Private jet charter in Shannon

A jet leaving the London fields lands on the Shannon estuary in about an hour and a quarter, on a runway long enough for the Atlantic, at an airport that publishes no curfew. Private Jets UK arranges the charter around whatever the trip is for. 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. Shannon is one of the few places where the question is not only the destination. Some clients land here for Limerick, Clare and a week of links golf, and others touch down only to refuel and clear US customs on the way west. The airport takes both without fuss, with three competing handlers, round-the-clock operation and a US preclearance service for private aircraft that Shannon Group describes as the only one in Europe, so the real choices are the handler, the date and what the second day should look like.

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 Shannon 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 Biggin Hill, 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 Shannon?

About an hour and a quarter from the London fields in a light jet, an hour and ten minutes from Cardiff by turboprop, and no change of clock from anywhere in Britain, because Ireland keeps the same time as the UK. At 229 to 354 nautical miles this is a short sector that sits between two aircraft classes: from the west and the north a turboprop loses little against a jet, while from the south of England the jet is worth having. The table gives the sector from each British field into Shannon.

Prices for the private jet flights to Shannon

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Shannon. Galway Races week, the July golf weeks and the Ryder Cup week at Adare Manor can price above these figures, and the calendar block further down explains when.

The cheapest sectors are the ones from the west, with Cardiff at £3,350 and Liverpool at £3,400 by turboprop, and the dearest are the Citation XLS+ from Southampton at £6,800 and the light jets from the London fields at £5,800. Mileage explains little of that gap. A one-way charter is billed with the aircraft's positioning back to base, so the choice of aircraft moves the quote far more than the extra hundred nautical miles from Southampton or Biggin Hill. If four people can travel in a PC-12 from Bristol or Manchester for £3,600, the same party in a light jet from the same field pays £5,300, and that is the first number worth asking about.

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 Shannon

Shannon sends a different mix from the London fields. Dublin and Belfast are turboprop hops, Paris and Amsterdam a light-jet hour and a half, the Alps and the Mediterranean sit at two to three hours, and the sectors the airport is known for are the long ones: Boston and New York in a super-midsize or larger cabin, and the Gulf in a long-range jet. 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 Shannon:

This is a small part of what is available. Every field on the price table is within about an hour and three quarters of Shannon, and so are Dublin, Cork and Belfast, so outside an event week there is usually an aircraft already near enough to reach you. A quote may name one of those places as the positioning point, which is normal and often where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Shannon 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 around Shannon

One airport does almost all the work, and the decision that matters is the handler. Three other Irish airports come into the conversation when the programme leaves Clare.

Four points settle most Shannon arrivals:

Shannon and the Atlantic: preclearance and technical stops

Commercial flying boats crossed the Atlantic from the Shannon estuary before the Second World War, the airport became the world's first duty-free airport soon after the war, and for decades every airliner between Europe and North America stopped here for fuel. The EU and US open skies agreement ended that stopover trade, and the airport turned to what suits it best: aircraft that want to cross the ocean and want somewhere sensible to start or finish. North Atlantic air traffic control sits in Shannon, westbound departures have direct access to the best tracks and levels, and the airport describes itself as nearly equidistant between the United States and the Middle East.

The service that sets the airport apart is US preclearance for private aircraft. Passengers and crew go through US immigration, customs and agriculture inspection at Shannon before they leave, so the aircraft arrives in the United States as a domestic flight and can land at any of more than 200 airports on the approved list. Shannon Group says it is the only airport in Europe or the Middle East to offer this to general aviation, and Universal Aviation adds that a combined refuelling and CBP turn usually takes 45 to 60 minutes. CBP works in daytime hours that are extended on request, notice is 24 hours at the minimum, and the US airport has to be one the programme accepts.

Preclearance has limits worth knowing. It works one way, on departures from Shannon to the US. It does not shorten the flight from Britain, a stop at Gander is a Canadian clearance in its own right, and the passenger still needs the entry authorisation that applies to his or her passport. For a technical stop the position is simpler still: when passengers and crew stay on board and do not enter Ireland, Irish customs clearance is not required, and turns of 45 minutes are normal.

