Paris to London is 380 km and about 0 h 54 in the air, Paris Le Bourget to Luton, normally on a light jet. From €9 000 for the whole aircraft, one way. Send the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows inside 30 minutes; the operations desk is staffed at every hour on +357 95 119759.
Out of Le Bourget and across the Channel in under an hour - the shortest sector we publish, and the one most often flown out and back inside a single working day. The decision that matters here is not the aeroplane. It is which of the three London fields puts you nearest the meeting.
REQUEST A QUOTEIf business aviation in Europe has a signature route, this is it: brokers working from 2017 data named London-Paris the United Kingdom's most popular city pair within Europe. You leave from the largest business-aviation airport on the continent - Le Bourget recorded 55,751 movements in 2023, more than any other in Europe and more than twice London Luton's 26,661 - and you land at whichever of three London fields suits the address you are actually going to. At 380 km the flying is barely an hour, which is why every interesting number on this page belongs to the ground rather than to the air: how long from the car to the aircraft at this end, and how long from the aircraft to the meeting at the other.
The departure is settled before you ask: Le Bourget. The arrival is the whole of the decision on this sector - three London fields, minutes apart in the air and up to an hour apart on the road. Choose by where you are going, not by what the distance column says.
| Airport | Codes | Great-circle to Le Bourget | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | 314 km | Where the sector starts. The closest airport to central Paris and the busiest business-aviation field in Europe with 55,751 movements in 2023, laid out throughout for getting you out of a car and onto an aircraft. The one week to flag is the Paris Air Show, when Le Bourget's own ramp becomes the constraint - tell us early if your dates fall inside it. |
| London Biggin Hill | BQH / EGKB | arrival | The shortest of the three at 314 km from Le Bourget, and the arrival for south and south-east London, Kent and the City. The City is usually the point: this is a route flown by people whose diary rather than whose budget is the binding constraint, and Biggin Hill is where the road from the aircraft is shortest for them. |
| Farnborough | FAB / EGLF | 344 km | The arrival for Surrey, Hampshire and west London. It handles business aviation and nothing else, with no scheduled operation to work around, so the walk from the aircraft to the car is the shortest of the three. It is also the London field that the one published price reference for this pairing was measured against. |
| London Luton | LTN / EGGW | 380 km | The arrival for north London and anything off the M1. It carries the widest choice of aircraft, which on a same-day departure out of Paris is often the reason it wins: the aeroplane that can actually reach Le Bourget by the hour you need may only be available at this end. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Movement counts: EBAA 2023 via Private Jet Card Comparisons, 4 June 2024.
Three hundred and eighty kilometres is a light-jet sector and nothing more than that. The aeroplane is airborne for under an hour, so what you are buying is the departure time out of Le Bourget rather than the cabin you sit in. Where the type does start to matter is availability: on a short-notice departure the real question is which aircraft can be standing at Le Bourget by the hour you need, and that is usually what picks it.
Six to eight passengers with a 2.27 cubic metre hold. It is the most commonly available type at all three London fields, which on this direction means it is also the easiest one to have positioned into Le Bourget at short notice.
See the Embraer Phenom 300 ›Six to seven passengers, and the economical answer on a fifty-minute sector. The difference in comfort from a wider cabin is genuinely hard to notice before the aircraft is on the ground again at the other end.
See the Cessna Citation CJ2+ ›Six to seven passengers and 2.07 cubic metres of hold, unhurried and quiet. A sensible choice for the day return that is carrying documents and samples rather than suitcases.
See the Citation Bravo ›All three types are on our own fleet pages. A board of eight or more crosses on a Citation XLS+ or a Hawker 800XP, which fly the same sector to the same schedule.
From €9 000 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.
One published reference exists for this pairing, and it happens to have been measured in this direction: Paris to Farnborough. It is printed below with its source. It is somebody else's estimate and not our offer.
| Reference | Basis | Indicative price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this pairing | Paris to Farnborough, from | from approx. 9,000 EUR | brokers UK page, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Hourly rate, light jet | Europe | 4,600 - 7,300 EUR per hour | Broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Hourly rate, light jet | Europe, from | from 2,900 EUR per hour | brokers, 19.02.2026 |
| Hourly rate, light jet | Europe | 3,750 - 4,200 USD per hour | brokers, August 2026 |
| Empty leg | varies | brokers publish discounts of 50-75% | broker price pages, all retrieved 23.08.2026 |
This route runs on a working calendar rather than a holiday one, which makes it the easiest sector on this site to book in the months when every other route we publish is full.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| March to June | The heaviest business period of the year in both directions, and the season in which the day return is the normal shape of the trip. | A week is usually enough. Book the return with the outbound: on a sector this short, having the aircraft wait in London normally costs less than sending it back to Paris empty and fetching it again. |
| July and August | Paris empties in August and this route empties with it. EUROCONTROL's analysis of European business flying found a pronounced July-August trough, with June and September the genuine peaks. | The easiest and cheapest weeks of the year to fly it, and short notice is realistic throughout. |
| September to November | The second business peak, with conference and exhibition traffic sitting on top of it at both ends. | One to two weeks. Watch for the weeks when Le Bourget itself is hosting an event - on this direction that is a departure-end problem rather than an arrival-end one. |
| December to February | Quiet apart from the fortnight around Christmas. Aircraft cross the Channel to reposition constantly through these months. | The best empty-leg window on the route. |
Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. City pair ranking: brokers, "Europe: the Big 5 of private aviation", 2017 data. July-August trough: EUROCONTROL, "Getting to the Point: Business Aviation in Europe", Trends in Air Traffic vol. 1. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
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