Naples to London is 1,654 km and about 2 h 30 min in the air, Capodichino to London Luton, flown on a midsize cabin. This is the homeward half of a summer, and two things decide how the day goes: how long it takes to get off the coast and into Capodichino, and which of the London fields puts you nearest the address you are actually returning to. No fixed starting figure is printed here – on a route with a four-month season one number would be wrong for eight of them. Dates and heads, and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes. +357 95 119759, at any hour.
Two and a half hours north-west and the Bay of Naples is behind you. The party is usually larger on the way home than it looked on the way out, and so is the luggage, so tell us the number of bags as well as the number of people – on this sector the hold reaches its limit before the seats do. Whole aircraft, single seats and repositioning flights, arranged around the clock.
REQUEST A QUOTENorthbound, 1,654 km, and a sector whose difficulty is almost entirely on the ground rather than in the air. Nothing about 2 h 30 in a midsize cabin is demanding. What needs planning is the morning: a party leaving Capri, Positano or Sorrento is still an hour or two from the aeroplane when the day starts, and at the far end the United Kingdom is a frontier rather than a formality. Both of those are solved by telling us where you are starting from and where you are going, not by choosing a bigger jet.
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026; the distance is computed great-circle between Capodichino and Luton. The flight time comes from a model fitted to flight times already published on this website, it is blind to direction, and its largest deviation against those published times is 14 minutes.
One departure that decides itself and three arrivals that do not. Naples has a single field and it happens to be a good one. London has several, and choosing between them is the one decision on this route that can still save you an hour after the aeroplane has landed. It turns on the postcode you are heading for, not on which airport you flew out of.
| Airport | Codes | Role | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naples Capodichino | NAP / LIRN | Departure | Your departure, and the point every distance and time here is measured from. It sits close in to the city, which is the reason it serves the whole bay: Capri, Ischia, Sorrento, Positano and the Amalfi coast all feed into it by helicopter, car or boat. None of those last legs is flown by the jet, so on departure day they sit in front of the flight rather than after it. Give us the address you are leaving and the hour you want to be off the ground, and we work the road or the helicopter backwards from there. |
| London Luton | LTN / EGGW | Arrival, default | The arrival this page is calculated to. It is the busiest business-aviation field in the United Kingdom, which in practice means the widest choice of aircraft on any given day and the best odds that something suitable is already where it needs to be. It sits north of London and is straightforward from the M1 and the north-west. |
| Farnborough | FAB / EGLF | Arrival alternative | A dedicated business-aviation airport with no scheduled traffic at all. If the evening ends in Surrey, Hampshire or the west of London, this is the field that gets you there rather than across it, and we fly this sector into it as readily as into Luton. |
| London Biggin Hill | BQH / EGKB | Arrival alternative | South-east London, Kent and the City. No scheduled traffic, so the time on the ground is short – which is the point for anyone whose diary rather than the fare is the constraint. Say where you need to be and we will name the field instead of defaulting to one. |
Airport names, codes and coordinates: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Handling arrangements and operating hours are confirmed against your dates rather than assumed from this table.
At 1,654 km and two and a half hours this is midsize territory, and the cabin stops being a detail somewhere in the second hour. The type is usually settled by what is in the hold rather than by who is in the seats: a family coming home from a fortnight on the coast travels with a fortnight of luggage, plus whatever the fortnight added to it.
Standing room in a midsize shell, and the ordinary answer for a family or a small group heading home at the end of a week. By the second hour the extra height has paid for itself.
See the Citation XLS+ ›Ask for it when what defeats you is the luggage rather than the head count: a proper galley, a lavatory behind a door, and hold volume built for long stays. Say so at the enquiry; discovering it at the steps costs a morning.
See the Hawker 800XP ›Most recent of the three, with a flat floor and a notably quiet interior. Worth naming when children are aboard, or when you want the run north to be the last unhurried hour of the holiday instead of the first chore of getting back.
See the Citation Latitude ›All three have pages of their own in our fleet section. Heavier cabins fly this sector too and become the sensible answer for a larger party or for a group travelling with sports equipment.
