Olbia to Milan Linate is 506 km and roughly 1 h 3 min of flying, a light jet and one crossing of the Tyrrhenian. You will find no price printed anywhere below, and the omission is deliberate: on this corridor the number is decided by where the aeroplane came from and what it is asked to do next, neither of which can be read off a distance. Linate works to slots and shuts overnight, so the hour you want to land is the first thing we pin down. Send dates and heads; a written quotation follows within 30 minutes and +357 95 119759 is answered at every hour.
An hour northbound off the Costa Smeralda puts you at the airport nearest the middle of Milan. The alternative is a drive to a port, a sailing and most of a day gone, which is why this crossing is bought by people counting days rather than euros. Whole aircraft, single seats and repositioning flights, arranged around the clock.
REQUEST A QUOTESixty-odd minutes that give a day back, flown in the direction the summer fleet already wants to travel. Anything serving Sardinia out of the north has to get home again, and the homeward half of that traffic runs without passengers right through the season – which makes northbound the affordable end of an expensive corridor for anyone whose diary bends. At the Lombardy end the awkward item is not an aeroplane but a clock: one runway at Linate, slots on it, and nothing moving after hours.
Coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026, measured to Milan Linate. The time model reads t = 0.414 h + km / 793 km/h and was least-squares fitted to twelve route-and-time pairs already published on this site; its worst miss against any of them is 14 minutes, and it treats the two directions alike.
One departure that needs no discussion and three arrivals that do. Nothing in the north-east of Sardinia competes with Olbia. In Lombardy the decision is real, and it turns on where your car is going afterwards rather than on anything aeronautical.
| Airport | Codes | Distance | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olbia Costa Smeralda | OLB / LIEO | departure | This row is about an hour rather than about a choice. What runs out at Olbia in high summer is ramp space, not runway and not slot, and a departure feels that as sharply as an arrival does: the jet lifting you out may have landed empty earlier the same day purely in order to do it. Tell us when you want wheels up, not merely which morning. |
| Milan Linate | LIN / LIML | 506 km | Every distance here is measured to it. No comparable jet airport sits as close to the middle of Milan, so most of what this crossing saves is saved in the car afterwards rather than in the air. A single runway, slot control and a closure overnight are the whole of the Milan problem – an evening on the coast therefore carries a deadline, and it is worth knowing the deadline before dinner rather than after it. |
| Milan Malpensa | MXP / LIMC | arrival alternative | The next thing in your diary is an intercontinental departure, or Linate has nothing left at the hour you need. It lies north-west of the city and further out, and it earns its place as a connection airport rather than as an address airport. |
| Milan Bergamo | BGY / LIME | arrival alternative | You are genuinely heading east – Brescia, Bergamo, the eastern lakes. Crossing Lombardy by road costs more time than the crossing you have just bought, so say at the enquiry where you are going rather than letting us land you on the wrong side of the city. |
At 506 km every light cabin has margin in hand, so the fleet question here is mercifully dull. What settles the type at the close of August is the hold rather than the range: a party coming home from a fortnight carries a fortnight's luggage plus whatever the fortnight added to it, and that is an argument about cabin size.
The roomiest of the three and the most tolerant of a full hold. Northern Italy carries a great many of them, which in the last week of August counts for more than any performance figure on a data sheet.
See the Phenom 300 ›Turns round fast and is entirely at home on an hour over water. The right answer for four or five people and a weekend's worth of bags.
See the Citation CJ2 ›The cheapest way to buy this crossing and wholly unremarkable across sixty minutes. Ask for it when the diary is fixed and the number is what you are steering by.
See the Citation Bravo ›Each type has a page of its own in the fleet section. Bigger cabins fly the crossing as well, and in the peak weeks what governs their availability at the Sardinian end is the same shortage of stands that governs everything else.
There is no figure here, in either direction, and there will not be one. A crossing in April and a crossing on the Saturday that ends August share a distance and very little else; what separates them never happens in the air. Send the dates and you will have a real number inside half an hour.
Rates by the hour do get published, by other people. LunaJets quotes EUR 4,600 to 7,300 an hour for light and midsize cabins in Europe, undated. Eurosky quotes from EUR 2,900 an hour, dated 19 February 2026. Paramount Business Jets quotes USD 3,750 to 4,200 an hour, August 2026. Hold any of them against a quotation by all means; do not try to build one out of them. An hourly rate multiplied by sixty-three minutes has accounted for none of the crew's day, neither landing nor handling at either end, and – in precisely the weeks you are most likely to travel – no parking whatsoever.
Travelling north, the item that dominates is what the aeroplane was doing before it reached you. Already at Olbia, finishing somebody else's week or going home empty after dropping them, and you are buying a movement that had to happen anyway. Flown down from the mainland to fetch you, with nowhere on that ramp to stand while it waits, and the fetching sector belongs in your bill. Ask us which of the two your quotation is describing; on this route the answer accounts for most of the difference between one number and another.
It is also the direction in which to ask about a repositioning flight. The seasonal tide between the Sardinian coast and the cities of the north pushes aircraft back empty all summer, and back is where you are going.
Every hourly figure above belongs to a third party, describes a class of aeroplane rather than this sector, and is reproduced so that you can audit a quotation – ours as readily as anybody's. None of them binds anyone. A price, on this route, means a written quotation from Diamond Executive Aero Services against your own dates. Call +357 95 119759, 24/7.
GET A FIRM PRICESome of our routes run on two seasons and some on none. This one runs on a single short season, and every sensible rule about booking it falls out of that fact. The coast compresses its year into a few months and the airport obediently does the same.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| November to April | Off-season. Most of what draws people to that coastline is shut, and the traffic through the island field is local and sparse | The cheapest weeks in the calendar here, and a day or two of notice is entirely realistic. Ask what hours the Sardinian end is keeping rather than assuming them |
| May | The coast reopens ahead of the season proper, and operators have not yet signed their summers away | The best price-to-availability window of the year. If your dates will move at all, move them into this one |
| June to September | Mediterranean peak. Stands at Olbia run out long before aeroplanes do, and the middle of August is the worst fortnight of it | Several weeks of notice for an August departure, and give us the hour you want off the ground so the handling window can be pinned before you commit to anything |
| October | The coast empties as quickly as it filled and the fleet turns for the mainland and the winter | Value returns and availability loosens, and unusually the spare capacity is now travelling your way – north. Worth asking what is repositioning |
In any month, name the Linate hour early. There is no night operation there, so a departure that slides at the island end does not merely land late in Milan – past a certain point it lands somewhere else entirely. If the last day on the coast is loose, say so when you enquire and the return gets built around that rather than around an assumption.
Linate is a city airport rather than a finishing line, and a second sector arranged alongside the first is generally cheaper than the same sector bought on its own a week later.
The continuation asked for more than any other out of Lombardy, and the usual shape of the trip when Milan was the junction rather than the point.
Milan to London ›Over the Alps in well under an hour. The sector that turns a summer on the coast into a winter booking without changing anybody's phone number.
Milan to Geneva ›South, domestic, and the leg most often bolted on when the journey home has a working day wedged into the middle of it.
Milan to Rome ›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.