Zurich to Amsterdam by private jet takes about 1 h 10 min over 603 km, Zurich to Amsterdam Schiphol, normally on a light jet. From €5 200 for the whole aircraft, one way. Send the dates and the party size and a written quotation follows inside 30 minutes; the operations desk is answered at any hour on +357 95 119759.
Out of Zurich and into Schiphol in about 1 h 10 - the leg that takes Swiss business north during the week and brings ski parties back down out of the Alps at the end of it, often on the same aircraft. Whole-aircraft charter, empty legs and short-notice departures, arranged at any hour.
REQUEST A QUOTEThe deep end of this pairing is the one you are leaving. EBAA counted 25,866 business-aviation movements at Zurich in 2023 against 14,508 at Amsterdam Schiphol, so a suitable light jet is more likely to be standing at the Swiss end already than to need bringing there - which is the most useful single thing to know about departing this way. Two clocks then decide the day: the Zurich night restriction, which governs the hour you can get away, and the Schiphol slot, which governs the hour you can land. Switzerland is inside Schengen and outside the EU customs union, so what changes on arrival in the Netherlands is the paperwork on what you are carrying, not the check on your passport.
Neither end is a dedicated business-aviation field: both are large scheduled hubs where a private jet is a small customer among the airlines. Leaving Zurich, the question is the hour, because the night restriction is what a departure is agreed against. Landing in the Netherlands, the question is the slot and the stand - which is why the two relief fields below are worth a look before you assume the hub.
| Airport | Codes | Distance | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich | ZRH / LSZH | 603 km | Where the leg starts: the field for the city, the banks and the road down from the Grisons, Valais and the Bernese Oberland. 25,866 business-aviation movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023), which is the reason a suitable light jet is usually already standing here. A night restriction applies, so a late evening departure is settled before you book rather than on the day. |
| Amsterdam Schiphol | AMS / EHAM | arrival | Where the leg ends, and the end that needs the planning. Slot-coordinated, so the landing window is booked in advance rather than picked on the morning, with business aviation handled at its own general aviation terminal. 14,508 business-aviation movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023). Suits you if you are going into Amsterdam itself or connecting onto a long-haul departure. |
| Rotterdam The Hague | RTM / EHRD | arrival alternative | Worth taking instead of the hub when you are heading for Rotterdam, The Hague or the southern Randstad - or simply when you would rather not land into Schiphol's weekday morning wave. |
| Lelystad | LEY / EHLE | arrival alternative | The one to raise if the address you are going to is east of Amsterdam. Give us the dates and we will confirm what can actually be arranged there rather than guess on your behalf. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distance calculated great-circle.
603 km, 326 nautical miles: light-jet work, about 1 h 10 in the air, and every type below covers it with room in hand. Nothing in the flying argues for a larger cabin. The load in the hold does - on the Sunday legs coming down out of the Alps, hard ski bags and boot bags settle the aircraft long before the seat count gets a say.
The workhorse on northern European sectors of this length. Economical over 603 km, and with the hold a party coming off the mountain actually needs, which through the winter is the whole of the argument.
See the Phenom 300 ›Lighter and cheaper, and the sensible answer when a small group has finished in Zurich by lunchtime and is going home the same day with briefcases rather than a week of luggage.
See the Citation CJ2 ›The value choice when the dates are fixed and the trip is short. Over a leg of about 1 h 10 the cruise-speed gap against a newer light jet comes to a handful of minutes.
See the Citation Bravo ›All three types appear on our own fleet pages. Heavier cabins can be arranged for this sector too.
From €5 200 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.
The figure above is a floor and not a fixed price, and we would rather say so than dress it up. What you pay is set by where the aircraft is standing that morning, and on this pairing that varies more than most: one fleet covers the Alps in winter and the Mediterranean in summer, so the February answer and the August answer come from different places.
What is published anywhere is an hourly rate for the class of aircraft, never a price for this sector. Brokers publish EUR 4,600 to 7,300 per hour for European light jets and others quote from EUR 2,900 per hour, both retrieved in 2026. Use those to sanity-check a quotation and not to calculate one: a leg of about 1 h 10 is billed against minimum charges, crew duty and the positioning flight, and a stopwatch has very little to do with it.
Season and direction are what actually move the number. Leaving Zurich in January or February you have the better half of the argument: the light jets are already working the Alps, so nothing has to be flown in empty to collect you and a northbound leg can price well. By August that fleet has gone south, and the positioning flight becomes the line that separates two quotations. If you are coming back inside the day, holding the aircraft normally beats buying two separate one-ways. Send the dates and we will quote against them.
Alpine first, corporate second, which is an odd shape for a link between two northern business cities - the ski traffic is what does it. Read the table from this direction: the weeks that fill the southbound legs on a Friday fill the northbound ones on Sunday evening, and the Zurich night restriction is waiting at exactly that hour.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| December to March | The Alpine season and the peak of the pairing. Going this way the crush is the end of the weekend rather than the start of it: parties come down from the Grisons, the Valais and the Bernese Oberland and all want to be off the ground inside the same couple of hours. | Three to four weeks out for a Sunday. Name the hour you want to leave and not only the date - stands and handling slots go before the aircraft do, and the night restriction closes the back end of the evening. |
| April to May | The quietest stretch of the year. The snow has gone, the summer traffic has not started, and the fleet is repositioning between the Alps and the south. | The best window in the year for an empty leg running towards the Netherlands, and the cheapest time to fly this direction if the dates can move. |
| June to September | The secondary peak: summer in the Alps and Swiss corporate travel arriving together, with Zurich also feeding traffic towards the Mediterranean. | Two to three weeks for a fixed date. Friday afternoon is the pinch point in both directions, so ask early if that is when you have to travel. |
| October to November | Business only. Finance and pharma, largely Tuesday to Thursday, with no leisure load on top of it. | A week is normally enough. Ask for an early departure out of Zurich: arriving at Schiphol ahead of the morning wave is easier than arriving into it. |
Schiphol is a connecting point at least as often as it is an end point. The aircraft that brings you in can carry straight on, and the sectors below are routes we already fly.
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Amsterdam to Nice ›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.