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Private Jet Charter London to Naples

London to Naples is 1,654 km south-east, about 2 h 30 min in the air, London Luton to Naples Capodichino, normally on a midsize jet. We publish no fixed starting price for this route, because between May and October the week you choose moves it more than anything else does: send us the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes, at any hour, on +357 95 119759.

South-east to the Bay of Naples in about 2 h 30 on a midsize jet. Four months of the year carry most of the traffic on this pairing, and in those months the useful conversation is about the onward leg to the coast as much as about the flight itself. Arranged 24/7.

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The route at a glance

1,654 km south-east, and a route with a season rather than a timetable. From June to September the Bay of Naples is where a large part of northern Europe wants to be, with May and October as the shoulders either side. Outside those months the same sector is one of the quieter things we fly - the aircraft is easy, the price is calmer, and almost nothing about the day is decided by other people's plans.

Distance

1,654 km

893 nautical miles great-circle, London Luton to Naples Capodichino; the track flown down the continent and across the Alps runs longer than the straight line

Flight time

approx. 2 h 30 min

An estimate from a model fitted to our own published times, not a measured block time. In the summer weeks it is the ground at either end, not the air, that stretches

Departure

LTN

London Luton - the field the distance and time on this page are calculated to, and the usual starting point for a party leaving from London with summer luggage

Arrival

NAP

Naples Capodichino - close in to the city, and the arrival for Capri, Sorrento, Positano and the whole Amalfi coast

Typical aircraft

Midsize jet

Citation XLS+, Hawker 800XP, Citation Latitude - midsize cabins, and going south in July the hold matters as much as the seats

Busiest months

Jun - Sep

The Mediterranean summer, with May and October as the shoulder months on either side of it

Distance is the great-circle figure between airport coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Flight time is an estimate and 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 against those published times its largest deviation is 14 minutes. It will move with routing, wind, slots and aircraft type. Your quotation carries the real schedule.

Which airports we use

Naples Capodichino sits close to the city, which is the reason most parties flying south choose it over anything further away: what you save on this route is not only the flight, it is the drive at the end of it. At the London end there is a real choice, and it is worth making it on the morning you actually have rather than out of habit.

Airport	Codes	Distance	Suits you if
London Luton	LTN	1,654 km	Your departure as quoted here, and the field all the distances and times on this page are calculated to. It suits the City and the north of London, and it is where the widest daily choice of midsize aircraft around London tends to be standing.
Farnborough	FAB	departure alternative	The same route with a different beginning. If your morning starts in west London, Surrey or Hampshire, Farnborough usually gets you into the air sooner, and we fly this sector from there as well. Tell us where you will be, not which airport you normally use.
Naples Capodichino	NAP	arrival	Where the sector ends, and close enough to the city that the transfer is a short one. It is also the arrival for Sorrento, Positano and the Amalfi coast, and the point at which most parties change to a car, a boat or a helicopter for the last part of the journey - which is why it is worth telling us the final address rather than only the airport.

Airport codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distance calculated great-circle.

Aircraft for London to Naples

At 1,654 km this is a midsize sector, and about 2 h 30 in the air is long enough that the cabin stops being a detail. In the summer months the choice is usually settled by the luggage rather than by the headcount: a family going down for a fortnight on the coast packs like a family going down for a fortnight.

Cessna Citation XLS+

The stand-up midsize cabin and the common answer for a family or a small group heading south for a week. Two and a half hours is long enough for the extra cabin height to be worth having.

See the Citation XLS+ ›

Hawker 800XP

The step up when the bags rather than the party are the problem: a full galley, a separate lavatory and the hold volume for a long stay on the coast. That is a question you answer on the way out, not on the way home.

See the Hawker 800XP ›

Cessna Citation Latitude

The newest midsize of the three, with a flat floor and a quiet cabin. Worth asking for when there are children aboard or when the flight south is the start of the holiday rather than the last chore before it.

See the Citation Latitude ›

All three types are on our own fleet pages. Heavier cabins can be arranged on this sector too.

What it costs

There is no honest single figure for London to Naples, so we do not print one. On a route with a four-month season, the identical 1,654 km sector flown in the second week of August and flown in the second week of November is not the same product, and a price on a web page cannot tell you which one you are buying.

What is published, and what we are happy to quote to you as a reference, are hourly rates for the aircraft class. Brokers publish EUR 8,400 to 12,900 per hour for European midsize jets (LunaJets, Europe, undated), others quote from EUR 4,500 per hour (Eurosky, 19.02.2026) and others publish USD 4,700 to 5,500 per hour (Paramount Business Jets, August 2026). Use them to sanity-check a quotation, including ours. Do not use them to build one: multiplying any of those rates by 2 h 30 leaves out the crew day, the landing and handling at both ends, and the cost of getting the aircraft to London before it can take you anywhere.

In the summer months there is one more question worth asking us out loud, because it is where the money moves: what does the aircraft do after it has put you down. Released after the drop, it is one price. Held for you through your stay, it is another, and the difference belongs in the quotation you read before you fly rather than in the invoice you read afterwards. Ask us to price it both ways. And if your dates bend at all, ask what is already going south that week - the seasonal drift of the European fleet towards the Mediterranean throws off repositioning flights in exactly the direction you are travelling.

