Nice to Ibiza is about 1 h 19 in the air over 722 km, Nice Cote d'Azur to Ibiza, flown on a light to midsize jet. From €5 800 for the whole aircraft, one way. Send the dates and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes; the operations desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.
West across the Mediterranean, coast to island, in a little over an hour. The flying is the easy half. What decides your day is the arrival: Ibiza has one runway, and in high summer the slot and the space to park are harder to come by than the aeroplane.
REQUEST A QUOTEThere is no business case for this sector and a very strong leisure one. Nobody commutes to Ibiza; people fly out to it because the boat is there and the villa is here, because guests are joining a charter, or because a Mediterranean fortnight is being taken in two halves. The two ends are nothing alike in scale: Nice recorded 37,425 business-aviation movements in 2023 against Ibiza's 14,383, and Nice spreads its year over twelve months where Ibiza compresses nearly all of its into four. Flying west you also have the upper winds against you more often than not, which is one reason the crossing out can run a few minutes longer than the crossing home - the published figure below is direction-neutral and takes no view on that.
One obvious field at each end, plus a second departure worth knowing about if the party is gathering west of Nice. The arrival is the row that will shape your day, so read it with your dates in front of you.
| Airport | Codes | Great-circle to Ibiza | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nice Cote d'Azur | NCE / LFMN | 722 km | The default departure and the reason short notice often works on this sector. Europe's second busiest business-aviation airport carries the deepest choice of aircraft on the Riviera, and business traffic is handled in a terminal separate from the scheduled one. |
| Cannes Mandelieu | CEQ / LFMD | 698 km | Twenty-four kilometres west of Nice, and at 698 km the marginally shorter crossing. The right departure if the party is already on the Croisette or in the Golfe-Juan marinas. It takes business jets up to a certain size, so give us the party and the luggage and we will say whether it works before you count on it. |
| Ibiza | IBZ / LEIB | arrival | Where the sector ends, and the row that matters. One runway, shared through the summer with very heavy scheduled traffic. Business aviation is handled separately; the slot and the ramp parking are not, and from July onwards those two are the constraint rather than the supply of aircraft. If the aircraft cannot park, it leaves again after dropping you - which is a price question as much as an operational one. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Movement counts: EBAA 2023 via Private Jet Card Comparisons, 4 June 2024.
At 722 km the water crossing asks nothing of any of these aeroplanes, so range is not the question. Going out at the start of a stay, the luggage is: villa bags, boat bags and whatever the party is bringing for a fortnight fill a small hold long before they fill the seats. Tell us what is coming with you before you tell us which type you want.
Six to eight passengers, a 2.27 cubic metre hold and 3,650 km of range - several times what this crossing needs. It is also the type most likely to be free at Nice at a day's notice in July, which is why it is the usual answer to a late outbound.
See the Embraer Phenom 300 ›Seven to eight passengers, a stand-up cabin and 2.55 cubic metres of hold. The right aeroplane when the party is moving properly rather than travelling light, and the one that stops the luggage conversation before it starts.
See the Cessna Citation XLS+ ›Six to eight passengers, a full galley and a separate lavatory. Worth the step up for a group that intends to eat and drink its way across the Mediterranean rather than simply sit through the crossing.
See the Hawker 800XP ›All three types are on our own fleet pages. Larger cabins fly this sector too - our own published Ibiza examples include a Legacy 650 and a Citation Bravo.
From €5 800 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.
No published price for Nice to Ibiza has reached us from a source we would be willing to reprint, so the figure above is a floor rather than a quotation. What decides the real number is set out below.
The price of this crossing is mostly a question about the aeroplane's day rather than about your flight. In August there is no ramp space to spare at either end, so an aircraft that carries you west is very unlikely to sit and wait for you: it will turn round with somebody else aboard or reposition empty. That is why the same crossing can be quoted two quite different ways inside one week, and why we ask what you are doing after you land rather than only where you are going. Then comes the day of the week - Friday and Sunday are the movements everybody wants, and a Tuesday in the same week is a different market. Then the boat. If the arrival has to deliver you to a marina in time for a departure, say so when you enquire rather than afterwards, because the slot has to be built around that hour and slots at both these airports are finite in high summer.
Two of the most seasonal airports in Europe joined by one sector, and the outbound fills first. From late spring the traffic runs this way, towards the island, and for seven months of the year it barely runs at all.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| May and October | The shoulders. The coast and the island are both open, neither airport is full, and aircraft are being positioned into or out of the Mediterranean anyway. | A week ahead is enough for an outbound, and these are the weeks when an empty leg going your way is most likely to exist. |
| June and September | Full season without the peak congestion, and the two months EUROCONTROL's analysis identifies as the genuine annual peaks of European business flying. | Two weeks for a crossing on a weekend. Ask us to hold the Ibiza slot as soon as your arrival day is fixed. |
| July and August | Maximum pressure at both ends at once, and it is ramp parking rather than aircraft that runs out. An aeroplane that brings you in will normally leave again straight away. | Four weeks or more. Ask what the aircraft does after it has dropped you - on this sector that answer is part of the price rather than a detail. |
| November to April | The island winds down and the sector effectively stops. Nice keeps working the whole year, but very little of it goes to the Balearics. | If you do need it, short notice is entirely realistic and the aeroplane will not be the difficulty. |
Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. June and September peaks: EUROCONTROL, "Getting to the Point: Business Aviation in Europe", Trends in Air Traffic vol. 1. Movement counts: EBAA 2023. Google search-suggestion evidence: "private jet nice to ibiza", "private jet ibiza to nice", measured 23 August 2026.
Landing on the island is rarely the end of the plan, and what happens in the hour after the aircraft stops is worth settling before you leave the coast.
Most parties go straight from the ramp to a berth. Give us the marina and the hour you are expected on board, and the arrival gets built around that rather than the other way round.
Ask about transfers ›The way back is the same 722 km, and after a summer weekend it is among the sectors most likely to come up as an empty leg. Worth asking about while you are booking the outbound.
Current empty legs ›If part of the party is coming from England rather than the coast: London to Ibiza is 1,452 km and about 2 h 15, the other way most of our Ibiza passengers arrive.
London 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.