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Private jet charter in Zaragoza

Aragon is a little under two hours from a London airfield by private jet, and the one airport that serves it is shared with a fighter wing and a freight hub. Private Jets UK builds the charter around the airport you land at. 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. Zaragoza airport lies west of the city beside the Ebro valley, with two parallel runways of 3,718 m and 3,032 m, more than any business jet will ever ask for, and a civil apron that also serves some of the heaviest freighters flying. The runway is therefore never the question. The questions are the hour you land, the stand the handler can give you, and where in Aragon you are actually heading.

 

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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 Zaragoza 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 Zaragoza?

About 1 hour 40 minutes from Farnborough in a Phenom, 1 hour 50 minutes from Biggin Hill or London City in a CJ3+, and 2 hours 20 minutes from Edinburgh or Glasgow in a Challenger 350. Spain keeps Central European time, so the clock on the wall at Zaragoza is one hour ahead of Britain in winter and in summer alike. The British fields we use lie 580 to 898 nautical miles from Zaragoza, which makes it an easy light-jet sector from the south of England and a job for a larger cabin from Scotland. The table gives the sector from each field.

Route Aircraft Flying time Routing
Southampton - Zaragoza
580 nm / 1,074 km
Cessna Citation XLS+ about 1 h 40 min Nonstop
Farnborough - Zaragoza
600 nm / 1,111 km
Embraer Phenom 300E about 1 h 40 min Nonstop
Biggin Hill - Zaragoza
605 nm / 1,120 km
Cessna Citation CJ3+ about 1 h 50 min Nonstop
Bristol - Zaragoza
611 nm / 1,132 km
Cessna Citation XLS+ about 1 h 45 min Nonstop
Cardiff - Zaragoza
616 nm / 1,141 km
Embraer Phenom 300E about 1 h 45 min Nonstop
London City - Zaragoza
616 nm / 1,141 km
Cessna Citation CJ3+ about 1 h 50 min Nonstop
London Luton - Zaragoza
638 nm / 1,182 km
Embraer Phenom 300E about 1 h 45 min Nonstop
Birmingham - Zaragoza
674 nm / 1,248 km
Cessna Citation XLS+ about 1 h 55 min Nonstop
Manchester - Zaragoza
732 nm / 1,356 km
Cessna Citation Latitude about 2 h Nonstop
Leeds - Zaragoza
762 nm / 1,411 km
Cessna Citation Latitude about 2 h 05 min Nonstop
Newcastle - Zaragoza
835 nm / 1,546 km
Learjet 75 Liberty about 2 h 20 min Nonstop
Edinburgh - Zaragoza
897 nm / 1,661 km
Bombardier Challenger 350 about 2 h 20 min Nonstop
Glasgow - Zaragoza
898 nm / 1,663 km
Bombardier Challenger 350 about 2 h 20 min Nonstop

Door to door, and the clock on the wall

Take off from Farnborough at eight and you touch down at Zaragoza at about twenty to eleven local time. The airport lies roughly 14 km west of the Plaza del Pilar in a straight line, civil customs works at any hour of the day, and immigration follows the airport hours, which run from 06:45 to 23:00 local time, so a morning arrival meets no gap in the service. A client who leaves a Surrey office after breakfast can be sitting down to lunch in the old town around one o'clock. Scheduled links between Britain and Zaragoza are thin, and the usual alternative is a change at Madrid or Barcelona followed by the high-speed train, which turns a morning into most of a day.

Light jet, midsize or large: how the choice usually goes on this route

– Up to four people with ordinary bags, take a light jet. A Citation CJ3+ or a Phenom 300E has no difficulty on either runway, and the money you do not spend on a bigger cabin goes on the car, the hotel and the table;

– Five to seven passengers, ski bags in winter, or a case of Garnacha for the return, and we quote a midsize cabin next to the light jet so that you see both figures. A Citation XLS+ or a Latitude is an ordinary visitor at an airport that sees much heavier aircraft every day;

– Large cabins have no problem with the runways, which are 3,718 m and 3,032 m and shared with cargo widebodies and military transports. When the longer runway is closed for resurfacing, traffic uses the 3,032 m one, which is still ample for any business jet. The limit is the apron: the aeronautical information says general aviation depends on apron capacity and needs a slot request three hours ahead, and there is no hangar space for visiting aircraft. For a long stay with a heavy jet we ask the handler to confirm the parking in writing before the quote leaves our desk.

 

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Prices for the private jet flights to Zaragoza

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Zaragoza airport. The week of the Fiestas del Pilar in October and the ski weekends in winter can price above these figures, and the calendar block further down explains when.

