Private jet charter in Bilbao

Bilbao is the Basque gateway where a light jet and a heavy one are equally at home, and that shapes most of the charters we plan there from London. Private Jets UK builds the trip around the airport you land at and the programme you have on the ground. 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. Bilbao airport stands at Loiu, 9 km north of the city, with a main runway of 2,600 m and customs during airport hours, and it takes everything from a Phenom to a Gulfstream, while San Sebastián, Vitoria, Santander and Pamplona serve as smaller or inland alternatives. The choice among them depends on the plan for the day, not on the jet.

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 Bilbao 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, an Embraer Phenom 300E 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 Bilbao?

About 1 h 30 min from Farnborough or Cardiff in a Phenom, about 1 h 35 min from Biggin Hill in a light jet, and about 2 h 05 min from Edinburgh or Glasgow in a Challenger. Spain runs an hour ahead of Britain all year, so the clock on the wall at Loiu reads later than the flight time suggests. The British fields we use sit between 482 and 790 nautical miles from Bilbao, which makes it an easy light-jet sector from the south of England and a job for a larger cabin from the north. The table gives each field in turn.

Prices for the private jet flights to Bilbao

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Bilbao airport. Bilbao BBK Live in July and Aste Nagusia in August can price above these figures, and the calendar block further down explains when.

Cabin size moves the price far more than the airport does. From Biggin Hill a Challenger 350 comes to about £12,000 one way, a Falcon 2000LXS to about £14,700 and a Gulfstream G450 to about £17,100. The same sector into San Sebastián is a little cheaper, which is why the airport rarely settles the choice. The runway, the hour of the return and the programme on the ground do.

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:

Private jet flights from Bilbao

Bilbao works well as a base for the north of Spain. San Sebastián and Santander are turboprop hops, Madrid and Barcelona are morning sectors, and Paris, Lisbon and the Riviera sit inside a lunch. Typical one-way prices:

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 Bilbao:

This is a small part of what is available. Because Bilbao is the main business airport of the Basque Country, a quote may name Madrid, Biarritz or another Spanish field as the place where the aircraft is positioned from. That is normal for a region without a large based fleet, and it is frequently where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Bilbao 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.

Business aviation airports near Bilbao

One airport serves the city and four others matter for the wider Basque and Cantabrian programme. Which is right depends on where you are going and how large the aircraft is, not on the make of the jet.

Four things to settle before a Bilbao landing:

Border, passport and the way back

The first landing in the Schengen area is where the formalities happen. At Loiu they are arranged through your handler for the opening hours of the airport, and the details of every passenger go to the handler with the flight plan. For the return to Britain the General Aviation Report is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure. A visitor who holds a British passport still has to meet the 90-day rule counted across the whole Schengen area, so tell us if the Bilbao trip is one of several European stays in the same half year.

From the apron to the Ría

Bilbao grew along its estuary, the Ría, which runs about 15 km from the point where the Nervión and the Ibaizabal meet to the sea. For a century the banks were steelworks and shipyards, and the city has spent the time since turning them into museums, parks and concert halls. The Guggenheim, designed by Frank Gehry and opened in the late nineties on the site of former docks, is the building the world knows, with 24,000 square metres of floor and 9,000 of galleries. It stands beside the river in the centre, close to Abando, the district that was annexed to the city in the nineteenth century and holds its park, Doña Casilda Iturrizar.

The Old Town is the opposite of all that. The Seven Streets, the Siete Calles, date from the Middle Ages and were completed in the fifteenth century, the Cathedral of St James and the Church of San Antón stand among the oldest buildings, and the pintxos bars sit on a tight grid that is easy to cross on foot. Norman Foster designed the metro, which makes the city simple to move through without a car. Mount Artxanda, reached by funicular from the centre, gives the view over the whole estuary.

Industry is still part of the city's story. The Altos Hornos de Vizcaya steelworks opened at the start of the twentieth century, Etxebarria Park was built on the site of a steel mill and kept its chimney, and the Carola crane at the Maritime Museum is the last element of the Euskalduna shipyard. The yard gave its name to the Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall, home of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, and the old wine warehouse that Philippe Starck redesigned now holds the cinema, library and restaurant of Azkuna Zentroa. For a business visit this matters, because a meeting here often ends with a walk through the places where the work was done.

Food decides the dates for many clients, and the strongest tables lie outside the centre. According to the Basque tourist board, Azurmendi at Larrabetzu, near Bilbao, holds three Michelin stars.

