Private jet charter in Costa Rica

Costa Rica lies 4,878 nautical miles from a London airfield, which is inside the reach of a single long-range jet and a long way outside the comfortable reach of every mid-size one. Private Jets UK plans these trips from the beach or the meeting backwards to the departure slot. Our customers have access to 6,500 jets of all types and configurations available for rent. We will help you choose the best option based on your needs and objectives. Our catalog contains the models from the largest manufacturers: Gulfstream, Dassault, Embraer, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Learjet, Cessna, Beechcraft, Pilatus, HondaJet, etc. We have established partnerships with the world's largest airlines and VIP terminals, which means we can offer you favourable flight conditions and a high level of service. Our experts will manage the organization of your flight - starting with paperwork, agreements, etc., and ending with a transfer and meeting at the airport. Our company provides a full range of business aviation and concierge services. In Costa Rica that means a choice between two gateways about ninety nautical miles apart, a private terminal at San Jose airport with customs and immigration on site, and a realistic conversation about where the aircraft will park in the high season.

 

 

At your request, the aviation consultants of Private Jets UK will help you choose the jet with the suitable technical parameters (production year, flight hours, and home base). The cost of the private jet charter in Costa Rica depends on many factors, such as the model of the business jet, the number of passengers, departure and destination airports, type of flight, duration of parking, additional services, etc. Therefore, we calculate the price of each order individually taking into account your wishes. You can use an online calculator to get an instant charter quote. Please indicate your real contact details to get the final calculation.

You can calculate the cost of your flight in several ways:

• using an online calculator on the website (however, it shows only the approximate price);
• via Messenger (WhatsApp or Telegram);
• by landline or cell phone;
• via e-mail (jets@private-jets.co.uk).

 

 

Please note that the above-mentioned price is indicative only. It is calculated on this basis: a departure from Farnborough, a Dassault Falcon 900LX to Juan Santamaria International Airport near San Jose with one technical stop in the Azores, and two passengers aboard. If you want to get a personal quote, just fill out the online booking form below. Our aviation consultant will make the calculation within 20 minutes, and then contact you to specify the details of the flight.

 

How long does it take to fly to Costa Rica?

The answer depends on how many stops the aircraft needs. A Falcon 900LX is published at about 4,750 nautical miles, the line from Farnborough to San Jose is 4,878, so the jet flies two legs through Santa Maria in the Azores, 1,400 nautical miles and then 3,709, together 231 more than the straight line. The long second leg leaves a margin of about 1,041 nautical miles against the published range. A Global 6000 or a Gulfstream flies the whole way. Costa Rica keeps UTC-6 all year with no daylight saving, so it is six hours behind Britain in winter and seven hours behind from late March to late October. The times below are westbound, against the usual wind, and count flying time only:

The exact flight time depends on the model of the business jet, as well as the speed of the tail or head wind. Our consultant will make a detailed calculation of the flight time for the chosen business jet.

 

 

Prices for the private jet flights to Costa Rica

Typical private jet charter prices from Britain to Costa Rica, listed cheapest first. The Falcon 900LX rows have one technical stop in the Azores, and the Global and Gulfstream rows cross in a single flight. One row shows the same flight to the Pacific side:

 

 

Private jet flights within Costa Rica and to its neighbours

Inside the country the geography decides the aircraft. Only three airports can take a business jet and clear customs: San Jose, Liberia and, on the Caribbean side, Limon. The beach and jungle airstrips are short, many are grass, and the airlines and air taxis that serve them fly turboprops. A foreign-registered jet must first land at an airport of entry before using one, and a temporary import request can take seven to eight business days, so the practical answer is a local charter operator. The table prices each sector with the aircraft a jet broker would normally put on it:

 

 

We can arrange the flights from any cities in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and European countries. Due to a large database of available business jets, we can help you find an optimal jet and crew. If you have any questions about the departure or the flight itself, you can ask them using the form below:

 

 

Prices depending on the type of business jet

We can clearly show the high dependence of the cost of the flight, on the type of aircraft - we have collected approximate data, at the price of 1 flight hour, for various types of business jets:

 

 

The cost per hour indicated in the table is preliminary and does not constitute an offer or a commercial offer. Exact prices are available from the managers of the company.

 

Online Calculator

If you want to make an urgent calculation of the cost of a private plane flight, use our online calculator. Just fill in all the fields of the form with a note that you are interested in a specific model of the aircraft and get the final price. NB! - the figures are sent to you by email or messenger, please carefully fill in the contact details to get the calculation.

All our calculations are as transparent as possible for you. After receiving the request, we will prepare a beautiful offer - where the costs and the final price will be clearly described. The exact price is agreed in advance and is written in the contract, so you can be sure of the final cost.

 

 

Private jets are ready to take off

Our database contains over 6,500 business jets (about 3,500 in Europe and 3,000 in the rest of the world) of different configurations and production years. The list of models is constantly updated. Unfortunately, we can't post a full list of available jets on our website due to confidentiality issues. Please contact the managers of the company for more accurate information. We will help you choose a suitable model taking into account your wishes. These are the typical choices for Costa Rica:

 

 

Because the crossing is long and parking is short in the high season, we usually name two things in the quote: the aircraft that brings you from Britain, and what it does afterwards. It can wait, go home empty, or reposition to Florida, and each of those choices changes the price.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Costa Rica in 6 easy steps:

1. Flight request - indicating the route and your preferences for the model of business jet and other points.
2. Coordination of flight details - our consultant will contact you to offer the possible flight options and answer all your questions.
3. Commercial offer - we will send you a final offer on a specific model taking into account all your wishes.
4. Signing of the contract.
5. Payment for the flight and booking a business jet.
6. Departure at the agreed time and date. Assistance during the whole flight.