Route Aircraft Passengers Price, one way
Farnborough - Zaragoza
600 nm
Embraer Phenom 300E 7 from £8,750
Biggin Hill - Zaragoza
605 nm
Cessna Citation CJ3+ 6 from £8,750
London City - Zaragoza
616 nm
Cessna Citation CJ3+ 6 from £8,900
Cardiff - Zaragoza
616 nm
Embraer Phenom 300E 7 from £8,950
London Luton - Zaragoza
638 nm
Embraer Phenom 300E 7 from £9,200
Southampton - Zaragoza
580 nm
Cessna Citation XLS+ 8 from £10,550
Bristol - Zaragoza
611 nm
Cessna Citation XLS+ 8 from £11,000
Birmingham - Zaragoza
674 nm
Cessna Citation XLS+ 8 from £11,900
Newcastle - Zaragoza
835 nm
Learjet 75 Liberty 7 from £13,750
Manchester - Zaragoza
732 nm
Cessna Citation Latitude 8 from £15,700
Leeds - Zaragoza
762 nm
Cessna Citation Latitude 8 from £16,250
Edinburgh - Zaragoza
897 nm
Bombardier Challenger 350 8 from £18,750
Glasgow - Zaragoza
898 nm
Bombardier Challenger 350 8 from £18,750

Zaragoza is cheaper to reach from Britain than Barcelona or Madrid. From Biggin Hill a Citation CJ3+ costs about £8,750 into Zaragoza, £9,100 into Barcelona and £9,800 into Madrid, and a Challenger 350 about £13,550, £14,050 and £15,150. A Gulfstream G450 is about £19,300 into Zaragoza. The cabin changes the bill far more than the airport does, so the decision about the field should follow the programme on the ground and the hour of the return.

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 Zaragoza

Zaragoza sits in the middle of a triangle: Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia are each about 300 km away by motorway, and a high-speed train reaches Madrid in about 75 minutes and Barcelona in about 90. That arithmetic shapes the onward flights. The domestic hops are short and the train is a real rival, so the sectors that earn their price are the Balearics, Paris, Lisbon and the Riviera. Typical one-way prices:

Route Aircraft Price, one way
SPAIN · MADRID, BARCELONA AND VALENCIA
Zaragoza - Madrid
140 nm
Embraer Phenom 300E
up to 8 passengers
from £5,700
Zaragoza - Barcelona
148 nm
Embraer Phenom 300E
up to 8 passengers
from £5,700
Zaragoza - Valencia
139 nm
Embraer Phenom 300E
up to 8 passengers
from £5,700
THE BALEARICS · A SUMMER SECTOR
Zaragoza - Palma de Mallorca
223 nm
Cessna Citation XLS+
up to 9 passengers
from £6,800
PARIS, LISBON AND THE RIVIERA
Zaragoza - Paris Le Bourget
480 nm
Embraer Phenom 300E
up to 8 passengers
from £7,350
Zaragoza - Lisbon
426 nm
Cessna Citation XLS+
up to 9 passengers
from £8,300
Zaragoza - Nice
399 nm
Cessna Citation XLS+
up to 9 passengers
from £7,900

Onward from Zaragoza: when the aircraft wins and when the train does

Madrid is only 140 nautical miles away and Barcelona 148. In a Phenom either is about 40 minutes in the air, but the high-speed train runs city centre to city centre in 75 and 90 minutes, so an aircraft saves nothing unless the meeting is on the far side of the capital or the party is too large to travel comfortably by train. The legs that pay are the ones no train can make: Palma, Paris, Lisbon, Nice. Spain and France are both inside the Schengen area, so the first landing carries the formalities and the hops after it are free of passport control. One legal point needs a warning: a British-registered aircraft cannot simply carry passengers between two Spanish airports, so a leg such as Zaragoza to Madrid or to Palma is arranged with an EU operator, and we choose the operator accordingly.

Before you accept an onward quote from Aragon

– Who flies the leg. A flight between Britain and Spain is the ordinary case for a British operator, while a Spanish domestic leg, or a hop between Spain and France, can need an EU operator or approval from the national authorities, and we check that before the quote is written, not after it;

– Whether the legs are one booking. Zaragoza to Palma and on to Nice over a long weekend costs noticeably less arranged as one trip, because the aircraft and crew stay with you instead of returning to base between stops.

