Malaga to Dublin is 1,868 km and about 2 h 46 non-stop, normally on a midsize cabin – a Citation XLS+, a Citation Latitude or a Hawker 800XP. Indicative price from €12 400 for the whole aircraft, one way: our own calculated floor rather than a quotation, and the arithmetic is set out below. Malaga is one of the few Mediterranean fields with room on the apron in August, so a summer departure is an unhurried one; what is worth settling first is which Irish airport you actually want. Written quotation inside 30 minutes; +357 95 119759 answers at any hour.
The Costa del Sol to Ireland without a connection, and without the coach transfer at the Spanish end or the queue at the Irish one. Tell us the party, the dates and the postcode you are heading for in Ireland – on this sector the last of those decides more than the first two.
REQUEST A QUOTENorthbound this is the easier half of an easy pairing. You are leaving a large mainland airport that has a proper business-aviation terminal and, unusually for the Mediterranean in high summer, somewhere for the aeroplane to stand; nothing about the departure is a scramble. The decision that repays attention sits at the far end instead. Dublin is the default arrival and the field every figure here is measured from, but Cork is 153 km closer to Spain and Shannon 53 km closer, which on a party heading for Munster or the mid-west is a shorter flight and a very much shorter drive.
Going north, the Spanish end is about which stretch of coast you are leaving and the Irish end is about the drive at the other side. Both are worth a sentence before the aeroplane is fixed.
| Airport | Codes | Great-circle to Dublin | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaga Costa del Sol | AGP / LEMG | 1,868 km | The default departure and the field every figure on this page is measured from. A large mainland airport with a dedicated business-aviation terminal, 13,835 business-aviation movements in 2023 and – the point that matters most in August – room on the apron. The practical departure for Malaga itself, Marbella, Estepona, Benahavis and the whole central coast. |
| Gibraltar | GIB / LXGB | 1,922 km | The longer sector and, for Sotogrande and the far western coast, much the shorter drive to the aircraft. It is a separate jurisdiction with its own exit formalities and the runway has its own operational character, so it is planned rather than chosen on the morning. When it fits, it saves a real hour on the road. |
| Jerez | XRY / LEJR | 1,855 km | Marginally shorter than Malaga and the right departure if your week ends at Cadiz, Sanlucar or Jerez rather than on the Costa del Sol. Handling is thinner here than at Malaga, so it wants asking about early rather than on the day. |
| Dublin | DUB / EIDW | arrival | Where the bulk of this traffic ends up. Business movements are dealt with away from the scheduled terminals, and that separation is what keeps you off the ramp quickly even in a crowded week. The 2023 count here was 7,559 business-aviation movements. The correct field for the capital, for Kildare, for the east generally and for anyone with a connection to make. |
| Cork | ORK / EICK | 1,715 km | The shortest of the Irish arrivals by more than 150 km, which is about eleven minutes less in the air. It is the correct field for Cork, Kerry and the south, and on this pairing the saving is genuine rather than a rounding difference. |
| Shannon | SNN / EINN | 1,815 km | Fifty kilometres shorter than Dublin and the sensible arrival for Limerick, Galway and the mid-west. Long runways and unhurried ground handling make a late arrival easier to arrange here than at Dublin. |
Codes and coordinates are taken from the open OurAirports dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026; the movement counts are EBAA’s 2023 figures as reported by Private Jet Card Comparisons on 4 June 2024. Handling at each field is confirmed against your own dates before anything is fixed.
Nearly three hours with a comfortable margin puts this in the midsize class, and northbound the hold matters even more than it did going out. A fortnight on the coast rarely comes home lighter than it went.
Seven to eight passengers in a stand-up cabin with a 2.55 cubic metre hold, the largest of the three for its size. The first type we put forward for a family coming home after a fortnight rather than a pair coming home from a meeting.
Cessna Citation XLS+ ›Nine seats and the highest ceiling of the three, with a flat floor and an aisle you can actually walk along. Near enough three hours in the air is where that stops being a brochure line and starts deciding whether you land stiff or comfortable.
Cessna Citation Latitude ›Six to eight passengers, a full galley, a separate lavatory and 5,463 km of range. The margin is wasted on Dublin alone, which is exactly why this is the type to name when Ireland is one stop of a longer week.
Hawker 800XP ›All three types have their own pages in our fleet. Larger cabins fly this sector too and are worth asking about when the party is ten or more.
