Private jet charter in Inverness

A light jet leaves the London fields after breakfast and is on the ground at Dalcross in about an hour and a quarter, which is what makes a long weekend in the Highlands possible. People go for Loch Ness and the Cairngorms, for a round at Royal Dornoch, for the opening of the grouse season, for a stalking lodge in October or for the first leg of the North Coast 500. Private Jets UK arranges the charter around whichever it is. 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. Inverness is in Scotland, so a flight from London, Manchester, Belfast or Edinburgh is domestic from start to finish, and a jet arriving from Geneva or Dublin lands at an airport that lists customs and immigration on the field, so the planning differs accordingly.

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 Inverness 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 London Luton, a Cessna Citation CJ3+ 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 Inverness?

About an hour and a quarter from London Luton in a light jet, and about 1 h 20 min from Manchester or Liverpool in a turboprop. From Newcastle, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow the turboprop takes about an hour or less, and there is no change of clock anywhere in Britain. The table gives the sector from each British field into Inverness Airport (INV), 66 to 415 nautical miles. Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow are included because the road north is slow: the Highlands are a long way from every other Scottish city, and a PC-12 turns an afternoon of driving into a flight of about 35 to 45 minutes.

Prices for the private jet flights to Inverness

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Inverness Airport. The grouse opening in August, the stalking weeks in October and the busy summer driving season on the North Coast 500 can price above these figures, and the calendar block further down explains when.

Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen all sit on the £3,100 turboprop minimum, and so does everything within about 200 nautical miles, including Newcastle and Belfast City. Leeds is £3,500, and Manchester and Liverpool £3,750. Those flat figures are not rounding. A one-way charter is billed with the aircraft's return positioning, and on a short sector a minimum charge replaces the distance calculation. In London the light jet starts at £6,100 from Luton, £6,400 from London City, £6,450 from Farnborough and £6,550 from Biggin Hill, and in the turboprop the price climbs from £4,400 at Birmingham to £5,000 at Bristol, where the sector needs close to 1 h 45 min.

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 Inverness

Inverness sends a different mix from London. The islands and Belfast are turboprop hops, Dublin and Amsterdam are light-jet sectors of an hour to an hour and a half, the Alps and the Mediterranean sit at two to three hours, and a heavy long-range aircraft is normally planned for anything beyond. 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 Inverness:

This is a small part of what is available. Inverness is a long way from the main business jet bases, so for a booking outside the peak weeks there is usually an aircraft within reach at Edinburgh, Aberdeen or one of the London fields, and the quote may name one of those as the positioning point. That is normal and often where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Inverness 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 in Inverness

One airport does most of the work, and a handful of others matter when the programme lies on the north coast, the north-east or the islands. Two island airstrips you might expect on the list, Broadford on Skye and the beach at Barra, are described below only so that nobody books them by mistake.

Four points settle most Inverness arrivals:

Passport, customs and the flight home

Travelling from London, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff or Edinburgh, the party is still inside the United Kingdom. There is no passport check at the aircraft door, no customs and no General Aviation Report. What the handler wants is the passenger list and the expected arrival time.

A jet from outside the United Kingdom is different. Coming in from Paris, Geneva, Dublin or Dubai, the aircraft lands at Inverness, where Signature lists customs and immigration capability for foreign arrivals, a General Aviation Report is filed between 48 and 2 hours before departure, and Border Force decides who may enter. Getting this wrong is expensive: the penalty is £2,500 for a first landing at a non-regulated aerodrome, and £2,000 for each passenger carried without permission. Most visitors who need no visa must also hold an Electronic Travel Authorisation, though British and Irish citizens do not. Because the airport closes overnight, an international arrival also has to fit inside the hours the field and Border Force cover.

Leaving Inverness, the destination sets the rules. A British passport holder heading for the Schengen area meets EU border checks on arrival, including a photo and fingerprints at the first entry. Give us the nationalities in the party when you ask for a quote, and we check the position for the dates.

From the apron to Loch Ness and the glens

Inverness is the northernmost city in the United Kingdom, at the head of the Great Glen, where the River Ness runs out of Loch Ness into the Moray Firth. Almost everything a visitor wants lies within a morning's drive of the airport, so a private party rarely changes base. The programme is built around one house or one hotel, and the airport is 15 to 20 minutes from the city and not much more from the first castle.