There is no starting figure on this page, in either direction, and printing one would be the dishonest option rather than the helpful one. The same 1,654 km flown on the Saturday that ends August and flown in the middle of November are not the same purchase, and nothing that separates them happens in the air. Send the dates and you have a real number inside half an hour.
Hourly rates for the cabin class do get published, by other people, and we reprint them so you have a yardstick to hold against any quotation, ours included. For European midsize cabins LunaJets publishes EUR 8,400 to 12,900 per hour, undated. Eurosky publishes from EUR 4,500 per hour, dated 19 February 2026. Paramount Business Jets publishes USD 4,700 to 5,500 per hour, August 2026. Every one of those describes a class of aeroplane across a continent, not this sector, and none of them binds anybody.
What you must not do is multiply one of them by 2 h 30. Such a sum has paid for no part of the crew’s working day, nothing to land or handle the aeroplane at either end, and not a euro towards bringing it to Capodichino in the first place – which, on a northbound departure in the season, is usually the single largest line separating two quotations for one and the same flight. Put the question aloud to us and to anybody else bidding: where does this aeroplane begin its day, and what is it contracted to do once it has set you down in England?
If your dates have any give in them, ask what is already going north that week. The European fleet drifts towards the Mediterranean in the spring and comes back in the autumn, so the northbound half of that swing runs from roughly September onwards – which is exactly the direction you are travelling and exactly the season in which most people fly home.
Every hourly figure above was published by somebody else, belongs to a class of aeroplane rather than to this sector, and is reprinted here as a yardstick for auditing quotations rather than as material for constructing one. A price on this route means a written quotation from Diamond Executive Aero Services set against your own dates and passenger numbers. +357 95 119759, 24/7.
GET A FIRM PRICEOne season, drawn sharply. June to September is when the bay is full and everybody wants to leave it on the same three or four Saturdays; May and October are the shoulders and are where the value sits for anyone not tied to a school term.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| June to September | High Mediterranean season. You are bidding not only for an aeroplane but for the hour you want to be airborne and for whatever – rotor, car or hull – has to deliver you to it. Nothing in the year is harder to place than the final weekend of August | Allow four to six weeks for a departure in July or August. Send the hour you need to be standing at Capodichino, not merely the day, together with the address you are setting out from: in these weeks it is the run to the airport that runs out, never the jet |
| May and October | Shoulder weeks. Everything along the coast is open and staffed, the weather has settled one way or the other, and the crowd is either still to come or already gone | Price and availability are at their most agreeable together. Where your dates have any give, October is the month in which to ask what is being repositioned northward |
| November to March | The quiet half of the year. The bay reverts to being a working city rather than a resort, and what is left flying belongs to people with a reason rather than a holiday | Booking late is realistic, and the aeroplane is seldom what blocks it. Agree an evening departure beforehand even so – in midwinter the usable part of the day closes before your diary thinks it has |
| April | Before the season proper, with the fleet already drifting towards the Mediterranean to meet it – which leaves your direction the emptier of the two. Easter can drop one crowded week into an otherwise placid month | If your dates touch Easter, enquire early. If they do not, this is a month for asking about a repositioning flight rather than for buying a charter outright |
The seasonal pattern above describes the Mediterranean summer as it falls on this corridor. It is not a published seasonal index for this city pair, and we print no figures for it.
For a good many parties Luton is the middle of a journey rather than the end of one. A second sector agreed in the same conversation as the first is almost always better value than the same sector bought on its own a fortnight later.
The short hop into Switzerland, and the leg most often bolted on when the summer ends in a meeting rather than at home. It also turns a coastal booking into a winter one without changing anybody’s phone number.
London to Geneva ›Under an hour across the Channel. Worth asking about at the same time when London is the working stop on the way home rather than the destination.
London to Paris ›The long run east, and the continuation we are asked about most by parties whose autumn starts somewhere other than Europe. Priced as one itinerary it behaves better than two separate bookings.
London to Dubai ›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.