Wine is the second reason to fly in. Rioja Alavesa is the part of the Rioja region that belongs to the Basque Country, and the wine villages sit about 130 km from Bilbao airport. The Marqués de Riscal hotel and winery at Elciego, designed by Frank Gehry and covered in titanium with pink, gold and silver tones, is the best-known building, and Ysios at Laguardia, 7 km away, is by Santiago Calatrava. Tours of the winery are reserved through its website and take 60 to 90 minutes. Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country, lies on the way and is worth an hour for its medieval quarter and for the Old Cathedral, a fortress-like Gothic church.

The coast is the third. Gaztelugatxe, the islet with a hermitage of St John the Baptist, is about 35 km east of Bilbao and 6 km beyond Bakio. Access is free, but a ticket booked in advance is needed from 10 am to 7 pm daily from mid-June to mid-September and at weekends from the last week of March to the end of October, and the pass is reserved online up to six months ahead. The dates change from year to year, so we check the booking calendar for your day. The path ends in 241 steps, and the bell at the top is rung three times for a wish. Further up the coast Urdaibai, a biosphere reserve around the estuary at Gernika, holds the surfing village of Mundaka, the fishing port of Bermeo and the Santimamiñe cave, with its traces of prehistoric settlement. Getxo, at the mouth of the Ría, has the Vizcaya Bridge, built in the nineteenth century and now a UNESCO World Heritage site, the oldest transporter bridge in the world.

Flying to Bilbao with a dog or a cat

Two things go wrong with a pet on a trip like this: the date on the health certificate and the vet appointment for the journey home. The flight is the easy part, because the animal sits beside you in the cabin, never in a hold, and on a sector of under two hours most simply sleep.

What an EU country such as Spain asks for when a pet arrives from Britain:

• An ISO microchip, fitted before the rabies vaccination or at the same time;
• A rabies vaccination given when the animal was at least 12 weeks old, with 21 days elapsed before the animal travels;
• An Animal Health Certificate for each trip, issued by an Official Veterinarian and valid for ten days for entry to the EU. A British pet passport cannot be used to enter the EU;
• No more than five animals per traveller, presented at a travellers' point of entry, which we confirm in writing for the airport;
• For dogs, a tapeworm treatment from a vet between 24 and 120 hours before arrival back in Britain, recorded on the paperwork. Cats are exempt.

Requirements for cats, ferrets, birds and anything less usual are collected on our flying with pets guide. For the entry point and the paperwork on the way home, we confirm both in writing before the flight, and our managers check the position for your dates before a booking is taken.

The Bilbao calendar: two festivals and a damp, green year

Bilbao has no closed season. The climate is oceanic, with rain through the year and mild temperatures, and the average high runs from about 13°C in January to about 26°C in August. Two festivals set the pace of the year, one in July and one in August, and knowing which week you want matters more than choosing an aircraft.

Ways to bring the Bilbao price down

• Move the dates by a few days where you can. The week after Aste Nagusia and the weeks between the festivals are calmer than the festival weekends themselves;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits in Madrid, Bordeaux or Biarritz takes less positioning than one coming from Britain, and on a sector of this length positioning is a meaningful part of the bill;
• Compare the airports. On the same light jet from Biggin Hill the sector costs about £7,600 into San Sebastián, £7,750 into Bilbao or Santander, and £8,000 into Pamplona or Vitoria, so the difference is small and the programme on the ground should decide.

Types of flights

Bilbao produces a mix that differs from the beach or the ski destinations, because it is a working city with a famous museum, a serious kitchen and two good landscapes within an hour's drive.

• Culture breaks built around the Guggenheim and the Old Town, usually a long weekend from the south of England;
• Gastronomy trips, from a three-star dinner in the hills to a pintxos evening in the Seven Streets;
• Wine days, flying into Bilbao and driving to Rioja Alavesa through Vitoria;
• Coast and nature days: Gaztelugatxe, Urdaibai and the beaches of the Bizkaia coast;
• Festival weekends for Bilbao BBK Live in July and Aste Nagusia in August;
• Business visits and conferences, such as those at the Euskalduna centre, where delegations often want a same-day return, plus onward hops to Madrid or Barcelona.