Passport, customs and the Irish side

A flight from Britain to Shannon is international: Ireland is a separate country, and there are customs and an immigration officer at the airport. What softens it is the Common Travel Area. British and Irish citizens can move between the two countries without a routine passport check, and the Irish immigration service says that an officer who is satisfied that a passenger is a citizen entitled to use the Area, arriving from the UK, asks nothing more. Because Irish airports rarely separate arrivals by origin, officers can ask for nationality and the port of embarkation, and a boarding card or another document showing name and nationality is what answers it. On a private flight the handler gives them the names in advance, and we suggest every passenger carries a passport anyway.

Other nationalities need more care. Ireland sets its own visa rules, and they are separate from those of the UK, so a British visa or Electronic Travel Authorisation does not give entry to Ireland. On the way home the position reverses: a passenger who is not a British or Irish citizen and needs no visa will typically need a UK Electronic Travel Authorisation for the return. Tell us the nationalities when you ask for the quote and we check both ends.

Customs follow the border between the EU customs area and the UK, which runs between Ireland and Britain even though people cross it freely. Shannon is one of the three Irish airports Revenue lists as customs-appointed for flights from outside the EU, and the office is on site. The British end needs a General Aviation Report, filed between 48 and 2 hours before departure, and we file it for you. The Irish transport authorities have also traditionally asked foreign operators for written flight authorisation a couple of working days ahead; that goes into the quote, not onto your list.

From the apron to the Cliffs of Moher

Shannon is a compact airport with a long list of places inside a short drive. It stands in County Clare, on the north bank of the estuary, and almost everything a visitor comes for lies within an hour of the terminal: a medieval castle, a city, two five-star hotels, the best-known sea cliffs in Ireland and, a little further, three of the country's great links courses.

The Cliffs of Moher are the destination most visitors ask about. The cliffs run for about 14 km along the Atlantic edge of County Clare and reach 214 m just north of O'Brien's Tower, which Sir Cornelius O'Brien built in the nineteenth century; they draw more than a million visitors a year and are part of the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark, which UNESCO recognises. Doolin lies about 7 km to the north and Liscannor about 6 km to the south. Behind the cliffs is the Burren, a limestone landscape of about 530 square kilometres with some 70 megalithic tombs, among them the Poulnabrone dolmen, the cave at Aillwee, and more than 70 per cent of Ireland's native flower species growing in the cracks. Cliff-top paths are sometimes closed for safety, so we check access with the visitor centre before a driver is booked.

Closer to the airport the choice is cultural. Bunratty is a tower house begun in the middle of the fifteenth century, restored and opened to visitors in the 1960s, with a folk park of recreated nineteenth-century cottages and shops and medieval banquets in the Great Hall; the village pubs are a short walk away. Limerick, a city of about 100,000 people on the Shannon, has King John's Castle, which the Normans built in the early thirteenth century, St Mary's Cathedral from the twelfth, the Hunt Museum in an eighteenth-century Custom House and the Milk Market, and it is the home of Munster rugby at Thomond Park. Across the estuary at Foynes the flying-boat museum sits in the old seaplane terminal where the Irish coffee was first mixed in the early 1940s for passengers whose flight had turned back, which is the best single reminder of why this stretch of coast matters to aviation.

Golf from Shannon: Lahinch, Doonbeg, Ballybunion and Adare

Golf is the other reason the airport is busy in summer, and the geography is unusually friendly. Lahinch and Doonbeg are on the Clare coast, Ballybunion is across the estuary in County Kerry, and Adare Manor is a parkland resort to the south-east, so a party can base itself at one of the castle hotels and play a different course each day.

• Lahinch: the Old Course, which Old Tom Morris laid out and Alister MacKenzie redesigned in the 1920s, runs between the road and the sea with goats loose on the fairways, and the Castle Course lies across the road. The club has staged the Irish Open, and the South of Ireland Championship, first played in the 1890s, is held there in July;
• Doonbeg: Greg Norman's links, opened in the early 2000s, with a lodge of 218 suites beside it, on the Clare coast to the south of Lahinch;
• Ballybunion: the Old Course, remodelled by Tom Watson in the 1990s, and the Cashen Course by Robert Trent Jones Sr, on the Kerry shore. By road it means the long way round through Limerick, which the Shannon car ferry from Killimer to Tarbert shortens to a crossing of about 20 minutes, with hourly sailings and more in summer;
• Adare Manor: Tom Fazio's course beside the River Maigue, at a Tudor-revival manor that reopened as a hotel after restoration. It has staged the Irish Open and the JP McManus Pro-Am, a charity event with a field of tour players, and it is the venue chosen for the Ryder Cup when it is played in Ireland.