 

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:

Turbopropsfrom £850/h
Small jet£1,700 - 2,500/h
Light jet£2,100 - 3,000/h
Medium-sized jet (Citation XLS+, Hawker 800XP)£3,000 - 3,700/h
Large medium-class jet (Challenger 300)£4,600 - 5,500/h
Large jet (Legacy 600)£4,900 - 5,800/h
Long-haul jet (Global 5000, G550, Falcon 7X)£5,800 - 8,800/h
Business linersfrom £10,300/h

 

Prices for private jet flights

 

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 Zaragoza:

 

Light jets, the natural fit for a day in the city

Four or five people, ordinary luggage and a programme built around the old town, a business visit or a short drive into the vineyards. Nothing here lacks range, and a small aircraft is the easiest to place on an apron where the handler assigns each stand separately.

HondaJet Elite · 5 seatsfrom £1,900/h
Cessna Citation CJ3+ · 7 seatsfrom £2,400/h
Embraer Phenom 300E · 8 seatsfrom £2,600/h
Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen2 · 8 seatsfrom £2,700/h

Midsize, for skis, wine and a larger party

The luggage grows on an Aragon trip: ski bags and boots for Formigal in winter, cases of Garnacha from Campo de Borja in autumn, walking gear for Ordesa in summer. A midsize cabin carries all of it and lands without effort on either runway.

Learjet 75 Liberty · 8 seatsfrom £3,000/h
Cessna Citation XLS+ · 9 seatsfrom £3,100/h
Cessna Citation Latitude · 9 seatsfrom £3,900/h
Embraer Praetor 600 · 9 seatsfrom £3,400/h

Super-midsize and large, for the long trip

For a team that wants to work in the air, a group travelling as one party, or a trip that carries on to Lisbon, the Gulf or further. The runways have no limit worth mentioning, which is rare for a mid-sized Spanish city. What matters is the stand and the parking time, and both are agreed with the handler before the quote.

Bombardier Challenger 350 · 9 seatsfrom £4,000/h
Bombardier Challenger 605 · 12 seatsfrom £4,350/h
Dassault Falcon 2000LXS · 10 seatsfrom £4,900/h
Gulfstream G450 · 13 seatsfrom £5,800/h

Turboprops

The right aircraft for short hops inside Spain, for example to the Pyrenean airfield at Huesca with its 2,100 m runway, where the saving over a jet on a sector of half an hour is large. Such a leg is flown by an EU operator after the first landing.

Pilatus PC-12 NGX · 9 seatsfrom £1,400/h
Beechcraft King Air 350 · 9 seatsfrom £1,650/h

Helicopters

Not for the flight from Britain but for the edges of the trip: a transfer from the airport to a ski resort, a lunch at a winery, or a loop over the Ebro and the Pilar. Where a helicopter may land is agreed before the quote.

Airbus H125 · 5 seatson request
Airbus H130 · 6 seatson request
Airbus H135 · 6 seatson request
Bell 429 · 6 seatson request

 

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This is a small part of what is available. Zaragoza is not a big base for business jets, so a quote may name Madrid, Barcelona or Pamplona as the positioning point for the aircraft. That is normal for a regional destination, and it is frequently where the better price comes from.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Zaragoza 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 near Zaragoza

Zaragoza has one airport that takes business jets, and a short list of others that matter only when the trip is really about Madrid, Catalonia, Navarre or the high Pyrenees. Which one is right depends on the destination and the hour of the return, not on the make of the jet.

Airport What it gives you
Zaragoza
ZAZ / LEZG
A civil and military airfield west of the city, about 10 km north-west of Zaragoza on the aeronautical information's measure and roughly 14 km from the Plaza del Pilar in a straight line, at 263 m above sea level. It has two parallel runways. Runway 12R/30L is 3,718 m and 12L/30R is 3,032 m, and the shorter one carries the Category II/III ILS on runway 30R. Handling is compulsory for every civil operation, business flights included, and the ramp agents listed are SOUTH, Groundforce, Aragonair and United Aviation. Jet A-1 comes from Exolum Aviation and SLCA, and the handlers de-ice at the commercial stands at any hour. The Spanish Air Force flies fighters and A400M transports from the same airfield, and the airport is known above all as a cargo hub, which explains the size of the runways. We have not found a separate business aviation terminal, and there is no hangar space for visiting aircraft. Choose it for any trip to Aragon, and for any heavy jet that wants a long runway
Madrid Barajas
MAD / LEMD
The capital's airport, about 300 km from Zaragoza by motorway and 75 minutes away by the high-speed train. It is open round the clock with customs and immigration on site, takes any business jet, and needs a slot for every movement. Choose it when the programme is mainly in Madrid and Aragon is an excursion by train
Barcelona El Prat
BCN / LEBL
About 10 km south-west of Barcelona, open 24 hours with customs and immigration at any hour and a runway of 3,352 m. It is slot-coordinated: a non-regular operator requests an arrival slot together with the linked departure slot, and between 23:00 and 07:00 local the airport restricts which runways may be used. Seven handlers are listed for general aviation, among them AviaVIP, United Aviation, Execujet, Jetex and Universal Aviation. The high-speed train to Zaragoza takes about 90 minutes. Choose it for a trip that begins in Catalonia and carries on to Aragon
Pamplona
PNA / LEPP
A small field at Noáin with a runway of 2,205 m, open from 06:30 to 23:45 local time, with customs and immigration available on request. Zaragoza is roughly two hours away by road. Choose it for a light or midsize jet when the programme joins Navarre and Aragon
Reus
REU / LERS
The airport of the Tarragona coast, with a runway of 2,459 m, an ILS on runway 25, customs and immigration during aerodrome hours and four listed handlers (SOUTH, United Aviation Services, Jetex and General Aviation Services). It lies about 200 km east of Zaragoza in a straight line. Choose it when Aragon is joined to a stay on the Catalan coast
Huesca-Pirineos
HSK / LEHC
A small Aragonese airfield 9 km south-east of Huesca, with a runway of 2,100 m and no ILS, no customs and no immigration, and hours of 09:00 to 19:00 local in summer and 09:00 to 17:00 in winter. Handling needs 18 hours' notice and fuel 48 hours'. It is a useful point for the Pyrenees but never a first landing from Britain, so a flight from London arrives at Zaragoza or another border airport and any hop to Huesca is a domestic leg flown by an EU operator. Choose it for the second leg of a ski or mountain trip