Loch Ness is the obvious first stop. The loch is about 36 km (22 miles) long, up to about 230 m deep, and holds more water than all the lakes of England and Wales together. Its northern end lies some 10 km south-west of Inverness. Urquhart Castle stands on a headland on the western shore, about 2 km east of Drumnadrochit beside the A82. The ruins date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, the five-storey Grant Tower is the tallest remaining part, and it is one of the most visited castles in Scotland. A boat on the loch or a lunch at Fort Augustus at the southern end fills a day. A morning at Urquhart and an afternoon on the water suits a party that has only one.

Culloden is the other fixed point. The battle took place on the moor on 16 April, when the government army under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites of Charles Edward Stuart, and the National Trust for Scotland has spent decades restoring the field. It is about 5 miles from the city. Cawdor Castle lies a little farther east, near Nairn: a tower house built around 1454 on a licence to fortify, around the dead trunk of a holly tree that tests have dated to about 1372. Shakespeare made his Macbeth Thane of Cawdor, though the story takes large liberties with the history and the castle was built long after the real Macbeth. The family of the Earls Cawdor still owns it, and the gardens are laid out in three parts, a walled garden, a flower garden and a wild garden.

East of the airport, the Moray Firth coast is the country of the dolphin watchers. The bottlenose dolphins of the inner firth come close to the shore at Chanonry Point, on the Black Isle between Rosemarkie and Fortrose, and boat trips run from Avoch and Cromarty. The Black Isle is not an island but a peninsula between the Cromarty and Beauly Firths, with red kites that were reintroduced there from Sweden. It is a good half-day for those who want something gentler than a mountain.

South of Inverness the A9 reaches the Cairngorms, the largest national park in the United Kingdom, covering 4,528 square kilometres. Aviemore is the base for the walking, the winter sports and the reindeer herd on the high ground, the only semi-domesticated herd in the British Isles. The Strathspey railway and the pine forests with their capercaillie add other days. The Cairngorm funicular has had long closures, so we do not plan a day around it without checking.

Speyside, to the east of the park, is the whisky country. The region has roughly 50 distilleries, more than any other Scotch whisky area, and about half of the whisky made in Scotland is made there. Glenfiddich and The Glenlivet are the two best-selling single malts in the world, and Dufftown, the self-styled whisky capital, produces more malt whisky than any other Scottish town. The Malt Whisky Trail links working distilleries with the Speyside Cooperage and the Dallas Dhu museum distillery. It is a day trip by car from Inverness or from Aberdeen, and the distilleries that run tours should be booked ahead.

West and north are the long roads. The North Coast 500 is a 516-mile (830 km) circular route that starts and ends at Inverness Castle and runs clockwise through Applecross and the Bealach na Ba, Durness and John o' Groats, with Dornoch among its main stops. Driven at a holiday pace it takes several days, and in the peak summer season journey times for everybody are much longer than the map suggests. Private clients most often fly in, drive a part of the route with a driver and a good car, and fly out from another airport such as Wick, or use a helicopter to skip the long stretches. Skye, 1,656 square kilometres and the second-largest island in Scotland, lies across the Skye Bridge, with Portree, Dunvegan Castle, the Cuillin and the Old Man of Storr. Past Skye are the Outer Hebrides and Orkney, reached from Inverness by turboprop to Stornoway or Kirkwall, or by the scheduled Loganair services if the party prefers a seat on those.

Golf, shooting and stalking

The three courses that bring most golfers north are within an hour of the airport. Castle Stuart is a links on the Moray Firth, about 2 miles from the airport and 6.5 miles north-east of Inverness, designed by Gil Hanse and Mark Parsinen, and it has hosted the Scottish Open. Nairn, 17 miles east of Inverness, has two championship courses, Nairn and Nairn Dunbar, and Nairn hosted the Walker Cup and the Curtis Cup. Royal Dornoch, on the Dornoch Firth, is about an hour away by road, received royal status from King Edward VII, and its Championship course is ranked among the best outside the United States. Donald Ross, who laid out so many American courses, grew up in Dornoch. Four players and three rounds in three days is a typical request, and the airport suits it because the first tee is nearer than the hotel.

Sporting estates are the other half of the trade. The red grouse season opens on 12 August, the Glorious Twelfth, and most other game seasons open later in the autumn. Stag stalking is mainly a matter of July to mid-October, and the first three weeks of October are the busiest period. The hind season runs from 21 October to 15 February. A shooting party travels with guns, dogs and a great deal of clothing, and the practical difficulty is not the sector. It is the certificates for the firearms, the handling of the cases and the last miles: estates sit at the end of long tracks, and the transfer is done by four-wheel-drive vehicle or helicopter. We ask for the estate's transfer arrangements before we quote, and the firearms paperwork is settled with the operator before the day, not at the steps.

