indicative price from €5 700 for the whole aircraft one way, the same figure we publish for the leg back. Written quotation within 30 minutes; +357 95 119759 answers at any hour.
Two hours south-east from a London business-aviation field to an airport ten minutes from the Duomo — when the aeroplane and the weather allow it, and to Pisa or Bologna when they do not. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs.
REQUEST A QUOTEA constrained airport is a manageable thing at the start of a flight and a more awkward one at the end of it. Leaving Florence, if Peretola will not take your aeroplane you simply leave from Pisa instead and the only cost is a drive you knew about when you booked. Arriving into Florence, the same constraint arrives with you: the type has to be accepted before you depart, and if the weather closes in while you are airborne the alternate is a real place you will actually land at, an hour of Tuscan motorway from where you meant to be. None of that is difficult. All of it is much cheaper to settle before the day than during it, which is the whole argument of this page.
Three fields in London and three in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, and the two ends behave completely differently. At the London end you are choosing a road journey before you fly. At the Italian end you are choosing an airport that has to accept your aeroplane on the day, which is a question with a yes or a no in it.
| Airport | Codes | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Luton | LTN / EGGW | The usual departure | Around fifty kilometres north of central London, open at every hour and with the widest choice of aircraft on any given day — which on a route where the arrival airport narrows the list of usable types is worth more than it sounds. The natural field for the north and west of London. |
| Farnborough | FAB / EGLF | Shortest ground time | South-west of London and business aviation only, so the time between car and cabin is the shortest of the three. Operating hours are restricted and movements capped, so a very early departure is confirmed rather than assumed. Suits Surrey, Hampshire and the Thames Valley. |
| London Biggin Hill | BQH / EGKB | The City and the south-east | Shortest road journey from the City, Canary Wharf, Kent and south London, with a helicopter connection into the centre. Operating hours are limited, which rarely obstructs a morning departure into Italy. |
| Florence Peretola | FLR / LIRQ | The arrival everyone wants | On the edge of the city, so the drive in is measured in minutes rather than in an hour. It is also small, hemmed in by terrain and accepting of a shorter list of types than most airports of its traffic level, and it is disrupted by weather more readily than a large field. We confirm that your aeroplane can use it before we quote, and we say plainly when it cannot. |
| Pisa | PSA / LIRP | The principal alternate | West of Florence, larger, fewer restrictions on type and better resilience in poor weather. The right arrival when the party needs a cabin Peretola will not take, and the sensible alternate to file when a diversion would otherwise wreck the evening. It also serves anyone whose trip is really on the coast or in Lucca. |
| Bologna | BLQ / LIPE | North over the Apennines | Worth naming when the destination is Emilia-Romagna rather than Tuscany, or when the party is heading north after landing. The flight is not materially different; the road journey is the whole of the decision. |
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 to Pisa and Bologna are described as comparable rather than measured: we have not computed them from the same dataset, and the difference that matters is the road journey. Operating-hour and movement restrictions at Farnborough and Biggin Hill are published aerodrome conditions and change from time to time.
Two hours is easy for a light cabin and easier for a midsize, so on distance alone there would be nothing to discuss. The arrival airport supplies the discussion instead. The types below pair a cabin that suits a two-hour flight with the performance a constrained field wants, and they are the reason most London parties land at Peretola rather than at Pisa. Where a group genuinely needs something larger, the honest answer is a different airport, not a different aeroplane.
Six to eight passengers, 2.27 cubic metres of hold and 3,650 km of range. The commonest type on this corridor and generally the easiest to arrange at short notice — which matters a great deal when the arrival airport has already shortened the list.
See the Embraer Phenom 300 ›Seven to eight passengers in a stand-up cabin with the largest hold of the three at 2.55 cubic metres. The one to name when there are eight of you, or when the luggage belongs to a Tuscan fortnight rather than to a day of meetings.
See the Cessna Citation XLS+ ›Six to eight passengers, full galley, separate lavatory and 5,463 km of range — well inside itself over 1,242 km. It earns its place when Florence is one stop of a multi-city itinerary rather than the destination.
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 rather than around the aeroplane you first asked for.
From €5 700 one way, whole aircraft. The same benchmark we publish for this pairing flown from Florence, and deliberately so: the airports, the cabin class and the 1 h 59 do not change with the direction, so a different starting figure each way would simply mean one of them 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 reprint, so the table below carries hourly references for the cabin class, and the figure above is the entry-level rate in it applied to the flight time at the top of this page, rounded down. Better to show the working than to invent a number.
Two things move your actual figure, and the first is the ordinary one: where the aeroplane is when you ask. Aircraft run up and down this corridor constantly, and the gap between a quotation carrying a long positioning flight and one that does not is far wider than the gap between a Tuesday and a Thursday.
The second is particular to this direction and is worth a sentence of its own. Because Peretola accepts a shorter list of types, the pool of aeroplanes that can actually deliver you there is smaller than the pool that could fly the sector — and a smaller pool is a dearer one. Pisa reopens the whole fleet. When the difference is real we will show you both, with the road time priced honestly alongside it, because an hour in a car at the end of a day is a cost even when it does not appear on an invoice.
| Reference | Aircraft or cabin | Indicative figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this pairing | London and Florence, either direction | from €5 700 | Our own floor, not a quotation: the entry-level published rate below applied to 1 h 59, rounded down |
| 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 | the aircraft's date, not yours | brokers publish discounts of 50-75% | broker price pages, all retrieved 23.08.2026 |
Florence keeps a business calendar and a visitor calendar that disagree with each other, and an arrival feels them differently from a departure. Where a Florence departure is squeezed by everybody trying to leave at once after a fair, a London arrival is squeezed earlier — by handling and parking at a small airport during the few days when everyone is trying to get in.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| January and June | The Florence menswear fairs pull a concentrated trade audience into the city for a few days. Arriving into a small field inside that window is the constrained part, not the flying. | Three to four weeks for an arrival in those weeks. Settle the aeroplane type early, since the usable list is already short, and treat Pisa as a serious option rather than a fallback if the dates are immovable. |
| March to June and September to November | The general business pattern, steady rather than spiky, with the best flying weather of the year and the lowest chance of a weather diversion at the Italian end. Private events add weekend traffic through late spring and early autumn. | One to two weeks is usually enough. Give us the hour you need to be in the city and we will work backwards from it, including the road time from whichever London field you leave. |
| 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 at a constrained field, so an arrival outside the middle of the day is worth asking for. |
| Late autumn and winter | Quiet, and the stretch in which weather at Peretola is likeliest to send an arriving aircraft somewhere else. | Agree the alternate when you book rather than on the day, and know which of Pisa and Bologna you would rather land at. A decision made calmly in advance costs nothing; the same decision made in the air costs an evening. |
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.
The London end is settled by a postcode. The Italian end is settled by three questions, and all three are better answered before you take off.
Not every type is accepted, and the answer belongs to the airport rather than to us. We confirm it for your aircraft and your date before quoting, and when the answer is no we say so and propose Pisa instead of letting you find out later.
Ask before you book ›Peretola is disrupted more readily than a large field. Choose the alternate deliberately — Pisa for the coast and for resilience, Bologna if the party is heading north — so that a diversion becomes a longer drive rather than a ruined day.
Florence to London ›Italy runs an hour ahead of London, so a morning departure still leaves most of the day. If Florence is one stop of several, Milan, Rome and Venice are all published routes from London on this site.
London to Milan ›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.