Four things to settle before a Zaragoza landing:

The airfield and its handlers

Handling is compulsory at Zaragoza, and passengers and crew wait for the handler on arrival. The aeronautical information names four ramp agents, SOUTH, Groundforce, Aragonair and United Aviation, who serve commercial and general aviation traffic alike. The handler is booked with the flight plan, not on the day.

Hours, slots and parking

The Spanish aeronautical information publishes its default times in UTC. Converted to local time, which is UTC+1 in winter and UTC+2 in summer, the civil airport is open from 06:45 to 23:00 all year, with prior permission needed outside those hours. General aviation depends on apron capacity and needs a slot requested through the operations office at least three hours ahead. The snow plan runs from 1 December to 31 March.

Border and passport

Spain is in Schengen and Britain is not, so you clear the border at the first landing. Customs for civil flights is available at any hour, and immigration follows the airport hours, 06:45 to 23:00 local. British passport holders need no visa for up to 90 days in any 180, with a passport issued less than ten years before arrival and valid for at least three months beyond the day of departure. A first-time visitor is asked to register a photograph and fingerprints at the EU border system, which is free and adds a few minutes.

Car and the old town

The airport stands west of the city and a drive to the centre typically takes 20 to 25 minutes. Give us the meeting point and the hotel as well as the flight, because during the Fiestas del Pilar the streets around the Plaza del Pilar are closed or crowded and the driver needs a place to wait. A late arrival works: the field stays open until 23:00 local time.

 

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Border, passport and the military neighbour

The first landing in the Schengen area is where the formalities happen. At Zaragoza civil customs is available at any hour, immigration runs with the airport hours, and the crew sends the details with the flight plan so that the officer is there when the wheels touch. If the arrival falls outside 06:45 to 23:00 local time, prior permission is needed, and for an arrival after dark Madrid or Barcelona, both open round the clock, is the simpler answer. The airfield is shared with the Spanish Air Force, which keeps its own aprons and its own customs arrangements, and for a civil passenger this means little beyond a few rules in the aeronautical information, which asks civil traffic to watch for military movements and allows simultaneous operations on the two runways only in good visual conditions. After the landing the road is open. Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia are inside Schengen, and France lies just over the Pyrenees, with normally no passport check, although a temporary control can be introduced at short notice, so carry your passports. For the return to Britain, the General Aviation Report is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure.

 

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From the apron to the Plaza del Pilar

Zaragoza is a city of about 690,000 people on the Ebro, the capital of Aragon, and it sits roughly the same distance, about 300 km by motorway, from Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao. Augustus founded it as Caesaraugusta, from which the name comes. It was a Moorish capital of the Upper March and then a taifa kingdom before the king of Aragon took it in the twelfth century, and the layers show in the centre: Roman remains and a forum museum, a palace of the Moorish kings, two cathedrals and a riverside that was rebuilt for a world fair. The climate is semi-arid, summers are hot, and in winter a cold dry north-westerly called the cierzo sweeps along the valley.

