Porto to London Biggin Hill is 1,304 km and about 2 h 03 in the air, and there is remarkably little else to tell you about the flying. Porto has one runway of 3,480 m at 69 m above the sea, eleven kilometres from the middle of the city, and nothing we would put on a two-hour sector comes close to needing it. Biggin Hill at the other end is chosen for the road journey after it rather than for anything aeronautical. What is left to get right is the ordinary part – the cabin, the hour, the car – and that is the part clients actually feel. Written quotation inside 30 minutes; +357 95 119759 is answered at any hour.
Two hours from the Atlantic coast to a business-aviation field on the Kent side of London, with no terminal, no connection and no crossing of the city at the end of it. Whole aircraft, single seats and repositioning flights, arranged around the clock.
REQUEST A QUOTEOf everything we publish into Biggin Hill, this is the uncomplicated one. It is neither Alpine nor Mediterranean, the runway at the Portuguese end imposes nothing, there is no second airport to argue about and no wind story attached to the approach. Porto as a city – what people go there for and what they do when they arrive – belongs on our London to Porto page. This one is about the morning you leave it.
Distance is the great-circle figure between airport coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset. The flight time is an estimate from a model fitted to the block times this website publishes itself, and it is not a measured time.
One departure with nothing to decide and one arrival chosen entirely on the ground rather than in the air. If the aeroplane that suits your party is not standing at Biggin Hill on the morning, we will say so and price the alternative rather than quietly move you into a smaller cabin to keep the airport.
| Field | Codes | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porto Francisco Sa Carneiro | OPO / LPPR | Departure | Eleven kilometres north-west of central Porto and 69 m above the sea, with a single asphalt runway of 3,480 m. There is no second field worth comparing and no performance question to answer. The only thing worth naming at this end is the hour, because it is the hour that sets what the day at the London end looks like. |
| London Biggin Hill | BQH / EGKB | Arrival | South-east of London. The whole argument for it is the drive you do not do: from the City, Kent or Surrey it spares you the crossing of London that a northern or western field asks for, and on a two-hour flight that saving is a real share of the door-to-door time. Tell us the address you are going to and the hour you want to be on the ground. |
| The London alternatives | LTN / EGGW, FAB / EGLF | If the aircraft is elsewhere | Where the aeroplane sits on the morning can outweigh the drive. If the right cabin is at Luton or Farnborough rather than Biggin Hill, we put the trade to you plainly: a few more minutes of road against the cabin you actually wanted. It is your call, and it should be made before the quotation rather than after it. |
Airport coordinates, codes and elevation: OurAirports open dataset. Runway dimensions and surface are published aerodrome facts. What can be arranged at either end on a given date is confirmed with the operator and the handling agent rather than assumed from this table.
Nothing on this sector is decided by performance. Two hours northbound with luggage is within the comfortable reach of every type below, so the honest question is how many of you there are and how long you want to be sitting.
A light jet and entirely at ease over two hours. Comfortable for four to six, and usually the easiest of the three to place at short notice.
Phenom 300 ›Midsize with stand-up height. The difference is one you notice on the second hour rather than the first, which is precisely the hour this sector has.
Citation XLS+ ›Super-midsize, for a larger group or for a working flight with a table. Ask for it when the two hours have to earn their keep.
Challenger 350 ›Cabin dimensions and range by type are on the aircraft pages. Larger cabins fly the sector as readily; at this distance the decision is comfort and cost rather than capability.
We publish no price for this pair, in either direction. There is no figure here to quote back at us and there will not be one, because the number is set by things a distance cannot see: the aeroplane, where it starts its day, what it is asked to do next, and the fees at both ends.
On a two-hour sector the single largest item is the one people ask about last. Did the aircraft come down to Portugal with you and wait, or is it being flown in empty this morning to collect you and flown home again afterwards? A jet that has sat three days on the apron at Porto is a different commercial proposition from one that turns straight round, and the difference is not a rounding item. Tell us which shape your trip has and the quotation stops being a guess.
The second item is what the aircraft does after Biggin Hill. If it is released there it costs one thing; if it must return south it costs another. We quote both ways when the dates make it a genuine choice, and we would rather set that out before you book than explain it afterwards.
It is also worth asking what is already moving. Repositioning flights follow dates rather than routes, so if any day in your plan can bend, say which one. Current empty legs are published and change constantly.
A price on this route means a written quotation from Diamond Executive Aero Services against your own dates, normally within 30 minutes of your enquiry. The operations desk is on duty 24/7 on +357 95 119759.
GET A FIRM PRICEWe have no measured seasonal pattern for this corridor and are not going to invent one for the sake of a tidy table. What we can tell you is which decisions on this route are worth making early, because on a sector with no runway question and no weather story those decisions are the whole of the booking.
| Decision | Why it matters here | When to settle it |
|---|---|---|
| Wait or return | On a two-hour sector this moves the price more than anything else. Holding the aircraft and crew in Portugal for your stay and turning it straight round are two different purchases | At the enquiry, before a type is chosen. It changes which operators can even bid |
| The London field | Biggin Hill earns its place on the drive at the end. If the cabin you want is standing at another London field that morning, the trade is road time against cabin | At the enquiry. Give us the destination address rather than the airport name |
| The hour out of Porto | The departure hour, not the date, is what determines whether the day still works at the London end | With the dates. A morning and an evening departure are not the same trip |
| A flexible day | Repositioning flights follow dates, not city pairs. One movable day is worth more than any amount of notice | Whenever it exists. Tell us which day it is |
Booking both legs together, where the trip has two, lets the operator plan the aeroplane's week properly, and that planning is usually visible in the number rather than only in the schedule.
Biggin Hill is a departure field as much as an arrival one, and a second sector arranged alongside the first generally costs less added than bought separately later.
The short continental sector asked for most often out of the Kent side of London, and the one most likely to be bolted onto an arrival from Iberia.
Biggin Hill to Geneva ›South to the Cote d'Azur. The summer continuation, and worth quoting at the same time as the inbound rather than a week afterwards.
Biggin Hill to Nice ›The Alpine one, with a runway of its own to consider and a winter surface. A different kind of booking from this sector entirely.
Biggin Hill to Chambery ›Going back the other way later? The outbound leg is published as Biggin Hill to Porto, and the city end is covered on London to Porto.
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.