The day trip is the one to look at closely. Land at about twenty to ten, leave Loiu at six in the evening local time and you are back at Biggin Hill at about twenty-five to seven in the evening, UK time, with about eight hours on the ground in between. The aircraft and crew wait for you rather than going home, and that waiting is paid for, but a same-day return still comes out cheaper than two separate one-way charters. We quote it both ways, so the difference is visible.

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Because Bilbao takes aircraft of every size, it sees more of them than the small airfields along the coast, and it helps to know what produces them.

A client who can name a few days rather than one has a far better chance than one who needs a particular evening. What you give up is the usual: the operator owns the date and the hour, and a leg can vanish when the original booking moves. Whatever is free is listed on our empty legs page, and we flag a Bilbao match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

In Bilbao a helicopter is a tool for the edges of a trip and not the middle. The city is crossed by metro and car, and the places where rotary flight changes the journey are the hills and the vineyards, the restaurants that are hard to reach and the link with a jet that lands at another airport. Public scenic flights in the Basque Country are listed as leaving from the airport at Hondarribia, near San Sebastián, not from Bilbao, while private helicopter transfers and charters are offered from the airports of Bilbao, San Sebastián, Biarritz, Vitoria and Pamplona to wineries, restaurants and other destinations. At Bilbao there is no separate helicopter area: the aircraft are cleared to land on the runway in use, and the airport has marked stands for them.

The machines normally used for this work are the Airbus H125 for scenic and mountain flying, the wider H130 for transfers, and the H135 or the Bell 429 where a twin is wanted. We book them alongside the jet so that both crews work to one timetable.

Flight payment options

The main goal of our company is to provide the highest level of comfort to our customers. Therefore, we're always ready to meet you halfway. Our consultants will offer you a wide variety of flights to meet your needs and budget. Most customers prefer a non-cash method (a transfer to an EU bank account), which guarantees a high level of confidentiality and security of payment. All payment details are provided in advance, so you'll have enough time to make the necessary checks. For years of working in business aviation, our company has gained an impeccable reputation. We practice transparency and are always ready to present all necessary documents.

Private Jets UK works with both physical and legal entities. We guarantee the confidentiality and security of payments. You can pay for the flights from Bilbao in any convenient way:

• cashless (by transfer to our account);
• by cash;
• by card;
• by cryptocurrency.

Our company works with European and British banks, which allows you to choose the most convenient payment method. In addition, we conclude formal agreements and provide our clients with all necessary documents and invoices, which guarantees the safe payment and delivery of services. If you have any financial questions, feel free to contact our private aviation consultants.

If you need to book an urgent flight, please keep in mind that the bank transfer can take a few days. In such situations, we may need to involve our partner companies so that you can pay for your flight in cash. If you have any questions, you can contact your personal consultant 24/7.

Flights from the UK to Bilbao

Biggin Hill, London City, Luton and Farnborough send most of the traffic on this corridor, with Southampton, Bristol and Birmingham behind them and Scotland at the long end; 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:

 

Airport	Country	ICAO	IATA
London Heathrow Airport	England	EGLL	LHR
Birmingham Airport	England	EGBB	BHX
London Gatwick	England	EGKK	LGW
London City Airport	England	EGLC	LCY
London Luton	England	EGGW	LTN
Edinburgh Airport	Scotland	EGPH	EDI
Leeds Airport	England	EGNM	LBA
Manchester Airport	England	EGCC	MAN
London Stansted	England	EGSS	STN
Liverpool John Lennon Airport	England	EGGP	LPL
Newcastle Airport	England	EGNT	NCL
Bristol Airport	England	EGGD	BRS
Glasgow Airport	Scotland	EGPF	GLA
East Midlands Airport	England	EGNX	EMA
Southampton Airport	England	EGHI	SOU
Jersey Airport	Channel Islands	EGJJ	JER
Cardiff International Airport	Wales	EGFF	CWL
Inverness Airport	Scotland	EGPE	INV
Bournemouth Airport	England	EGHH	BOH
London Farnborough Airport	England	EGLF	FAB
Oxford Airport	England	EGTK	OXF
London Biggin Hill	England	EGKB	BQH
Belfast Airport	Northern Ireland	EGAA	BFS
Gibraltar Airport	Gibraltar	LXGB	GIB
Aberdeen Airport	Scotland	EGPD	ABZ

Bilbao charters from the booking notes: six typical trips

What the corridor looks like once a quote turns into a flight. Six typical jobs of the kind that come through our booking notes, described in outline, with the particulars changed.

Frequently asked questions about flying to Bilbao