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Private Jet Charter Nice to Olbia

Nice to Olbia by private jet takes about 0 h 52 over 361 km, Nice Cote d'Azur to Olbia Costa Smeralda, normally on a light jet. Indicative price from €4 200 for the whole aircraft, one way. We quote against your dates within 30 minutes and the operations desk answers around the clock on +357 95 119759.

Nice to the Costa Smeralda in about fifty minutes, over the Ligurian Sea and into Olbia. Porto Cervo in less time than it takes to get out of Nice by road in August.

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The route at a glance

Olbia has the shortest and most concentrated business-aviation season of any airport on this site. It recorded 11,848 movements in 2023 against Nice's 37,425 - but Nice spreads those across the year and Olbia crams almost all of its into July and August. The operator brokers reported Milan Linate to Olbia as its single busiest city pair in July 2025, which tells you how much traffic the Costa Smeralda pulls in a few weeks. From Nice it is a 361 km sea crossing: short, undemanding for the aircraft, and completely governed by whether Olbia has anywhere to put it when it lands.

Distance

361 km

195 nautical miles, Nice to Olbia, great-circle

Flight time

approx. 0 h 52

Estimate from our published-times model, not a measured block time

Departure

NCE

Nice Cote d'Azur LFMN, business aviation terminal

Arrival

OLB

Olbia Costa Smeralda LIEO - the airport for Porto Cervo and the north-east

Typical aircraft

Light jet

Phenom 300, Citation CJ2+, Citation Bravo

Busiest months

Jun - Sep

With July and August accounting for most of the year's movements

Distance is the great-circle figure between airport coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset. The flight time is an estimate, 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 it moves with airway routing, wind, slots and aircraft type. Your quotation carries the real schedule.

Which airports we use

A short crossing between two airports that both peak in the same eight weeks. There is one alternative departure worth knowing about.

Airport	Codes	Great-circle to Olbia	Suits you if
Nice Cote d'Azur	NCE / LFMN	361 km	Europe's second busiest business-aviation airport and the default departure for the Riviera. Deepest choice of light jets, and the business terminal is separate from the scheduled ones.
Cannes Mandelieu	CEQ / LFMD	362 km	Twenty-four kilometres west of Nice, so a fractionally longer crossing. Right if the party is coming off a boat at Cannes or Golfe-Juan. Business jets up to a certain size only.
Olbia Costa Smeralda	OLB / LIEO	arrival	The airport for Porto Cervo, Porto Rotondo, Baja Sardinia and the whole north-east coast. In high summer the binding constraint is ramp parking rather than runway or slot, so many aircraft drop and leave rather than wait.

Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Movement counts: EBAA 2023 via Private Jet Card Comparisons, 4 June 2024.

Aircraft for Nice to Olbia

Three hundred and sixty-one kilometres over water is a light-jet sector. It is a sea crossing, though, and that is a reason to be flying a jet with two engines rather than the single-engine turboprops that are sometimes proposed for short Mediterranean hops.

Embraer Phenom 300

Six to eight passengers, 3,650 km of range and a 2.27 cubic metre hold. Ten times the range this sector needs, which is exactly the margin you want over water.

See the Embraer Phenom 300 ›

Cessna Citation CJ2+

Six to seven passengers. The economical choice on a fifty-minute crossing, and usually the easiest type to place at Nice at short notice in July.

See the Cessna Citation CJ2+ ›

Citation Bravo

Six to seven passengers with a 2.07 cubic metre hold. This is the type in one of our own published empty-leg examples, and it suits a leisure crossing with proper luggage.

See the Citation Bravo ›

All three types are on our own fleet pages. Larger parties fly the same sector on a Citation XLS+ or a Hawker 800XP.

What it costs

From €4 200 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.

We have found no published price for Nice to Olbia from a source we would reprint, so treat the figure above as a floor rather than a quotation. What sets the number on this route is unusually specific, and worth understanding before you enquire.

Olbia in August is a parking problem before it is a flying problem. An aircraft that brings you in has to go somewhere, and if it cannot stand on the ramp for the fortnight it will fly away empty and come back for you - two extra sectors that appear in your price whether or not anyone describes them to you. That is the single biggest variable on this route, and it is the first thing we establish when we quote it. After that, the day of the week does most of the rest: Saturday is changeover across the Costa Smeralda and the movements cluster into a few hours of it. Everything else - the crossing itself, the handling, the crew - is small by comparison. Ask us with your dates and we will tell you what the aircraft has to do around your flight, because on this sector that is the quotation.

