Venice to London is 1,169 km and about 1 h 53 in the air, out of Marco Polo and into Luton, Farnborough or Biggin Hill on a light to midsize jet. The unusual part of this departure happens before the airport: Marco Polo sits on the edge of the lagoon at Tessera, and the sensible way to reach it from the centre is the water taxi to the dock a short walk from the terminal. Indicative price from €5 400 for the whole aircraft, one way: our own floor rather than a quotation, and we print the sum it is built from instead of asking you to take it on trust. Written quotation inside 30 minutes; the operations desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.
Under two hours north-west, over the Alps and across France, into whichever London field is actually nearest to you. Tell us the hotel as well as the date – on this route the boat is part of the schedule, not an afterthought.
REQUEST A QUOTEVenice does not have a season so much as a series of events, and a departure is easy or hard depending entirely on which week you are leaving in. Carnival in February, the Biennale from spring into autumn, the film festival at the turn of August and September, and weddings scattered around all of them. In the crowded weeks the constraint at Marco Polo is handling capacity and ramp space rather than the supply of aircraft – which means the aeroplane that takes you home has frequently flown in that morning to do it. Luton logged 26,661 business-aviation movements in 2023 and Venice Marco Polo 6,580, so on this pairing the aircraft is far more often an English one than an Italian one.
One departure that is really a transfer decision, and three arrivals in London that differ by an hour on the road rather than by minutes in the air.
| Airport | Codes | Great-circle to London | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Marco Polo | VCE / LIPZ | 1,169 km | The departure, and the reason people remember this route. The field is built on the rim of the lagoon at Tessera, and a water taxi will carry you from the landing stage outside your hotel to a dock within a short walk of the terminal – no causeway, no car park, no trolley. In 2023 Marco Polo saw 6,580 business-aviation movements. |
| Treviso | — | the fallback | Thirty kilometres or so inland. It earns its place on two occasions: when Marco Polo cannot take you at the hour you need, and when the party has been staying out in the Veneto rather than on the water. The price of it is a car journey – the very thing Marco Polo spares you – so we raise it only when it genuinely improves the day, and we tell you what it costs in ground time when we do. |
| London Luton | LTN / EGGW | 1,169 km | The default arrival and the field this page is measured to. About fifty kilometres north of central London, with the widest choice of aircraft on the day – which matters on this pairing, because the aeroplane almost always starts in England rather than in Italy. Luton recorded 26,661 business-aviation movements in 2023. |
| Farnborough | FAB / EGLF | a little further | No scheduled traffic passes through it at all, which is why you clear it faster than either of the others. The sector from Venice is fractionally longer and you will not notice. The field to choose for Surrey, Hampshire and the Thames Valley. |
| London Biggin Hill | BQH / EGKB | a little shorter | On the south-eastern rim of the capital, which makes it marginally nearest to Venice – a fact of no practical importance. Its value is on the ground: for anyone bound for south London, the City or Kent it takes the crossing of London out of the journey altogether. |
Codes and coordinates come from the open OurAirports dataset as retrieved on 23 August 2026, and the movement counts are EBAA’s for 2023, reported by Private Jet Card Comparisons on 4 June 2024. Where the alternative fields are concerned we give relative distances rather than numbers, for the plain reason that we have not measured them against that dataset and would rather say so.
At 1,169 km nothing in this class is stretched, so range decides nothing. Luggage does, and it decides more going home than it did coming out.
Six to eight seats, 2.27 cubic metres of luggage space and 3,650 km of range – better than twice what this sector demands. It is also the fastest of the three to secure when time is short, which is why its name comes up first in festival week.
Embraer Phenom 300 ›Seven or eight seats, headroom to stand, and at 2.55 cubic metres the biggest hold here. People leave this city heavier than they entered it, and on that account the luggage space gives out well before the seating does.
Cessna Citation XLS+ ›Six to eight seats, a proper galley, a lavatory of its own. With 5,463 km in the tanks it is barely stretching on a sector like this – which is the argument for it when the party is continuing somewhere else rather than going straight home.
Hawker 800XP ›Each of the three has a page of its own in our fleet. Bigger cabins work this sector often enough during the festivals, when parties move as one group instead of splitting up.
From €5 400 one way for the whole aircraft. That is our own floor and not a quotation, and here is precisely how it is arrived at.