Flying to Inverness with a dog or a cat

A pet on a flight from an English or Welsh airfield to Inverness sits in the cabin with the owner, and nothing has to be declared, because the flight never leaves Great Britain. The one requirement is the microchip that British law already demands for a dog. A gundog going north for the season is a common passenger, and most animals sleep through the sector. Paperwork begins only when the flight starts or finishes abroad.

What each type of Inverness flight asks of the animal:

• From England, Wales or elsewhere in Scotland: nothing beyond the microchip and the usual documents for the operator;
• From abroad into Inverness: a dog needs a tapeworm treatment from a vet between 24 and 120 hours before arrival, a pet travel document and a declaration are required, and no more than five animals may travel with one person. Cats do not need the tapeworm treatment. A dog travelling directly to Great Britain from Ireland, Finland, Malta or Norway needs no treatment on the way back;
• From Inverness to the EU: a microchip fitted before or at the same time as the rabies vaccination, a rabies vaccination from 12 weeks of age followed by a 21-day wait, and an Animal Health Certificate for each trip, valid for ten days for entry to the EU. A Great Britain pet passport is not valid for entry to the EU.

Requirements for cats, ferrets, birds and anything less usual are collected on our flying with pets guide. We confirm the entry point and the paperwork for the animal in writing before the flight.

The Highland calendar: games, grouse and Hogmanay

The Highlands have a long off-season, one very busy summer and an autumn that belongs to the estates. Knowing which week you want matters more than choosing an aircraft.

Ways to bring the Inverness price down

• Use the turboprop from the north. Up to about 200 nautical miles the PC-12 is £3,100 and a light jet £5,300, and eight people with golf bags do not need a bigger cabin;
• Pick the departure field by the drive. Manchester and Liverpool are close in price, so the nearer one is the cheaper in effect;
• Ask where the aircraft sleeps. One already based in Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Manchester needs less positioning than one coming up from the south, and positioning is a big share of a short sector;
• Think about a one-way programme. Fly into Inverness, drive part of the North Coast 500 with a driver and fly home from Wick, so that the aircraft does not wait for days at the airport;
• Move the date if it can move. The same flight in mid-April costs less than in the week of the Glorious Twelfth.

Types of flights

Inverness mixes things that other British cities keep apart: a regional capital, the gate to the Highland national park, the best golf in the north and the starting point for the sporting estates.

• Business and professional travel into the city, usually a morning in and an afternoon out, with Inverness Airport 8 miles from the centre;
• Golf parties for Castle Stuart, Nairn and Royal Dornoch, often with a car booked for the last stretch;
• Sporting parties for the grouse season and for stalking in the autumn, flown in with guns and dogs, usually with a helicopter or a four-wheel-drive transfer arranged for the estate;
• Family holidays and house parties in the Highlands, with a driver for the glens and sometimes a helicopter for an excursion to Skye;
• The North Coast 500, flown in at Inverness and out of Wick or the other way round;
• Departures to London, Belfast, Dublin and the islands, and onward to the Alps and the Mediterranean, which are the same flights run the other way.

Take the day trip as an example. Leave Luton at seven, land a little after a quarter past eight and be at a site visit near Beauly or a meeting in the city by ten. The aircraft waits at the Business Aviation Centre, the return leaves before the airport closes for the night, and the waiting time is a line in the quote, though it usually still beats two separate one-way charters.

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Inverness has several seasonal peaks that create them, and it helps to know what produces them.

Inverness sees far fewer movements than the busiest London corridors, so flexibility counts for a lot: a client who offers a three-day window is far likelier to find a leg than one who needs a given Friday. The operator, not the passenger, fixes the hour, and a leg can disappear if the booking behind it changes. Whatever is free is listed on our empty legs page, and we flag an Inverness match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

In the Highlands a helicopter is a tool for the last stretch and not for the city. The airport is 8 miles from the centre and a car does that work. The places where rotary flight changes the journey are the estate, the loch shore and the island, where the road adds an hour or more to each end of the day.

The machines on this ground are the Airbus H125 for the quick transfers and the mountain work, the wider H130 for country-house and course transfers, the H135 and the Bell 429 where a twin is wanted, and the H155 for larger parties. 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 Inverness 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 Inverness

Biggin Hill, London City, Luton and Farnborough send most of the London traffic on this corridor, but the shortest sectors come from the north: Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds are all within about 270 nautical miles of Inverness, a turboprop trip of about an hour and a half or less. The price table higher up covers 16 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

Inverness 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 Inverness