We have not found a published price for this exact city pair that we would be willing to reprint, so this page carries none. A number invented to fill a table is worse than no number at all. Tell us your dates and passenger count and you will have a real one, in writing, from our operations desk on +357 95 119759, 24/7.

When to fly, and when to book early

Two months carry this route. Knowing that is most of what you need in order to book it sensibly.

Period	What happens	What to do
June	The season opens on the Costa Smeralda. Warm, uncrowded, and the airport still has ramp space.	A week or two. The best value of the summer.
July and August	The peak, and an extreme one - most of Olbia's business-aviation year happens in these weeks. brokers named Milan Linate to Olbia its busiest city pair of July 2025.	Four to six weeks, and establish at the enquiry stage where the aircraft will park. Saturday is changeover day and the hardest to place.
September	The regatta season at Porto Cervo and the best sailing weather of the year. Traffic stays heavy into the middle of the month, then falls away quickly.	Two to three weeks.
October to May	The coast closes. Olbia handles very little business aviation outside the season.	Short notice is realistic if you need it at all.

brokers July 2025 top city pair: Private Jet Card Comparisons, 6 August 2025. Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. Movement counts: EBAA 2023. Google search-suggestion evidence: "private jet nice to olbia", "private jet from olbia to nice", "private jet from sardinia to nice", measured 23 August 2026.

Onward from Olbia

The airport is not the destination; the marina or the villa is.

Porto Cervo by helicopter

The fastest way from the ramp to the Costa Smeralda, and the usual arrival for the yacht crowd. Our own published helicopter rates start at 750 EUR per hour on a Eurocopter AS350.

Helicopter charter ›

Back to the Riviera

The return crossing is the same 361 km. After a Sardinian weekend it is one of the sectors most likely to appear on the empty-leg board.

Current empty legs ›

Or across to the Balearics

Nice to Ibiza is 722 km and about 1 h 20 - the other summer crossing we publish from the Cote d'Azur.

Nice to Ibiza ›

Questions we get about this route

How long is the flight from Nice to Olbia by private jet?

About fifty minutes. The great-circle distance is 361 km and our model gives 0 h 52. From Cannes Mandelieu it is 362 km, essentially the same crossing.

Which airport serves Porto Cervo?

Olbia Costa Smeralda (OLB / LIEO). It is the airport for Porto Cervo, Porto Rotondo, Baja Sardinia and the whole north-east of the island, and it is where the business-aviation handling on Sardinia is concentrated.

How much does a private jet from Nice to Olbia cost?

The figure above is a floor rather than a fixed price, because we have not found a published source for this pair that we would stand behind. On this route the dominant variable is what the aircraft does after it lands - in August it usually cannot stay - so a quotation against your dates is worth far more than an estimate. Call +357 95 119759.

Why does parking at Olbia matter to my price?

Because in July and August the ramp is full. If the aircraft cannot stand there for the duration of your stay it has to fly away empty and come back, and those two extra sectors are in your price whether or not anyone mentions them. Ask about it up front; we will.

Is a single-engine turboprop suitable for this crossing?

It is a sea crossing of 361 km, and we would rather put you on a twin-engine jet for it. The light jets we propose here have several times the range the sector needs, which is the sort of margin that makes an over-water leg unremarkable.

When is the Costa Smeralda busiest?

July and August by a very wide margin, with a September regatta season on top. brokers reported Milan Linate to Olbia as its busiest city pair in July 2025, which gives a sense of how concentrated the traffic is.

Are there empty legs between Nice and Olbia?

In season, often - for the parking reason above, aircraft leave Olbia empty every day of August. Current empty legs.

Can I buy a single seat?

On flights we open for sharing, yes. You book the seats you need and the aircraft cost is split between the passengers. More about jet sharing.

Can I book a last-minute private jet from Nice to Olbia?

Often yes, and this is the most common way this route is booked. A last-minute charter means the aircraft, the crew and the airport slots have to line up at short notice: when they do, we have put people in the air within a few hours of the first call. What decides it is where a suitable aircraft happens to be and whether the windows at both ends are open, not our willingness. Call the operations desk on +357 95 119759 — it answers around the clock — and we will tell you straight away whether your timing is achievable rather than promise and check later. Last-minute empty legs on this corridor are worth asking about at the same time.