Paris to Amsterdam is 407 km and about 56 min in the air, Paris Le Bourget to Amsterdam Schiphol, and a light jet covers it without thinking about range. We publish no starting figure for this pair, because on a leg this short the minimum charge decides the price rather than the distance. Send the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows inside 30 minutes; the operations desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.
Under an hour north-east, and both ends are inside Schengen, so nobody stands at a border desk. What is left to arrange is the landing: Schiphol hands out arrival slots in advance, and that is the single line in the plan worth settling first. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs, arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTEOne of the densest business corridors in Europe, flown between two airports that could hardly be less alike. Le Bourget is business aviation and nothing else, with 55,751 movements counted by EBAA in 2023; Schiphol is one of the continent's largest scheduled hubs and logged 14,508 business-aviation movements in the same year. Aircraft sit at both ends, so availability is rarely the problem. The arrival window is, because Schiphol is slot coordinated and the slot is booked rather than chosen on the morning.
The departure half of this day is the easy half. Le Bourget exists for exactly this kind of flight, and you drive to the terminal and walk to the aircraft. The decision worth making is at the Dutch end, and it is not automatic: Schiphol is the obvious name and the wrong answer often enough to be worth a minute. Two quieter fields put you closer to a great many Dutch addresses than the hub does.
| Airport | Codes | Distance | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | 407 km | Where the leg starts, and the field every distance and time on this page is measured from. Business aviation only, no scheduled traffic, several competing handling agents: 55,751 business-aviation movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023). Orly is the fallback when Le Bourget handling is full, and Charles de Gaulle we use only when somebody is connecting off a long-haul. |
| Amsterdam Schiphol | AMS / EHAM | arrival | Where the leg ends, and the right choice for Amsterdam itself or for a connection onto a long-haul departure. It keeps a general-aviation terminal away from the airline piers, so you are not walking through a scheduled concourse to reach a car. It is slot coordinated: we book the arrival window and the handling together rather than assuming an hour is free. |
| Rotterdam The Hague | RTM / EHRD | arrival alternative | Rotterdam, The Hague and the southern Randstad. Markedly quicker from cabin to car than the hub, and frequently the faster door-to-door answer even for addresses that look closer to Amsterdam on a map. |
| Lelystad | LEY / EHLE | arrival alternative | Anything east or north-east of Amsterdam, and any day when you would rather keep clear of hub traffic altogether. Quiet, unhurried, and close enough to Amsterdam that the drive is not the penalty it looks like. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distances calculated great-circle. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
Nothing about 407 km asks anything of an aircraft. Every jet we operate crosses it with fuel to spare, which means the choice is about how many of you there are, what you are carrying and what the cabin has to do for fifty-six minutes – not about whether the machine can make the distance.
The honest default. A Phenom 300, a Citation CJ2 or a Citation Bravo takes up to six or seven passengers and normal luggage, and on a sector this short the difference between a light jet and something larger is felt in the invoice rather than in the journey.
See the fleet ›Worth the step up when there are eight or nine of you, when the luggage is bulky, or when the Amsterdam meeting is the middle of a longer day and the aircraft carries straight on somewhere further afterwards.
See the fleet ›A King Air is the quieter economy on this corridor, and over fifty-six minutes it loses you only a handful of them. It also opens the smaller Dutch fields comfortably, which occasionally matters more than the cruise speed does.
See the fleet ›We do not publish a starting figure for Paris to Amsterdam, and the reason is not coyness. On a leg of fifty-six minutes the price is set by things the distance knows nothing about: the minimum daily charge, where the aircraft slept, whether the crew can be back inside their duty day, and what the handling and the slot cost at each end. A number printed here would be right for one aircraft on one morning and misleading on every other.
What can honestly be said is the shape of the market around it. Brokers publish European light-jet rates of EUR 4,600 to 7,300 per hour, and others quote from EUR 2,900 per hour. Those are rates for a class of aircraft rather than prices for this city pair, and multiplying either by fifty-six minutes gives a figure no operator would sign. Over a sector this short the positioning flight – bringing the aircraft to Le Bourget and taking it wherever it is needed next – is routinely the largest single line in the quotation.
Two things move it in your favour. A same-day return often costs less than two one-way flights, because the aircraft and crew stay with you instead of being repositioned twice. And this corridor produces empty legs more often than most, for the simple reason that aircraft shuttle constantly between Paris and the Low Countries and frequently come back with nobody aboard.
GET A FIRM PRICEThis is a working route, so it fills on working days. March to June and September to November are the busy stretches; August is quiet and so is the fortnight around the turn of the year. The pressure is concentrated in the same hours every week: early Monday and Tuesday mornings outbound, late Thursday and Friday afternoons homeward.
Book early when your day is pinned to an hour. Schiphol's arrival slots are the constraint, not the aircraft, and the popular mid-morning window goes first. Book early too when a trade fair or a summit is in town: the RAI and the Amsterdam conference calendar empty the available handling faster than anything else on this corridor.
You can still go at short notice, and on this pairing same-day departures are realistic rather than heroic. What short notice costs you is choice: the aircraft that happens to be at Le Bourget that morning, and the arrival window that happens to be free.
Amsterdam is as often a stop as a destination, and when it is, the second leg is easier to arrange at the same time as the first. These are routes we already publish, and the aircraft can simply stay with you.
The long sector east, and the usual shape when the Netherlands is a morning of meetings on the way somewhere further rather than the point of the trip.
Amsterdam to Dubai ›South to the Côte d'Azur when a Thursday of work turns into a weekend somewhere warmer. One of the pairs we are asked to quote most often alongside this one.
Amsterdam to Nice ›Another short business hop, and the easiest of all to add to the same booking: two cities in a working day is a shape this corridor handles comfortably.
Amsterdam to Zurich ›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.