In addition to renting the private jets and arranging the flights, we provide concierge services, premium transfer, security, exclusive catering, etc. We have learned to solve problems of any complexity, offering the service of the European level. Our experts will be happy to answer your questions and help you arrange your flight.

 

How to rent a business jet with a crew

5 main stages:

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  Sending an application

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  Clarification of details and search for options

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  Preparation and coordination of optimal options

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  Registration of documents. Payment of the invoice.

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  Departure on the route.

 

Business aviation airports in Costa Rica

Costa Rica has four airports of entry and only two of them matter to a private jet from Britain. San Jose and Liberia are 90 nautical miles apart, one in the central valley and one on the Pacific side, and the choice between them is the main decision of the whole trip. The table lists both, with the fields a crew looks at around them:

 

Four points settle most arrivals before a quote goes out:

 

Arriving from Britain: passports, customs and what to carry

A private flight from London arrives as an international flight, and everyone aboard clears customs and immigration at the airport of entry on the day.

 

 

Which airport for which part of Costa Rica

As a rule the northern Pacific beaches belong to Liberia, and everything south and east belongs to San Jose. These are the usual pairings:

 

Costa Rica: what our clients go for

Nature comes first, and it is meant literally. The country has a Caribbean coast to the east and a Pacific coast to the west, a spine of volcanoes between them and a highest point, Cerro Chirripo, of 3,819 metres. Corcovado National Park on the Osa peninsula is the only park where all four of the country's monkey species live.

Beach resorts come second. The Papagayo Gulf near Liberia holds a cluster of large hotels, and the coast to the south of it has surf towns. They fill with US-registered private aircraft in the winter, and a British party arriving in the same weeks learns that parking is part of the booking.

Business is the third reason, and a smaller one: the economy rests on medical instruments, pharmaceuticals, software, financial outsourcing and ecotourism.

The country has about five million people, Spanish is the official language and the currency is the colon. There has been no standing army since the 1940s, which Costa Ricans mention with some pride, and controllers and FBO staff work in English.

 

The year in Costa Rica: a dry winter peak and a green season

The year divides by rainfall rather than by temperature, and the calendar of visitors follows the rain:

 

The Costa Rican calendar: fiestas, festivals and oxcarts

The Costa Rican year runs on town fiestas, national holidays and a handful of festivals:

 

 

Flying to Costa Rica with a dog or a cat

A dog or cat travels in the cabin, and on the Costa Rican side the rules are lighter than the paperwork suggests. The harder part is the way home, because Britain treats Costa Rica more strictly than it treats the countries of the EU, and that is where the timeline is set.

• A microchip. Costa Rica does not require one, but Britain does for the return, so every animal flying with us is chipped before any other step;
• A rabies vaccination, given after the microchip and no earlier than the age of 12 weeks, with the vaccine make, batch and date on the certificate;
• A veterinary health certificate issued by a licensed vet within two weeks before departure, with the parasite treatments recorded. The form and any official endorsement that the Costa Rican authorities expect are confirmed with the handler for your animal before travel;
• A word with the operator. We confirm in writing the airport of entry, the inspection on arrival and what happens to the animal while the party clears customs.

The way home is where the planning starts. Costa Rica does not appear among the countries that Britain lists for lighter pet rules, so we treat it as a non-listed country. An animal then needs a microchip, a rabies vaccination at least 21 days before travel, a blood sample taken at least 30 days after the vaccination and sent to an EU-approved laboratory with a result of at least 0.5 IU/ml, and a wait of three months from the date of that sample. A dog must also be treated against tapeworm by a vet no less than 24 hours and no more than 120 hours before landing in Britain. An animal that does not meet the rules can be refused or held in quarantine for up to four months.

In practice the blood test is done in Britain months before the trip, and we confirm with the Animal and Plant Health Agency, before the booking is accepted, how the British paperwork carries the animal home after a short stay. If it does not, a dog cannot make a short trip, and we say so at the quote stage.

Rules for other species, and for countries where the timeline runs to months, are set out on our flying with pets guide.

 

 

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Costa Rica produces them in both directions, because a stay is mostly one-way work for the aircraft: it brings a party across the water and has to find its next client somewhere else.

A client who can give a window of a few days has a far better chance of a match, though the operator owns the date and a leg can disappear when the original booking changes. Whatever is free is listed on our empty legs page. A selection of Costa Rican empty legs follows:

 

 

 

Helicopter charter and air tours

Helijet Costa Rica lists private charters, transfers and scenic flights from a heliport a few minutes from the Liberia airport, covering Guanacaste and the Nicoya peninsula and further afield on request.

For the central valley a helicopter is a real alternative to a turboprop only where the airstrip is far from the hotel. San Jose to Quepos is 35 nautical miles and San Jose to the Arenal area 37, which a helicopter covers in about 25 minutes each way, against 40 minutes by PC-12 including the taxi and the climb.

 

 

Flights from the UK to Costa Rica

We fly this corridor from every British airfield in the list below, and the price table higher up covers thirteen of those pairings. Our clients have access to all airports of the UK and Europe. Due to the unique partnership conditions, we can offer our clients the best prices for business aviation services. Our experts will consult you on the availability of private jets in a particular city and help you choose the best option.

 

List of TOP 25 business aviation airports:

 

Costa Rican charters from the booking notes: six typical trips

Six typical jobs put together from booking notes with the particulars changed, so none describes one named client or date.

 

Frequently asked questions about flying to Costa Rica