Golf bags are what decide the aircraft, as a rule. Four golfers and a week of luggage will not fit a light jet comfortably, and the usual answer is a midsize cabin and a van at the apron. For the coast, a helicopter between the castle hotel and the first tee turns a long road transfer into a flight of about twenty minutes, and some Irish operators advertise heli-golf transfers to Ballybunion and Doonbeg for just that reason.

Flying to Shannon with a dog or a cat

Ireland is in the EU, and for a pet it treats Great Britain as a country outside the Union. That means paperwork for the animal, but the flight is the easy part: the dog or cat sits beside you in the cabin, never in a hold, and on a sector of about an hour and a quarter most simply sleep.

What Ireland asks for when a dog or cat arrives from Great Britain:

• A microchip, fitted before or at the same time as the rabies vaccination, which a vet must have given;
• An Animal Health Certificate from an Official Veterinarian for each trip. A British pet passport is not valid for entry to the EU, and the certificate is valid for 10 days for entry;
• For dogs, a tapeworm treatment by a vet 24 to 120 hours, one to five days, before arrival in Ireland, recorded in the paperwork. Cats are exempt;
• Entry through one of the designated Travellers' Points of Entry, which include Shannon Airport, with advance notice given to the point of entry;
• No more than five animals per traveller.

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 Shannon calendar: links, races and the Atlantic

Shannon has a summer of golf and festivals, a winter of rugby and business, and a September in which one parkland course can take every room in the county. Knowing which week you want matters more than choosing an aircraft.

Ways to bring the Shannon price down

• Take the turboprop from Wales, the Midlands and the north. A PC-12 quote runs from £3,350 to £4,100 against £5,300 for a light jet from the same fields, and for eight people with ordinary bags the cabin is not the constraint;
• Choose the field you can reach fastest. The difference between Bristol at £3,600 and Newcastle at £4,100 is smaller than the difference between a turboprop and a jet from either, so the saving is in the drive to the airfield and not in the search for a cheaper one;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet already in Ireland or in the north-west of England needs less positioning than one from the south coast, and on a short sector positioning is a large share of the bill.

Types of flights

Shannon produces a mix you will not find at a city airport, because the airport is at the same time a regional gateway, a business address and a stop on the Atlantic.

• Business in the Shannon Free Zone and in Limerick, usually a morning in and an afternoon out, with the terminal a short drive from both;
• Golf parties for Lahinch, Doonbeg, Ballybunion and Adare Manor, often with the castle hotels at Dromoland and Adare as the base;
• Castle-hotel weekends and family trips built on Bunratty, the Cliffs of Moher, the Burren and the Clare coast;
• Racing and festivals: Galway in July, rugby at Thomond Park and the one-off weeks such as the Ryder Cup;
• Technical stops and positioning on the Atlantic, where the aircraft is on the apron for less than an hour;
• Departures for New York, Boston and the Gulf, with US preclearance for the American legs.

The day trip needs a closer look. Leave Biggin Hill at seven and you land a little after eight, and because the airport does not close there is no deadline for the return, so the last meeting can run into the evening. A same-day return means the aircraft and crew wait for you rather than going home, and that waiting is paid for, but it still comes out cheaper than two separate one-way charters. If the evening is the point, an overnight at Dromoland or Adare changes the quote very little.

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Shannon creates them in a particular way, because so many of its movements are one-way arrivals and departures for the Atlantic and for events, and it helps to know where they come from.

Because the Shannon corridor is thinner than the busiest London routes, 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 Shannon match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

In Clare a helicopter shortens the coast, not the town. Limerick is half an hour by car and does not need one. The places where rotary flight changes the journey are the Atlantic links, the cliffs and, above all, the far side of the Shannon estuary, where the road runs a long way inland to get round the water.

Irish operators in Clare and Galway list scenic flights over the Cliffs of Moher, the Burren and the Aran Islands, and charter transfers from Irish airports, Shannon included, to golf courses such as Ballybunion and Doonbeg. The machines on this ground are the Airbus H125 for the quick transfers, the wider H130 for course and hotel 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 Shannon 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 Shannon

Biggin Hill, London City, Luton and Farnborough send most of the London traffic on this corridor, with Southampton behind them, but the shortest sectors come from the west and north: Cardiff, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow are all within about 260 nautical miles of Shannon, a turboprop trip of well under an hour and a half. The price table higher up covers 15 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

Shannon 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 Shannon