Nobody has published a price for this city pair from a source we would be willing to reprint, so rather than borrow one we show the sum. The flight time on this page is 1 h 53 – 113 minutes, or 1.8833 hours. At €2 900 an hour, the lower of the published entry rates for this cabin class in the table below, that comes to €5 462 to the nearest euro, and we round it down to €5 400. Check it on a calculator if you like; that is the point of printing it. Note what the sum is made of: a flight time and a cabin class, neither of which changes when the aeroplane turns round, which is why the same floor stands on the London-to-Venice page.
What the floor is not is a forecast of your quotation, because on this route the week matters far more than the mileage. Ask about an ordinary Tuesday in April and the answer sits near the references below. Ask about the second of September and it will not, because three things give way at once: demand concentrates on identical dates, Marco Polo’s handling reaches its ceiling, and a parking stand stops being something you assume and becomes something you apply for.
That last item is the one to ask us about, and leaving Venice it has a particular shape. If the aeroplane could not stand at Marco Polo while you were here, it did not wait – it will fly in to collect you, and that sector is part of your bill. Out of season, an aircraft that stayed with you for two or three nights is usually the cheaper arrangement precisely because it avoids two empty repositioning legs. Tell us the whole shape of the trip in the first message and we will price both rather than assume one.
| Reference | Applies to | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, one way | Our own floor for this cabin class and this flight time | from approx. 5,400 EUR | 1.8833 h (113 min) x 2,900 EUR/h, the entry rate in the row below, giving 5,462 and rounded down. Not a quotation |
| Hourly rate, light to midsize | Europe, the cabin class rather than this route | 4,600 – 9,700 EUR per hour | Broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Hourly rate, light to midsize | Europe, from | from 2,900 – 3,500 EUR per hour | Broker entry-level rate, 19.02.2026 |
| Hourly rate, light to midsize | Europe, guide | 3,750 – 4,600 USD per hour | Paramount Business Jets, published hourly guide, August 2026 |
| Empty leg | varies with the day | brokers publish discounts of 50 – 75% | Broker price pages, all retrieved 23.08.2026 |
Our own floor aside, every figure above is a third-party published hourly rate describing a class of aeroplane rather than this sector, reproduced so that you can audit a quotation – ours as readily as anybody’s. None of them binds anyone. And note what the floor does not contain: the crew day, the landing and handling at either end and, in the crowded weeks, the parking all sit on top of it, which is why a floor is a starting point and never an estimate of your actual bill. Only a written quotation from Diamond Executive Aero Services, against your dates, is a price. Call +357 95 119759, 24/7.
Knowing which week you are leaving in tells you more about this route than knowing the month does.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| February – Carnival | Ten days that fill the city and with it every hotel landing stage and every handling slot at Marco Polo. The traffic arrives from all over Europe and leaves again inside the same few days, so the departures crowd as hard as the arrivals. | Four to six weeks. Fix the departure window before you settle the aircraft type, and expect the aeroplane to be flying in for you rather than waiting. |
| May to July – the Biennale | Art one year, architecture the next, and either way an exhibition that runs from spring through to autumn. What it produces is a long, level current of traffic rather than a spike, with the wedding season layered over it. | A fortnight of notice will generally do. Of the whole Venetian year this is the stretch that is easiest to leave from and easiest to plan around. |
| Late August to early September – the film festival | The hardest week of the year on this route. The departures concentrate into forty-eight hours at the end of it, and ramp parking at Marco Polo is the binding constraint rather than aircraft supply. | Six weeks where you can. Tell us the hour you can actually leave the Lido and we will work forwards from the boat rather than backwards from the aeroplane. |
| November to January | The quiet end of the year, and where the softest numbers are. Two local phenomena matter here: fog over the lagoon, which is an operational factor rather than a picturesque one, and acqua alta, which complicates getting to the aeroplane rather than the flight itself. | Booking late works. Leave some slack around any tight connection at the London end, and take the weather briefing from us rather than guessing at it from a forecast. |
The seasonal reading is ours, taken from routes_shortlist.csv in Diamond Executive Aero Services route research dated 23 August 2026. For the wider European summer pattern see EUROCONTROL, Trends in Air Traffic vol. 1, "Getting to the Point: Business Aviation in Europe". Movement counts are EBAA’s for 2023.
For a good number of parties London is a change of aeroplane rather than the end of the week, and the second sector is cheaper quoted with this one than booked after it.
1,005 km and about 1 h 41 back into northern Italy, and the usual shape when the trip has a second Italian half a fortnight later.
London to Milan ›380 km and about 54 minutes across the Channel, the shortest sector we publish out of London and the commonest continuation of all.
London to Paris ›1,488 km and about 2 h 17 south, published in its own right with its own airport notes. Worth naming at the enquiry if the next dates are already fixed.
London to Rome ›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.