Private jet charter in Panama

Between London and the Panama Canal lie 4,734 nautical miles of open Atlantic and Caribbean, and the only real question a client has to settle is whether the jet makes a stop on the way. Private Jets UK builds these trips around that answer, and then around the day at the other end. 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 Panama that means a private terminal at Tocumen, a second city airport five minutes from downtown, and a landing permit that has to be requested well before the aircraft leaves Britain.

 

 

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 Panama 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 Tocumen International Airport in Panama City 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 Panama?

It depends on whether the aircraft can cross in one hop. A Falcon 900LX is published at about 4,750 nautical miles, and the line from Farnborough to Panama City is 4,734, which leaves nothing in hand against a westbound wind. So the Falcon flies two legs through Santa Maria in the Azores, 1,400 nautical miles and then 3,510, together 176 nautical miles more than the straight line, and the second leg keeps about 1,240 nautical miles of range in reserve. A Global 6000 or a Gulfstream covers the whole distance without landing. Panama keeps UTC-5 all year with no daylight saving, so it is five hours behind Britain in winter and six 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 Panama

Typical private jet charter prices from Britain to Panama City, 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:

 

 

Private jet flights within Panama and to its neighbours

Panama is a narrow country, and almost everything a private client wants lies within an hour of the capital. A foreign-registered jet with a domestic leg needs a conventional permit with hard copies sent to the civil aviation authority six working days ahead, so for hops inside the country a local operator with a turboprop is usually the practical answer. 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 Panama:

 

 

The quote names the aircraft that brings you from Britain and what it does afterwards: wait at Tocumen, go home empty or reposition to Florida. Each choice changes the price.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Panama 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:

• 

  Sending an application

• 

  Clarification of details and search for options

• 

  Preparation and coordination of optimal options

• 

  Registration of documents. Payment of the invoice.

• 

  Departure on the route.

 

Business aviation airports in Panama

Panama has two city airports that matter to a jet from Britain and a handful of regional ones. Tocumen and Albrook are only 12 nautical miles apart, and the choice between them depends on the aircraft and on who is waiting at the other end. The table lists 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, immigration and quarantine at the airport of entry.

 

 

Which airport for which part of Panama

Most trips begin in the capital and fan out from there by turboprop or boat. These are the usual pairings:

 

Panama: what our clients go for

The Canal comes first, and it is as much a business reason as a sightseeing one. The waterway is 83 kilometres long and was completed early in the twentieth century, and the Miraflores locks on the Pacific side have a visitor centre with a museum and a ship simulator that shows a crossing.

The city is the second reason. Panama City is the financial centre of the country, with about 80 banks and a skyline that has more than a hundred towers, and it produces roughly 55 percent of national output. Panama Viejo, the ruins of the city founded in the sixteenth century and destroyed in the seventeenth, and the Casco Viejo district rebuilt afterwards are listed by UNESCO.

Islands and mountains come third. Bocas del Toro and the more than 350 San Blas islands lie on the Caribbean, the Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama, and Coiba, the largest island in the country, is a national park. Inland, Volcan Baru reaches 3,474 metres and Boquete grows coffee on its slopes.

The country has about 4.6 million people, Spanish is the official language and the balboa is fixed one to one to the US dollar, which is also legal tender and is the paper money in everyday use.

 

The year in Panama: a dry winter and a long green season

Temperatures hardly move over the year, so the calendar of visitors follows the rain:

 

The Panamanian calendar: carnival, coffee and a month of independence days

Panama's year runs on town fairs, patron-saint festivals and a cluster of national holidays in November:

 

 

Flying to Panama with a dog or a cat

A dog or cat travels in the cabin, and on the Panamanian side the paperwork is a matter of certificates and timing. The harder part is the way home, because Britain does not list Panama among the countries with lighter rules, and that is where the timeline is set.

• A microchip. Panama does not make it a condition of entry, 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. For cats the British export certificate for Panama asks for the vaccine not less than 30 days and not more than 12 months before export;
• A British export health certificate for Panama, signed by an official veterinarian after an examination within 48 hours before export and legalised by the Legalisation Office. We check the current form for a dog before the booking is confirmed;
• 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. Panama does not appear in the table of listed countries on the British government site, so we treat it as a country that is not listed. 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, a wait of three months from the date of that sample, and a Great Britain pet health certificate. 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. Panama 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 Panamanian empty legs follows:

 

 

 

Helicopter charter and air tours

Helicopters can be chartered directly from Panama City, for a transfer or a flight to the Pearl Islands, which is the most expensive way to reach them.

A helicopter earns its fee only where the road or the sea is slow. Albrook to Contadora is 39 nautical miles and Albrook to Rio Hato 51, which a helicopter covers in about 30 and 35 minutes respectively, against 20 to 30 minutes for a scheduled turboprop to Contadora plus the wait for a seat.

 

 

Flights from the UK to Panama

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:

 

Panamanian 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 Panama