Airport to the Plaza del Pilar
the basilica, La Seo and the old town
about 14 km in a straight line, typically 20 to 25 min
Zaragoza to Fuendetodos
Goya's birthplace and the etching museum
about 44 km
Zaragoza to the Cariñena cellars
the nearest of the three wine regions
29 to 56 km
Zaragoza to the Campo de Borja cellars
the Garnacha country at the foot of the Moncayo
57 to 71 km
Zaragoza to Huesca
the Gothic cathedral and the road into the Pyrenees
about 71 km
Zaragoza to the Calatayud cellars
vineyards on the slopes of the Sierra de la Virgen
88 to 125 km
Zaragoza to Alcañiz
MotorLand Aragón, the circuit of the MotoGP round
about 99 km
Zaragoza to Monasterio de Piedra
the Cistercian monastery and its waterfalls near Nuévalos
about 100 km, about 1 h 30
Zaragoza to Formigal
the largest ski area of the Aragonese Pyrenees
about 170 km, about 2 h 15
Zaragoza to Teruel
the Mudéjar towers and the Lovers
about 170 km, about 1 h 45
Zaragoza to Cerler
the ski resort above the Benasque valley
about 232 km, about 3 h
Zaragoza to Pamplona
the next airport to the north-west, by road
roughly 2 h

 

The Pilar, La Seo and the Aljafería

The Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar is the symbol of the city and the first stop for almost every visitor. It is a Baroque church about 130 m long and 67 m wide, with eleven domes and four towers beside the Ebro. The tradition behind it is that the Virgin appeared to Saint James on the river bank and left a jasper pillar, and a small wooden statue of the Virgin, only 39 cm tall, still stands on a jasper column inside. Goya painted two of the vaults around the Holy Chapel, and his father, a gilder, worked on the rebuilding of the church, which gives the artist a place in the building's own story. Three bombs fell on the church in the Civil War and none exploded; two of them are on display. Visitors can go up the San Francisco de Borja tower for a view over the river and the roofs.

La Seo, the Cathedral of the Saviour, stands a few minutes away on the site of a Roman forum and the main mosque of the Moorish city. Its Romanesque apse, Gothic naves, Mudéjar dome and Parroquieta chapel, and Baroque tower belong to different centuries and still hold together. The museum has one of the best collections of Flemish tapestries from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Two buildings, La Seo and the Aljafería, belong to the UNESCO group Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon, together with several churches elsewhere in the region.

The Aljafería is the Moorish chapter of the story. It was built as a palace for the Moorish ruler of the taifa kingdom in the eleventh century and called the Palace of Joy. Its Golden Hall, with interlaced arches, and the small prayer room with a mihrab survive from that time, and the Catholic Monarchs added a throne room with a carved ceiling. The Troubadour Tower, from which the story of Verdi's opera Il trovatore takes its name, is the older defensive core. The building is now the seat of the regional parliament, the Cortes of Aragon, so the hours of the visit depend on the sessions, and we confirm them on the day.

 

The Expo meander and the Ebro

The city's modern face lies on the river, west of the old town. The world exposition on the theme of water and sustainable development ran here from mid-June to mid-September and drew about 5.6 million visitors. The site covers 25 hectares inside a meander of the Ebro, and several of its buildings were kept. The Water Tower rises 76 m, the Bridge Pavilion by Zaha Hadid links the district of La Almozara to the site across a central island, and the aquarium, the largest freshwater aquarium in Europe, has operated since the fair. It is the newer side of Zaragoza, a place for the riverside walk and the aquarium rather than for sightseeing in the old sense.

 

The Fiestas del Pilar: the week of 12 October

The city's great festival is the week around 12 October, the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, which is also the national holiday. It usually begins on the weekend on or before the 12th and runs to the following Sunday. The core of it is the Ofrenda de Flores on 12 October, when thousands of people in traditional dress file into the Plaza del Pilar and leave flowers at the statue of the Virgin, which are arranged into a mantle that stays in place for the whole festival. The procession can last more than eight hours, and a record of about 450,000 participants has been reported. The following morning brings the Ofrenda de Frutos, a harvest-style procession with fruit mostly from Aragon, and in the evening the Rosario de Cristal, a parade of illuminated glass floats that starts at sunset. Giants and big-headed figures walk the streets daily, concerts run on stages across the city, and the week closes with fireworks over the Ebro.

If your dates include the Fiestas del Pilar

– Book the aircraft and the hotel together, and as early as you can. The central rooms usually fill many weeks ahead, and the apron at Zaragoza is shared with the air force and freighters, so the slot request goes in with the booking and not after it;

– Choose the day of arrival with care. The 12th is the heaviest day of the week and the streets around the square are crowded and partly closed to traffic, so a party that lands on the 10th or 11th usually finds cars and tables easier to get than one that arrives on the morning of the procession;

– Plan the last stretch by car, not by chance. Tell us where you are staying and we agree the drop-off point and the time with the driver before you leave Britain, because the streets near the Plaza del Pilar are crowded at all hours.

