London to Jeddah is a 4,765 km sector of about 6 h 25 in the air, London Luton to King Abdulaziz International, and a long-range jet covers it non-stop with the cabin full. The indicative figure of €54 500 for the whole aircraft, one way, is our floor for this city pair and we carry the same one 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.
South-east out of London, down the length of Europe and across the eastern Mediterranean to the Red Sea coast, in a single sector and without anybody leaving luggage behind. Six and a quarter hours in which the departure hour you choose decides almost everything else about the day.
REQUEST A QUOTEOf the Arabian cities we publish, Jeddah is the second nearest to London - the Red Sea coast sits a few hundred kilometres closer to Europe than the Gulf does, and the airport is effectively at sea level rather than up on a plateau. That makes this the gentler of our long southbound sectors, and it moves the interesting questions off the aeroplane and onto the clock. Leaving in the morning and leaving in the evening produce two entirely different arrivals, and the difference is not only about your own sleep.
Three possible departures and one arrival, which is the opposite of the way most long-haul pages read. At this range the three London fields are separated by two or three minutes in the air and by as much as an hour of driving, so the only part of the airport question with real money in it is the drive to the aircraft on the morning you leave.
| Airport | Codes | Role on this route | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Luton | LTN / EGGW | departure, default | Where most long-haul business traffic out of London starts, and the field with the deepest choice of long-range aircraft in the country on any given day - 26,661 business-aviation movements in 2023, among the busiest in Europe. Every distance and time on this page is measured from Luton. |
| Farnborough | FAB / EGLF | departure, south-west | No scheduled traffic whatever and about the shortest walk from car to aircraft in Britain, which counts for more at the start of a six-hour day than it does on a short hop. It suits west London, the Thames Valley, Surrey and anyone driving in from the south coast. |
| London Biggin Hill | BQH / EGKB | departure, south-east | South-east of the city and the right answer for the City, Canary Wharf, south London and Kent. Against Luton the difference on a 4,765 km sector is a couple of minutes of flying and nothing else worth weighing. |
| Jeddah King Abdulaziz International | JED / OEJN | arrival | The principal airport of the Red Sea coast and one of the largest in the region, north of the city, with handling for business aviation arranged separately from the scheduled terminals. It is the field the figures here are measured to. Which facility your aircraft uses, and how the ground side runs on your particular day, is settled with the handler for your dates rather than assumed from a web page. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Luton movement count: EBAA 2023 via Private Jet Card Comparisons, 4 June 2024. Jeddah does not appear in the EBAA dataset, which counts European airports only.
Nearly five thousand kilometres with a full cabin is long-range work, and the three types below cross it without anybody being asked to travel light so that the aeroplane can carry fuel. Over six hours the cabin counts for more than the cruise speed: twenty minutes of difference in the air is worth less than being able to sleep, or to hold a meeting, for the other six.
Fourteen to sixteen passengers across three cabin zones, and far more range than this sector asks for. The surplus turns into freedom about the departure hour and the payload rather than into a shorter flight.
See the Gulfstream G550 ›Thirteen to sixteen passengers in one of the widest cabins of its generation. On a trip put together in days rather than weeks it is frequently the type that can actually be at a London field on your morning.
See the Bombardier Global 5000 ›Twelve to sixteen passengers, three engines and a quiet back end. The one to ask for when the party is smaller than the seat count and the intention is to arrive rested rather than briefed.
See the Dassault Falcon 7X ›All three have their own pages in our fleet. A super-midsize cabin can be pushed to reach Jeddah from London, but the trade becomes passengers or luggage against fuel - a poor bargain over six and a half hours. Luggage limits by aircraft type are set out separately.
From €54 500 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 our floor for the London and Jeddah city pair, and it is the same one we publish for the northbound page: the kilometres and the hours do not change when you turn the sector round, so the arithmetic that produced the number does not change either. It is calculated and not quoted - no whole-aircraft route price for this pairing has reached us from a source we would reprint, so we applied the bottom of the published European long-range hourly rate to the flight time above and rounded down.
Over six hours of flying the aeroplane's own hourly cost is very nearly the whole bill. Landing and handling fees, which can dominate a short European hop, become rounding here, and what takes their place is positioning. On a southbound departure that is the easier half of the question: Luton carries the deepest choice of long-range aircraft in the country on any given day, so a suitable cabin is more often at the departure end here than it is on the route back. The harder half is what the aeroplane does after it has put you down on the Red Sea coast.
Which makes the shape of the trip the second lever, and the bigger one. A single one-way south is the most expensive way to buy this route, because the aircraft and its crew still have to go somewhere afterwards and that sector lands in somebody's quotation. If the return date exists, send it in the first message. On a stay of a few days, keeping the aeroplane with you frequently beats sending it home and bringing it back, and we will quote it both ways so that you can see the difference rather than take our word for it.
| Reference | Basis | Indicative figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, one way | Our own indicative floor for this city pair, published the same in both directions | from €54 500 | Calculated from the published long-range hourly rate below and the 6 h 25 flight time on this page, rounded down. Not a quotation |
| Hourly rate, long-range | Europe, from | from 8,500 EUR per hour | A broker published entry rate, 19.02.2026. This is the figure the calculation above uses |
| Hourly rate, long-range | Europe | 11,000 - 20,100 EUR per hour | A broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Hourly rate, long-range | Europe, dollar-quoted | 12,000 - 17,000 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. Our own published empty-leg table currently carries Mediterranean sectors rather than Red Sea ones |
Like the other Arabian pairings on this website, this corridor runs two seasons that point in opposite directions - and southbound out of London you are on the quieter side of both of them. The regional winter is the business season and traffic moves both ways inside the same week; the European summer sends the weight of traffic north, which leaves aircraft in Europe that have to get back down again.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| November to March | The comfortable months on the Red Sea coast and the heaviest ones for business travel. Demand is steady rather than spiky, trips are short, and a return inside the same week is the common shape. | Two to three weeks, and settle the return at the same time as the outbound. In this window the aircraft that suits you is often committed to somebody else the following day. |
| June to August | The reverse season. The weight of traffic runs towards Europe, which is the direction you are not flying - so the southbound leg in these weeks is frequently the half of somebody else's trip that has to be flown anyway. | The weeks to ask what is repositioning south out of Europe. If your dates will bend by a day, this is where that flexibility is worth the most on this corridor. |
| April, May, September and October | The shoulders, and the easiest flying of the year in both directions - no seasonal crush at either end, and the widest choice of aircraft on any given date. | One to two weeks. If the dates can move at all, this is where the same trip costs least. |
| Ramadan and the two Eid periods | The working calendar at the Jeddah end changes for these weeks and the travel pattern changes with it, in ways that differ from year to year rather than following a fixed rule. | Ask us once you have the dates rather than assuming either way. We check what is actually happening in your week instead of applying a general rule to it. |
Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. Luton movement count: EBAA 2023. Ramadan and Eid dates move each year against the Gregorian calendar, which is why this page gives none.
Most parties on this sector are coming back, and the return is where the money on this route is actually decided. It is worth settling while we are quoting the outbound rather than a week later.
Same 4,765 km, same published flight time, and the same floor figure. What differs is the positioning: northbound, the aircraft is more often the one that has to be brought in.
Jeddah to London ›The Mediterranean approach to the same city, and a route we publish. Relevant if the trip starts in Cyprus or picks somebody up on the way south.
Larnaca to Jeddah ›What can and cannot be arranged in a day or two on a sector of this length, and what actually sets the earliest realistic departure.
Short-notice charter ›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, luggage limits, what a charter price includes.