From €12 400 one way for the whole aircraft. Our own floor, not a quotation, and the arithmetic is on the page rather than behind it.
Nobody has published a price for this city pair from a source we would be willing to reprint, so rather than borrow one we show the working: the flight time at the top of this page, 2 h 46, multiplied by the published entry-level midsize rate of €4 500 an hour dated 19 February 2026, rounded down. It is the same floor that appears on the Ireland-to-Spain page, because the cabin class and the flight time do not change when the aeroplane turns round. It is a sanity check and a floor. It is not our tariff and it is not a quotation.
Going north, two items do the work. Positioning is the first, and it deserves to be put to every quotation you are holding, this one included: there is no midsize fleet parked at Malaga waiting for Irish charters, so wherever the aeroplane was beforehand forms a genuine part of what you pay. The second is whether it stays. Unlike the Balearic fields, Malaga can usually find room for an aircraft on the ground even at the height of summer, which turns keeping it and its crew with you from a theory into a real option. Over a long weekend that often beats buying two separate one-way sectors, because it removes a positioning leg at each end rather than only one.
The calendar behaves differently here than on the island pairings. This coast works through the winter – property, business and golf keep it occupied from November into March – so there is no dead stretch beneath the summer to drag prices down to nothing. In its place there is a long, unhurried shoulder where aeroplanes are easy to position and the numbers come back visibly below what August produces.
| Reference | Basis | Indicative figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, one way | Our own floor for the cabin class and the time | from approx. 12,400 EUR | 2 h 46 x the published entry-level midsize rate below, rounded down. Not a quotation |
| Hourly rate, midsize | Europe, from | from 4,500 EUR per hour | Broker published entry-level rate, 19.02.2026 |
| Hourly rate, midsize | Europe | 8,400 – 12,900 EUR per hour | Broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Hourly rate, midsize | Europe, dollar-quoted | 4,700 – 5,500 USD per hour | Broker published range, August 2026 |
| Empty leg | varies with the day | brokers publish discounts of 50 – 75% | Broker price pages, retrieved 23.08.2026. The Malaga corridor carries repositioning traffic all year, not only in summer |
Apart from our own floor, every line in that table is somebody else’s published rate, set out here purely so you have a yardstick to hold against a quotation – ours as much as anybody’s. It is not an offer and it obliges nobody. Given the choice between printing a route price we cannot stand behind and printing a calculation with its workings showing, we take the second. Until Diamond Executive Aero Services has quoted your dates in writing, there is no price. +357 95 119759, day or night.
Of everywhere in the western Mediterranean, this coast swings least with the season – and on the journey home that works for you through most of the calendar.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| July and August | The summit of the year, and it tracks the Irish school holidays almost exactly. Families go out one week and come back the next, so both directions are busy in the same fortnight. The airport itself absorbs it without complaint; the shortage is in aeroplanes. | A month or more for the obvious dates, and put both legs in the same booking. Leaving midweek is markedly easier to arrange than leaving on a Friday or a Sunday. |
| May, June, September, October | Weather and availability at their most agreeable together. Still warm when you leave, nothing queuing on the apron, and a midsize cabin generally findable seven days out. | A week or two. Any flexibility you have is worth spending in these months rather than elsewhere in the year. |
| November to March | Nothing shuts. Property deals, ordinary business and a golf season that runs right through keep a steady trickle of traffic going, and Spanish winter weather almost never gets in the way of a departure. | Booking a few days ahead genuinely works here, and these are the months in which waiting a little for a repositioning flight actually pays. |
| Easter and the Christmas fortnight | Two short, violent bursts of family travel, each compressed into a few days and each running out and back inside two weeks. | Fix the dates as early as you are able, and ask us what the days either side look like – they are usually a great deal easier to fill. |
Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
For a good number of parties Ireland is the end of the trip. For the rest it is a stop, and the second sector is cheaper arranged with this one than after it.
433 km and about 58 minutes into Luton on a light jet, and the commonest continuation, published in its own right with its own choice of London field.
Dublin to London ›783 km and about 1 h 24 into Le Bourget, and the usual shape when Ireland is business and what follows is not.
Dublin to Paris ›1,720 km and about 2 h 35 back down to the Mediterranean on the island side. Worth naming at the enquiry if the next set of dates is already fixed.
Dublin to Ibiza ›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.