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Private Jet Charter Palma de Mallorca to Madrid

Palma de Mallorca to Madrid is 547 km west, about 1 h 06 min in the air, Palma de Mallorca to Madrid Barajas, normally on a light jet. From €5 000 for the whole aircraft, one way. Tell us the dates and how many are travelling and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes; the operations desk is staffed at every hour on +357 95 119759.

Off the island and into the capital: 547 km, about 1 h 06 on a light jet. It is the leg people take to a Madrid meeting, and the leg they take to reach a long-haul departure from Barajas without losing a day to it. Arranged 24/7.

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The route at a glance

Two large airports, large in different ways, and flown this way it is the second one that repays planning. Palma is among Europe's biggest holiday-charter airports - EBAA counted 17,504 business-aviation movements there in 2023 against 14,754 at Madrid Barajas - and in August the difficulty on the island is the queue you join to get airborne at all. Barajas is simply vast, but business aviation lives in its own corner of it, which is what keeps the arrival short.

Distance

547 km

296 nautical miles great-circle, Palma de Mallorca to Madrid Barajas; the track actually flown west across the mainland is a little longer than the straight line

Flight time

approx. 1 h 06 min

A direction-neutral estimate from a model fitted to our own published times, not a measured block time. Flown west you are more often into the prevailing wind than behind it

Departure

PMI

Palma de Mallorca LEPA - a very large holiday-charter airport with a general aviation terminal; in high season the taxi out is the part of the morning that stretches

Arrival

MAD

Madrid Barajas LEMD - the capital hub with a separate executive terminal, and the point at which a good many passengers on this leg change to something else

Typical aircraft

Light jet

Phenom 300, Citation CJ2, Citation Bravo - light jets, because over 547 km the argument is about cost rather than range

Busiest months

Jun - Sep

June to September on the Mediterranean calendar, May and October as the shoulder. The corporate traffic off the island into the capital carries on through the winter

Distance is the great-circle figure between airport coordinates. 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 will move with routing, wind, slots and aircraft type. Your quotation carries the real schedule.

Which airports we use

A domestic Spanish sector, so there is no border to arrange at either end. What there is instead is a queue at the start and sheer size at the finish. Palma in August is a package-holiday machine and a business jet takes its turn in it; Barajas is enormous, but business aviation there is handled separately, which is why the arrival is the quick half of the day.

Airport	Codes	Distance	Suits you if
Palma de Mallorca	PMI / LEPA	547 km	Your departure. In July and August a light jet queues behind charter traffic here, so we plan the taxi and the departure slot rather than hope for the best. An early hour is worth asking for: the island airport is at its calmest before the charter wave builds, and the hour is the part of the day you can still choose.
Ibiza	IBZ / LEIB	the other Balearic departure	You are starting from Ibiza rather than Mallorca. It is a common combination - Ibiza to Palma and on from there, or straight to Madrid on the same aircraft without touching Mallorca at all.
Menorca	MAH / LEMH	the third island	You are starting from Menorca. A smaller field with fewer stands, where the aircraft usually has to be positioned in for you rather than found waiting. Worth telling us early, because it is the part of the plan with the least slack in it.
Madrid Barajas	MAD / LEMD	arrival	Where this sector ends, and for many passengers the reason they fly it. 14,754 business-aviation movements in 2023, and business aviation is handled at a separate executive terminal, which is what keeps the ground time short at an airport of this size. It is also the Spanish long-haul gateway to the Americas: if you are connecting onwards, give us the flight and the terminal with the booking and we will set the arrival hour against it rather than against a generic connection time. Nothing has to be cleared on landing - the flight is domestic, so there is no customs and no immigration at this end.

Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distance calculated great-circle.

Aircraft for Palma de Mallorca to Madrid

547 km and about 1 h 06 in the air: a light jet sector with no argument to be had about range. The decision is between the smallest cabin that will do the job and one step up from it, and on a weekday run into the capital, with a party carrying nothing heavier than a laptop, the smallest usually wins.

Embraer Phenom 300

The most common light jet on Spanish domestic sectors of this length, and in season the one most readily arranged from Palma. On a leg this short its hold volume is spare capacity rather than a selling point.

See the Phenom 300 ›

Cessna Citation CJ2

The economical choice for a small group going into Madrid for the day and coming back the same evening. Over 547 km what a larger cabin buys you is measured in money rather than in comfort.

See the Citation CJ2 ›

Cessna Citation Bravo

A dependable light jet that keeps the number sensible when the dates will not move. Over about an hour in the air the cruise-speed gap to a newer type comes to a handful of minutes.

See the Citation Bravo ›

All three types are on our own fleet pages. Larger cabins can be arranged on this sector if the party or the luggage calls for one.

What it costs

From €5 000 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.

Read the figure above as a floor rather than a fixed price for Palma to Madrid. On a domestic Spanish sector the number is set by where the aircraft starts its day and whether it can be released once it has brought you in - and in August by both of those plus the queue you leave the island through.

What circulates publicly are hourly rates for the aircraft class, not prices for this route. Brokers publish EUR 4,600 to 7,300 per hour for European light jets, others quote from EUR 2,900 per hour and others publish USD 3,750 to 4,200 per hour, all retrieved in 2026. Over 1 h 06 those rates will mislead you, because the crew day, the landing and handling at both ends and the positioning flight account for more of the bill than the flying does.