 

Goya and the road to Fuendetodos

Goya was born in Fuendetodos, a village about 44 km from Zaragoza, and grew up in the city, where his father was a gilder at the basilica. His first major commissions came back to Aragon: the Pilar vaults, the frescoes of the Carthusian monastery of Aula Dei and the Sobradiel Palace. His birthplace in Fuendetodos is an eighteenth-century house furnished as it would have been in his lifetime, and an etching museum a few steps away shows four of his series, Los Desastres, Los Caprichos, Los Disparates and La Tauromaquia. The village still has its neveros, the buildings where winter snow was stored and packed into ice for Zaragoza. In the city, Goya works hang in the Museum of Fine Arts and in the Museo Goya - Colección Ibercaja. Fuendetodos lies in the wine country of Cariñena, so the half-day to the village often becomes a day with a cellar and a long lunch.

 

Tapas in El Tubo and a roast lamb

The old town eats well and at a counter. El Tubo is the old-town tapas district, and Doña Casta there is known for croquettes. Other names that come up are Los Victorinos on the Plaza de Santa Marta, Cervino and Melí Meló. The dish to order at a table is ternasco asado, roast young lamb, and the Ebro garden supplies borage, peppers, thistles and sweet onions. Sweets are a local habit: guirlache, an almond nougat, and the soletilla biscuits. A good local oil from the Lower Aragon, a protected denomination, appears on most tables. Tables in the old town are scarce in the week of the Pilar, so send us the dates you hold before the aircraft is quoted, not after it.

 

The Aragonese Pyrenees: Huesca, Ordesa and the ski resorts

The Pyrenees begin north of Huesca, a city of about 55,000 people 71 km from Zaragoza. Its Gothic cathedral has an alabaster high altar carved in the sixteenth century by Damián Forment, and the abbey of San Pedro el Viejo is one of the oldest Romanesque buildings on the peninsula. The festival of San Lorenzo fills the city from 9 to 15 August. The Sierra de Guara, which reaches 2,077 m, rises just beyond it.

The high mountains lie further north. Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park covers 156 square kilometres and is part of a cross-border UNESCO site with the French Pyrenees. Monte Perdido is 3,355 m high. In the season, roughly June to early November, private cars are not allowed into the Ordesa valley and a shuttle bus runs from the car park at Torla, with a ceiling of 1,800 people in the valley at one time. By road the park is typically well over two hours from Zaragoza, and a day trip works only with an early start, which is why many parties stay a night in Torla.

Winter belongs to the ski areas. Formigal-Panticosa, in the Tena valley, is the largest, with about 180 km of marked runs from a base at 1,500 m to a top of 2,250 m. Cerler, above the Benasque valley, has about 70 to 77 km of runs, and Candanchú, close to the French border and about 30 km from Jaca, has about 40 km. From Zaragoza airport Formigal is about 170 km and a drive of about 2 h 15, and Cerler about 232 km and some three hours. The closer Huesca-Pirineos airfield cuts Cerler to about 143 km, but it has no border control, so it works only as a second leg after a first landing at Zaragoza. The usual solution is to land at Zaragoza, clear the border, and either drive or fly on by helicopter.

 

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Monasterio de Piedra

About 100 km west of Zaragoza, near Nuévalos, stands the Monasterio de Piedra, a drive of about an hour and a half. Alfonso II of Aragon founded it for Cistercian monks from Poblet, and the church was consecrated in the thirteenth century. The monks left in the nineteenth century, and a Catalan merchant, Pablo Muntadas, bought the buildings, and his family shaped the grounds into a garden park along the Piedra river. The park has lakes, grottoes, backwaters and old trees, and waterfalls, among them the Cola de Caballo, which falls more than 50 m. A visit to the garden usually takes about two hours. The old monastery is now a quiet hotel, and the park is open all year. The monastery is also said to be where chocolate was first made in Europe, after a friar travelling with Cortés sent cocoa and a recipe home. For a private client it is a good half-day: it lies in the Calatayud area, and a cellar and a lunch are an easy addition.

 

Teruel, the Lovers and Albarracín

Teruel lies about 170 km south of Zaragoza, a drive of roughly 1 h 45, and it stands at 915 m above sea level, with about 36,700 residents. It is known as the town of Mudéjar: four of its monuments, including the cathedral, belong to the UNESCO group, and the towers of El Salvador and San Martín date from the fourteenth century. The local legend is the Lovers of Teruel, Isabel de Segura and Diego de Marcilla, whose story ended tragically and whose mummified remains lie in the San Pedro mausoleum. The story inspired writers and an opera. Teruel marks it with the Bodas de Isabel de Segura on the third weekend of February, and the other great date is La Vaquilla del Ángel, on the weekend closest to 10 July.

