Paris to Madrid is 1,054 km and about 1 h 45 in the air, Paris Le Bourget to Madrid Barajas, normally on a light or midsize jet. Both ends are inside Schengen, so there is no border step in the schedule. We publish no starting figure for this pair; send the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows inside 30 minutes, and the operations desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.
An hour and three quarters south-west across France and over the Pyrenees, between two capitals whose business calendars overlap almost completely. There is no border and no slot lottery worth worrying about – which leaves the aircraft, the hour and, one week in two years, the Paris Air Show. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs, arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTEA corporate corridor with an unusually clean set of conditions at both ends. Le Bourget is eight kilometres from the périphérique, wholly given over to business aviation, and with 55,751 movements in 2023 the busiest such field in Europe. Madrid Barajas counted 14,754 business-aviation movements in the same year and puts private traffic through an executive terminal rather than the passenger halls, so the ground time at the Spanish end is short by design. What is left to plan is the hour, and occasionally the week.
Madrid is effectively one answer for a jet; Paris is three fields with different characters. The choice at the Paris end is about which side of the city your morning starts on, and about one week in the calendar when Le Bourget belongs to somebody else entirely.
| Airport | Codes | Distance | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | 1,054 km | Where the leg starts, and the field every distance and time on this page is measured from. Eight kilometres from the périphérique, wholly business aviation, and with 55,751 movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023) the busiest such airport in Europe. Night movements are restricted. In Paris Air Show weeks the field is effectively committed, and we plan around it rather than through it. |
| Paris Orly | ORY / LFPO | departure alternative | Your morning starts south or south-west of Paris, or Le Bourget has no window at the hour you need. A large scheduled airport with a business-aviation facility attached; slots and stands are shared with airline traffic. |
| Paris Charles de Gaulle | CDG / LFPG | connection only | Somebody in the party is arriving off a scheduled intercontinental flight and the walk matters more than the drive. It is not a default and not what the figures here are measured from. |
| Madrid Barajas | MAD / LEMD | arrival | Where the leg ends, and the only realistic arrival for most jets. You use the executive aviation terminal rather than the passenger halls, which keeps the process on the ground short: 14,754 business-aviation movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023). If your destination is on the coast rather than in the capital, tell us and we will quote the coastal field directly instead of adding a drive. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distances calculated great-circle. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
A thousand kilometres is within easy reach of everything we operate, so the choice is about the party and the day rather than about range. The only performance question worth asking is whether the trip continues south or west afterwards, because that is where the cabin starts to matter.
The efficient answer for up to six with ordinary luggage. A Phenom 300 or a Citation CJ2 crosses non-stop in comfort, and at 1 h 45 the cabin is adequate rather than a compromise anybody remarks on.
See the fleet ›What we quote above six passengers, with bulky luggage, or when people need to work facing each other. Also the better answer if Madrid is a stop on the way to the Canaries or across the Atlantic.
See the fleet ›Worth it for a larger group, or when the schedule has you landing and going straight into a working day. More cabin, a quieter ride, and margin in hand if the routing goes long around weather over the Pyrenees.
See the fleet ›We publish no starting figure for Paris to Madrid. At 1 h 45 the hourly rate and the fixed costs are of similar size, and the aircraft category moves the total more than anything about the route does – so a single printed number would be honest for one cabin and wrong for the others.
The quotation is built from four things: the aircraft you take, where it slept and where it has to be next, whether one crew can fly out and back inside a duty day, and handling and parking at both ends. Published hourly rates by class are a reasonable way to compare a light jet with a midsize; they are not a price for this city pair, and multiplying one by 1 h 45 leaves out the positioning flight, which on this corridor is frequently the largest single line.
Two things reliably bring it down. A same-day return, because the aircraft and crew stay with you instead of being repositioned twice. And an empty leg, if your dates can bend – traffic between Paris and Iberia is heavy enough that repositioning flights are a daily occurrence in season.
GET A FIRM PRICEThe pattern is corporate and symmetrical: March to June and September to November, busiest early Monday and Tuesday out and late Thursday and Friday home. August in Madrid is genuinely quiet, quieter than most European capitals, and the fortnight around the turn of the year is quiet at both ends.
Two dates deserve early booking. The first is the Paris Air Show, when Le Bourget is effectively committed and the departure end of this route has to be planned around rather than through. The second is the Madrid conference and trade calendar, when the constraint becomes parking at Barajas rather than availability in Paris.
Otherwise short notice is comfortable, and same-day departures are realistic because the pool of aircraft at Le Bourget is the deepest in Europe. What you give up is the choice of cabin, not the flight.
Madrid is often the first stop rather than the only one, and the onward sector costs less arranged together with the outbound – the aircraft and crew are already yours.
Malaga, Ibiza and Palma are short sectors from Madrid, and if the coast is where you are actually going we will say so rather than quote the capital and leave you the drive.
Paris to Ibiza ›An hour or so further, and a common second leg when the week covers both Iberian capitals. Quoted as one trip rather than as two separate charters.
See published routes ›Aircraft reposition between Paris and Iberia constantly through the season, and a good many of those flights carry nobody. Flexible dates are the price of using them.
Current empty legs ›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.