Two things move the number on this direction. The first is the shape of the trip: out and back in a day is common here and usually the cheaper form, because the aircraft is not left standing on the island overnight in high season. The second is where the aircraft has to come from to collect you. Through the summer most of the light jet fleet in Spain is committed to the Balearics, and one may still have to be flown out to Palma empty for you - the same seasonal flow that, on other days, sends aircraft back towards the mainland with nobody aboard. Which of the two you meet depends on the date. Send us yours and we will price it properly.

Those hourly rates are third-party published figures for the aircraft class, shown so that you can sanity-check any quotation you receive, ours included. They are not our offer and they are not a price for this sector. Only a written quotation from Diamond Executive Aero Services, against your dates, is a price. Call +357 95 119759, 24/7.

When to fly, and when to book early

In demand terms this is a summer route; in business terms it runs all year. The peak is June to September with May and October as the shoulder, but the midweek traffic off the island into the capital does not stop in winter, and in the quiet months it is most of what flies.

Period	What happens	What to do
June to September	The peak. Second-home owners, families and the business traffic that follows them all use this sector, with Palma running at full holiday-charter volume underneath your departure.	Three to four weeks out, and build in a taxi delay at Palma. Ask for an early hour: the island airport is calmest before the charter wave, and the hour is the part of the day still in your hands.
May and October	The shoulder months, and the best value on the route. The island is open, the airport is not saturated, and the fleet has not yet been swallowed by the season.	A week or two is usually enough. This is the easiest time of year to get both the aircraft and the departure hour off the island that you actually wanted.
November to March	Business only. Company travel, government and professional traffic from the island into the capital, largely midweek and largely out and back within the same day.	Short notice is realistic. Ask for the same-day return to be priced as one trip rather than two: it comes out better than two separate one-ways.
Easter and long weekends	Spanish public holidays compress a season's worth of island traffic into three or four days, running both ways at once, so getting off the island is no easier than getting onto it.	Book as early as you can, and be flexible about the hour rather than about the date.

Onward from Madrid

For a good many passengers on this leg, Madrid is a connection rather than a destination. Barajas is the Spanish long-haul gateway, and it is also the hub for the domestic sectors we fly most often, so the second leg is often settled at the same time as the first.

Madrid to Barcelona

The busiest domestic pairing in Spain, and a short hop on the same light jet. A common second leg when the Madrid meeting finishes at midday.

Madrid to Barcelona ›

Madrid to Malaga

South to the Costa del Sol and Marbella. We run it in both directions and it is a natural continuation of an island-to-capital trip.

Madrid to Malaga ›

Empty legs back to the islands

Aircraft return from Madrid to the Balearics with nobody on board all summer. If your dates bend, that repositioning sector is the cheapest way to fly this route.

Current empty legs ›

Questions we get about this route

How long does it take to get from Mallorca to Madrid?

About 1 hour 6 minutes in the air over 547 km, plus roughly 15 minutes on the ground at each end at a business-aviation terminal - and a little more at Palma in the summer, where the taxi is the variable rather than the flying. The published time is an estimate from a model fitted to the times we publish ourselves, not a measured block time, and it is direction-neutral: flown west you are more often into the prevailing wind than behind it.

Can we connect onto a long-haul flight at Barajas?

Yes, and it is one of the main reasons this sector gets flown rather than driven to a ferry. Business aviation at Barajas is handled at a separate executive terminal, which is what keeps the ground time short at an airport that size. Give us your onward flight and terminal when you book and we will plan the arrival hour and the transfer around it, rather than around a generic connection time.

Is there anything to clear when we land in Madrid?

No. Both airports are in Spain, so this is a domestic flight: no customs, no immigration, no Schengen paperwork on arrival. You will still need photographic identification for the handling agent and we still need the passenger names in advance, but the ground time at each end is about as short as it gets on any route we publish.

Does the flight off the island cost the same as the flight out to it?

Not necessarily, and that surprises people. A charter is priced from where the aircraft is and where it has to go next, not from the map. In July an aircraft based on the mainland may have to fly to Palma empty to collect you; in the shoulder months, when the fleet is drifting back towards the mainland anyway, the island-to-capital direction can be the cheaper one. Ask us for both directions and compare them side by side.

What does it cost, and why is it a floor rather than a price?

From €5 000 one way for the whole aircraft, as a starting point rather than a quotation, because the number depends on where a suitable aircraft is that morning. The public reference points are hourly rates for the class - EUR 4,600 to 7,300 per hour for European light jets, others from EUR 2,900 per hour, others USD 3,750 to 4,200 per hour, all retrieved in 2026 - and none of them is a price for a 547 km sector. Tell us your dates and we will quote against them.

We are on Ibiza or Menorca, not Mallorca. Can we still fly this?

Yes. From Ibiza it is a common combination, either Ibiza to Palma and on from there, or straight to Madrid on the same aircraft. Menorca is the one to raise early: it is a smaller field with fewer stands, so the aircraft usually has to be positioned in for you rather than found waiting, and that is the part of the plan with the least slack in it.

Are there empty legs going back to the mainland?

Regularly, and especially between June and October, when aircraft that have carried a party out to the islands have to get themselves back. The discount range brokers publish is 50 to 75 percent. The catch is the usual one: the operator owns the date and roughly the hour, so a repositioning sector suits a flexible diary rather than a fixed meeting in the capital. Current empty legs

How late can we book a departure off the island?

Outside the summer, same day is entirely normal on a domestic sector with no border formalities to arrange. In July and August the limiting factor is Palma rather than the aircraft, and an early morning departure is worth asking for, because the airport is at its most congested later in the day. The operations desk is staffed 24 hours a day on +357 95 119759 and will tell you straight away whether the hour you want can be confirmed.