Dinópolis, on the edge of the city, is one of the largest palaeontology museums in the world, with a life-size robotic T. rex and halls on aquatic life, dinosaurs, mammals and meteorites. It belongs to Territorio Dinópolis, a chain of eight sites that includes Mar Nummus in Albarracín and Legendark at Galve, and it suits a family stop. Teruel has its own airport, but it is used for aircraft storage and maintenance and has no passenger traffic, so the way in is Zaragoza, or Valencia, which lies 157 km from Teruel.

Albarracín is another 37 km on, about half an hour, a walled town of about a thousand people in a meander of the Guadalaviar river. It was the capital of a Berber dynasty in the eleventh century and then an independent lordship for more than a century before joining the Kingdom of Aragon, and it was declared a national monument. The fortified enclosure extends well beyond the town centre, the cathedral is of the sixteenth century, and the Diocesan Museum holds Flemish tapestries. Sandstone boulders and cliffs surround the town, and the Cultural Park shows rock art thousands of years old. It is a long day from Zaragoza, so most clients combine Teruel and Albarracín with a night.

 

Garnacha country: Cariñena, Campo de Borja and Calatayud

Three wine denominations lie within a morning's drive, each with a distinct character. Cariñena is the nearest, with cellars between 29 and 56 km from Zaragoza, and it is the one to combine with Fuendetodos. Campo de Borja, at the foot of the Moncayo, is the one the region calls the capital of Garnacha. Its wine route has about 5,000 hectares of the grape, more than 2,000 of them 30 to 50 years old, together with centenary vines, and the cellars are 57 to 71 km from the city. The route includes the Cistercian monastery of Veruela and a wine museum, and the wines are grouped in three zones: warm and powerful in the lower valley, complex and dense in the middle, and finer and more elegant in the upper vineyards.

Calatayud is the extreme one. Its vineyards climb the south-facing slopes of the Sierra de la Virgen at 550 to 800 m, with stony, lime-rich soil, a continental climate and frosts for about six months of the year. The cellars are 88 to 125 km from Zaragoza, the route is called the route of the extreme vineyard, and the area also has spas at Alhama de Aragón, Jaraba and Paracuellos de Jiloca. The easy combination is Calatayud with the Monasterio de Piedra. We arrange the driver, the cellar visits and the table at lunch, and a midsize cabin for the return leaves room for the cases.

 

MotorLand Aragón and the MotoGP weekend

The MotorLand Aragón circuit lies at Alcañiz in the province of Teruel, 99 km from Zaragoza. It has a Grand Prix circuit of 5.345 km with 18 turns, a shorter motorcycle layout of 5.078 km and a national circuit of 2.646 km. The MotoGP round of the Aragon Grand Prix is normally held in September, the Superbike World Championship comes in May, and the calendar also holds a Spanish superbike round in July, junior world and European motorcycle series in September, and winter car series in March. The Grand Prix date is set by the series and is not a fixture for ever, so we check whether the round is on the calendar before we quote. The race weekend is the most demanding of the year for a charter: hotels in Alcañiz fill, and clients commonly fly into Zaragoza and cover the last hour or so by road or by helicopter.

 

PLAZA and the logistics hub

A great deal of the traffic at Zaragoza airport has nothing to do with tourism. PLAZA, the logistics platform beside the airport, covers about 1,300 hectares and is built around an intermodal centre linking rail, road and air. Inditex has operated there since the early years of the century, Amazon has a logistics centre there, and hundreds of companies are based on the platform. Around it stand the car plant at Figueruelas, which opened in the eighties and carries the Opel name, the rail rolling stock builder CAF and the appliance maker Balay. Cargo airlines such as Cargolux, Qatar Airways Cargo, Emirates SkyCargo and Saudia Cargo use the airport, and the Space Shuttle programme once listed it as an abort landing site because of its long runway. Business clients typically come for a plant visit or a logistics meeting and return the same day, a pattern that suits the airport very well: customs is available at any hour, the platform is a short drive from the apron, and the 3,032 m runway never limits the aircraft.

 

Flying to Zaragoza with a dog or a cat

For a pet the paperwork is the hard part of an Aragon trip, and the flight is the easy bit: the animal sits beside you in the cabin, never in a hold, and on a sector of under two hours most simply sleep. The date on the health certificate is the detail that goes wrong, because the certificate is valid for only ten days for entry to the EU.

