Madrid to Paris by private jet takes about 1 h 45 min over 1,054 km, Madrid Barajas to Paris Le Bourget, normally on a light or midsize jet. We publish no starting figure for this sector, because the number that matters depends on where the aircraft sleeps and whether you come back the same day: give us the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes. The operations desk is staffed at every hour on +357 95 119759.
Barajas to Le Bourget in about 1 h 45, both ends inside Schengen. Long enough that the cabin stops being a detail and short enough to be flown out and back inside a working day - which is the choice that actually moves your quotation. Arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTE1,054 km north from the Spanish capital to the French one, and a distance that sits right on the seam between two aircraft classes: the top of the light jet band and the bottom of the midsize one. That is why the fleet on this pairing is mixed, and why the sensible first question is how many of you there are rather than how far it is. The other thing to settle early is the shape of the trip. Out and back the same day keeps the aircraft with you; a night in Paris means it either waits or goes home and comes back, and those are different bills.
One realistic field at the Spanish end and a clear default at the French one, so this is not a route where the airport choice saves you money. It is a route where the hour does. Barajas is a large scheduled airport and your departure sits inside its traffic; Le Bourget exists for aircraft like yours and behaves accordingly.
| Airport | Codes | Role | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid Barajas | MAD / LEMD | 1,054 km | Where the leg starts, the only realistic departure for most jets, and the airport every distance and time on this page is calculated from. You use the executive aviation terminal rather than the passenger halls, which keeps the process on the ground short. What that does not do is take your departure out of the hub's traffic: this is a busy scheduled airport and the hour you leave sits inside it. Give us the time you need to be in Paris and we will work the departure back from it rather than the other way round. |
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | arrival | Where the sector ends, and the airport the figures on this page are calculated to. The closest airport to central Paris and the busiest business-aviation field in Europe, with everything about it built around short ground times. In Paris Air Show weeks its own ramp becomes the constraint rather than the aircraft, so name those dates at the first call. |
| Paris Orly | ORY / LFPO | arrival alternative | The fallback, on two grounds: an address in the southern suburbs, or a week in which Le Bourget handling is genuinely booked out. It is a scheduled airport that also takes business aviation subject to slots, so it is a question we check against your dates rather than a default. |
| Paris Charles de Gaulle | CDG / LFPG | connection only | We use it for one purpose: a passenger connecting straight onto a scheduled intercontinental flight, where the walk between the two matters more than the drive into the city. It is not a default and it is not what the figures on this page are calculated to. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distance calculated great-circle.
1,054 km sits at the top of the light jet band and the bottom of the midsize one, which is exactly why we quote this pairing with a mixed fleet. About 1 h 45 in the air is also the point at which a stand-up cabin starts to be worth paying for: on a fifty-minute hop it is a nicety, on this sector four or five people notice it.
The light jet that covers this sector comfortably and the cheapest sensible way to fly it with a small party. If you are two or three people with briefcases and a fixed diary, this is usually the answer.
See the Phenom 300 ›A stand-up midsize cabin, and the usual choice for a group travelling together for a day or two of meetings. Close to two hours in the air is long enough for the extra cabin height to register.
See the Citation XLS+ ›The step up when the luggage rather than the party is the problem: a full galley, a separate lavatory and the hold volume for a longer stay or for equipment travelling with you.
See the Hawker 800XP ›All three types are on our own fleet pages. Heavier cabins can be arranged on this sector too.
We do not publish a starting price for Madrid to Paris. On this pairing a headline figure would hide the two decisions that actually set the bill - which cabin you take, and whether the aircraft stays with you overnight - so it would be a number to advertise rather than one to book against. What follows is the honest version.
What does get published are hourly rates for the aircraft class. Brokers publish EUR 4,600 to 9,700 per hour for European light and midsize jets (undated), another quotes from EUR 2,900 to 3,500 per hour (published February 2026) and a third publishes USD 3,750 to 4,600 per hour (August 2026). They are worth having in order to sanity-check a quotation and no use at all for building one: multiply an hourly rate by 1 h 45 and you have left out the crew day, the landing and handling at both ends and, on a trip with a night in it, the parking and the repositioning.
Three things move your number here. The cabin, because this distance is quoted from two different aircraft classes and the gap between them is real. The shape of the trip - out and back inside a working day is often cheaper per leg than one way with a night, because the aircraft is not left idle in the wrong country. And where the aeroplane happens to be that morning: on a north-south pairing like this one, the seasonal drift of the European fleet means the answer changes with the month. It is always worth asking us what is already moving your way.
This is a business route between two capitals and it follows the working year: March to June and September to November are the busy stretches, with a lull in August and another over the late-December holidays. The useful thing to know is that the lull is in the demand for this sector, not necessarily in the supply of aircraft.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| March to June | The strongest stretch of the year. Board meetings, deal timetables and trade events fill the midweek mornings in both directions, and the early Barajas windows go first. | A week to ten days ahead for a fixed morning departure. Tell us the meeting time rather than the take-off time and we will work the departure back from it. |
| July to August | Corporate traffic on the pairing drops away as offices empty in both countries. That does not automatically make the flight cheap: in the same weeks the European fleet is working the Mediterranean coast and the islands, so a suitable aircraft may not be sitting in Madrid waiting for you. | Good value if your trip is business rather than leisure, but confirm earlier than the quiet diary suggests. Ask us where the aircraft would be coming from before you fix the hour. |
| September to November | The second business peak. Autumn conference season and year-end deal work put pressure on the same midweek windows at both ends. | Two weeks out for a fixed date. Ask for the same-day return to be priced alongside the one way - on this pairing it is often the better-value shape of trip. |
| Late December | Quiet at both ends. The corporate traffic between Madrid and Paris stops almost completely over the holidays. | The easiest weeks of the year to book at short notice, and the best weeks to ask about a repositioning flight running your way. |
Le Bourget sits in the middle of Europe's busiest business-aviation corridor, so a second sector out of Paris is usually easier to arrange than the first one. If Paris is a stop rather than the destination, say so at the first call - it can change which aircraft we put on the Madrid leg.
Across the Channel and out of Schengen, the one leg on a multi-city itinerary that needs passenger details filed in advance. We run it in both directions.
Paris to London ›The other common second leg, and a short one. Worth naming early if the week is Madrid, Paris and northern Italy rather than a there-and-back.
Paris to Milan ›The Cote d'Azur run, and the busiest business-aviation corridor in Europe. If the Paris meeting ends on a Friday, this is frequently where the aircraft is going next in any case.
Paris to Nice ›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.