The hourly rates above are third-party published figures for the aircraft class, not prices for this route, and they are shown so that you can check any quotation you receive, ours included. 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

One season, clearly drawn. June to September is when this route is genuinely busy; May and October are the shoulders, and they are where the value sits for anyone whose dates are not fixed by a school term.

Period	What happens	What to do
June to September	The Mediterranean summer, and the weeks when everybody wants to travel the way you are travelling. The competition is not only for aircraft but for the departure hours everyone else also wants, and for the ground arrangements at the far end.	Four to six weeks out for a weekend in July or August. Give us the hour you want to be on the coast rather than the date alone, and tell us the final address - the onward leg is what runs short in these weeks, not the jet.
May and October	The shoulder months. The coast is open, the weather has usually made up its mind, and the crowd has either not arrived or just left.	The best combination of price and availability on this pairing. If your dates bend, this is the window in which to ask for a southbound repositioning flight.
November to March	The quiet half of the year. Naples carries on being a city rather than a resort, and the traffic on this corridor falls back to whoever has a reason to go.	Short notice is realistic and the aircraft is rarely the obstacle. Confirm late departures in advance all the same: in midwinter the day ends earlier than the diary suggests.
April	The season has not started, but the fleet is beginning to move south for it, and Easter can pull a busy week into an otherwise calm month.	Ask early if your dates touch Easter, and ask about empty legs if they do not. This is one of the months in which the aircraft are already going your way.

Seasonality here describes the Mediterranean summer pattern on this corridor, not a published seasonal index for this pair.

Onward from Naples

For many parties Naples is the connection rather than the destination: the aircraft lands, and the coast is still a boat, a car or a helicopter away. Say where you are actually going when you ask for the quotation, and the last leg is arranged with the flight instead of after it.

Capri and the Amalfi coast

Sorrento, Positano and the islands are reached from Capodichino by road, by boat or by helicopter. We arrange the helicopter leg alongside the jet rather than leaving you to find one in August, which is when finding one late is hardest.

Helicopter charter ›

Sardinia, the same summer

The other end of the same Italian season, on the same class of aircraft and out of the same London fields. Worth comparing if the destination is still open.

London to Olbia ›

Empty legs going south

The European fleet drifts towards the Mediterranean each summer and back each autumn. If your dates bend at all, that swing is where the saving on this route lives.

Current empty legs ›

Questions we get about this route

How long is a private jet flight from London to Naples?

About 2 hours 30 minutes in the air over 1,654 km, plus roughly 15 minutes on the ground at each end at a business-aviation terminal. The flight time is an estimate from a model fitted to the times we publish ourselves, not a measured block time; against our own published times its largest deviation is 14 minutes, and it moves with routing, wind, slots and aircraft type.

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

We do not publish a fixed figure, because on a route with a four-month season the week you fly moves the price more than the distance does. The public reference points are hourly rates for the class - EUR 8,400 to 12,900 per hour for European midsize jets (LunaJets, undated), from EUR 4,500 per hour (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), USD 4,700 to 5,500 per hour (Paramount Business Jets, August 2026) - and none of them is a price for a 1,654 km sector: they exclude the crew day, the handling at both ends and the cost of positioning the aircraft. Send us your dates and we quote against them within 30 minutes.

Why is the same flight so much dearer in August?

Because in August you are competing for more than the aeroplane. Every part of the day is in demand at once - the departure hours, the ground handling, the onward leg to the coast - and an aircraft that could turn round and take somebody else somewhere in November may have to wait, or fly away and come back, in the middle of the season. Ask us to price both arrangements rather than assuming the cheaper one.

We are going on to Capri or the Amalfi coast. Does that change how we book?

It changes what to tell us at the start. Capodichino is where the jet lands, but the coast and the islands are reached from there by road, by boat or by helicopter, and in the summer weeks the onward leg is the part that runs short rather than the jet. Give us the final address and the hour you want to arrive at it, and we will arrange the last leg alongside the flight.

Which London airport should we leave from?

Luton is the default and the field the figures on this page are calculated to. Farnborough is the sensible alternative from west London, Surrey or Hampshire, and we fly this sector from there too. Tell us where you will actually be on the morning and we will quote from whichever field gets you airborne sooner.

How many of us fit, with summer luggage?

A midsize cabin normally takes six to nine passengers with luggage on a sector of this length, but on a summer flight south the hold decides before the seats do. Tell us the number of people and, honestly, the number of bags, and we will say which cabin actually fits rather than which one fits on paper.

Are there empty legs between London and Naples, and how late can we book?

This corridor produces repositioning flights because the European fleet moves towards the Mediterranean for the summer and back again in the autumn, so the southbound half of that swing runs in the spring and early summer. An empty leg means the operator's date and roughly the operator's hour, in exchange for a much lower price. Outside the season a same-day departure is realistic; in July and August the honest limit is what can still be confirmed at both ends on your day. The desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.