Saint-Tropez to Ibiza is 644 km and about 1 h 14 in the air on a light jet, La Môle to Ibiza. The sector is undemanding. Getting airborne from the gulf is the part that needs arranging: there is no runway lighting at La Môle, so nothing departs once the light has gone; the usable landing distance of roughly 930 m caps the size of aeroplane that could have arrived there in the first place; and the crew must hold an access authorisation for the valley. Indicative floor from €5 800 for the whole aircraft, one way. A written quotation follows inside 30 minutes; +357 95 119759 is answered at any hour.
An hour and a quarter west along the Mediterranean, from one summer port to another. The flying asks nothing of anybody. What shapes the day is the hour you intend to leave the gulf, and whether the aeroplane you want is permitted to be standing there when you do.
REQUEST A QUOTEThis is a page about a departure rather than about a flight. Six hundred and forty-four kilometres between two ports of the same season is a commute for a light jet, and nothing in the cruise deserves a paragraph. Everything worth knowing happens before engine start. The valley field runs on daylight, on a modest runway and on a permission the crew has to carry, which together mean the aeroplane taking you west was allowed to land there earlier in the week and is leaving before dusk. The Balearic end is the straightforward half, with one August caveat of its own: slots.
A single field at the Balearic end and three to choose from on the French side. The choice is not a matter of taste: party size, luggage and the hour you want to be airborne make it for you.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Môle Saint-Tropez | LTT / LFTZ | departure, when it fits | Roughly 930 m of usable landing distance, no lighting on the runway and therefore daylight hours only, and an authorisation the crew must hold for the valley. Light jets and turboprops work here routinely; larger cabins and after-dark departures do not. Parking is finite too, so the aircraft that flies you out has frequently not been sitting here waiting for you. |
| Ibiza | IBZ / LEIB | arrival | The island field, where business-aviation handling runs alongside a very heavy summer schedule. Slots are the August constraint, and at this end that mostly shapes the arrival time you are offered rather than whether the trip happens. |
| Nice Côte d’Azur | NCE / LFMN | the departure that always works | It accepts any aircraft and it operates at night, which is the whole reason it belongs on this page. The cost is about an hour and twenty on the road from Saint-Tropez in summer traffic, and considerably more than that on an August Saturday. If there are eight of you, or the luggage is a week’s worth, or you want to leave after dinner, this is the truthful answer and you will hear it before you book rather than afterwards. |
| Cannes Mandelieu | CEQ / LFMD | middle option | A shorter drive than Nice, and still less convenient than the valley. It carries size limits of its own, so more often than not it solves the hour without solving the aeroplane. |
The runway figure, the absence of lighting and the crew authorisation requirement at La Môle are published aerodrome facts. Road times are typical summer running times and can be far longer on a Saturday in August.
An hour and a quarter is within reach of almost anything with wings. The field is not. Here the aeroplane is chosen by the runway you intend to leave from, and that alone is why the list below is a short one.
Among the types most often seen at the valley field. Up to seven seats, with performance that suits both the approach and the short landing distance – which is what makes it available for your departure as well as for the arrival that brought you down.
Phenom 300 ›Smaller still, and the simpler answer for four to six people carrying what a real holiday generates rather than the overnight bag of a business trip.
Citation CJ2 ›With a party of eight, or a departure after dark, the sensible trip becomes a car to Nice and a midsize cabin from there. Slower on paper, and the version that actually takes place.
Citation XLS+ ›From €5 800 one way, whole aircraft. That is our own indicative floor for this city pair, published in both directions, and it is not a quotation.
The arithmetic is on the table rather than behind it. Two hours are charged, because a two-hour minimum applies to a sector this short, at €2 900 an hour – the published starting rate for the cabin class (Eurosky, 19.02.2026) – rounded down. We publish that instead of a route tariff because no price for this pairing has reached us from a source we would be willing to reprint. And through July and August the sector is sold on what physically exists on the day rather than off a rate card, so any printed figure would be stale within a week of appearing.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, this route | Saint-Tropez to Ibiza | from €5 800 | Our own floor, not a quotation: 2.00 h charged (a two-hour minimum applies) × 2 900 EUR/h, the published starting rate for the cabin class (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), rounded down |
| Hourly rate, light jets | Europe | 4,600 – 7,300 EUR per hour | Broker published range, undated, retrieved 2026 |
| Hourly rate, from | Europe | from 2,900 EUR per hour | Broker published rate, 19.02.2026 |
| Hourly rate, quoted in dollars | Light jets | 3,750 – 4,200 USD per hour | Broker published range, August 2026 |
| Empty leg | varies with the day | brokers publish discounts of 50 – 75% | Broker price pages, retrieved 2026 |
Two forces set the number you are actually quoted, and the hour in the air is neither of them. August is the first: both ends peak simultaneously, and an aeroplane already working the western Mediterranean is cheaper to use than one that has to be flown in for you. Parking is the second. Space in the gulf is limited, and an aircraft rarely waits around for your departure date – which means a positioning flight into the valley on the morning you leave, and that flight sits in your bill whether or not you are aboard for it.
The same structure is where the savings hide. Ask us what is already repositioning in your direction: this corridor produces empty legs all season, and taking one means accepting the operator’s date and roughly the operator’s hour in return for the discount.
Apart from our own floor, every figure above is a third-party published rate, reprinted so you can sanity-check a quotation – ours included. They are not our prices. The only price we stand behind is the written one against your dates.
GET A FIRM PRICEA summer route in the strict sense, with one unusual property: both ends are busiest in the same weeks. That is excellent news for empty legs and bad news for everything else.
| Period | What happens | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| June to September | Peak at both ends. Parking in the gulf and slots on the island are the two constraints, and since they have nothing to do with each other, both have to be solved separately | Book the dates early and raise parking in your first message rather than your last |
| Saturdays in August | The hardest days of the year on this pairing, whichever way you are travelling | Move to a midweek departure if the plan tolerates it, or accept the road to Nice and a later lift |
| May and October | The shoulder. Availability is good, everything is still open, and quotations come back much closer to the floor printed above | Any slack in your dates is best spent here |
| November to April | Services in the valley thin out sharply and the reason to be in the gulf thins out with them | Ask us what is genuinely open on your date before you build a plan around it |
One habit is worth more than every other piece of advice on this page: give us the hour you want to be wheels-up, not just the day. Daylight is a hard wall at the French end, and through September it moves earlier week by week. «Thursday, we would like to be in Ibiza for dinner» produces a plan. «Thursday» produces a plan we have to rebuild.
Ibiza is seldom where the summer stops. The next sector is easier to arrange alongside this one than after it.
The shortest hop in the Balearics and the usual second island. Quoted together with this leg rather than separately, because the aeroplane is already on the spot.
Ibiza to Palma de Mallorca ›The mainland connection, and the common shape when the islands were the holiday and the city is the route home.
Ibiza to Barcelona ›The long way back, and a sector we publish in its own right. Worth naming at the enquiry if the return date is already fixed.
Ibiza to London ›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.