 

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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.

What catches owners out on the Zaragoza run

– Spain does not ask for a tapeworm treatment on the way in, only Britain asks for it on the way home, so book a vet in Zaragoza for the end of the stay. Count back from the departure time, because the window is 24 to 120 hours and a flight that moves by a day can move the window out of reach;

– The order of the chip and the vaccine matters. A vaccination given before the microchip does not count, and an animal that arrives without the right paperwork can be refused entry, so the certificate is checked line by line before the flight, not at the airfield;

– The week of the Fiestas del Pilar is a poor choice for a nervous animal, with fireworks over the river and crowds around the basilica. A dog is much happier on a day among the vines of Campo de Borja or in the cool of the Piedra gardens, and we check the hotel's policy before the quote.

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 Zaragoza calendar: one great week, a ski winter and a long wine season

Zaragoza has one week that dominates the autumn, a winter that belongs to the mountains and a long stretch from spring to harvest when the wine country and the monasteries are at their best. Knowing which of them you want matters more than choosing an aircraft.

January to March
The ski season in the Aragonese Pyrenees is typically at its height, with Formigal, Cerler and Candanchú all running. Teruel holds the Bodas de Isabel de Segura on the third weekend of February, Holy Week brings processions that move with Easter, and MotorLand hosts winter car series in March. In winter the cierzo, the cold dry north-wester, blows along the valley, and the airport keeps its snow plan until 31 March
April and May
Spring is the green season in the vineyards and the best time for Albarracín and the Piedra gardens. The Superbike World Championship visits MotorLand in May. Nothing competes for rooms or stands, so this is the simplest time of the year to fly in for a wine day or a long weekend in Teruel
June
The Ordesa shuttle from Torla typically starts running, and the Ebro plain turns hot. A calm month for rooms and stands, with long evenings
July
La Vaquilla del Ángel fills Teruel on the weekend closest to 10 July. The plain around Zaragoza is hot and semi-arid, so the day belongs to the mountains and the Piedra waterfalls, and a heavy cabin loses a little performance on a hot afternoon
August
Huesca celebrates San Lorenzo from 9 to 15 August. Zaragoza itself is at its quietest, as many Spanish cities are in the holiday month, and the Pyrenees are at their busiest
September
The MotoGP round at MotorLand is normally held in September, together with junior and European series, and the grape harvest begins in the Aragonese vineyards. A good month for a wine trip, and a demanding one for a race-weekend charter
October
The Fiestas del Pilar, the week around 12 October, with the Ofrenda de Flores on the 12th, the Ofrenda de Frutos and the Rosario de Cristal on the 13th, and fireworks at the end. The 12th is also the national holiday, which makes the whole week the tightest of the year for rooms, cars and stands
November and December
Quiet in the city, with the ski areas starting to open towards the end of the year. The airport snow plan begins on 1 December, so the quote names Madrid or Barcelona as a fallback for a winter evening arrival. Christmas is calm and a good time for the table

Why a Pilar week costs more

The aircraft are rarely the problem. The European light and midsize fleet is large and Aragon is within reach of it. What gets tight is the apron at Zaragoza, where general aviation depends on capacity, the airport needs a slot request, and the air force and the freighters use the same airfield, and the good hotel rooms and cars, which peak together with the national holiday. A booking made two weeks before the festival can still be done, but it may mean landing at Madrid, Barcelona or Pamplona and driving, or an aircraft positioned from further away, and that costs more. The same booking made six to eight weeks earlier is simpler and cheaper. Outside that week and the ski weekends a charter to Zaragoza can usually be arranged in a day or two.

 

Ways to bring the Zaragoza price down

  • Move the dates by a day or two where you can. The 10th and 11th of October are calmer than the 12th itself, and so are the days after the closing Sunday, and a midweek ski arrival is easier to place than a Friday one;
  • Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits in Madrid, Barcelona or Pamplona 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 £8,000 into Pamplona, £8,750 into Zaragoza, £9,100 into Barcelona, £9,150 into Reus and £9,800 into Madrid, so the difference is small and the programme on the ground should decide.

 

Types of flights

Zaragoza produces a different mix from the coastal or the Alpine destinations we cover, because it is a mid-sized city in the middle of a large region, with a festival, a mountain range, a motor circuit and a logistics platform all within a few hours of one airport.

  • City breaks and the Fiestas del Pilar, from a long weekend to the whole week, centred on the basilica, La Seo and the old town;
  • Ski trips, landing at Zaragoza and driving or flying on to Formigal, Cerler or Candanchú;
  • Wine and monastery days, with Cariñena, Campo de Borja, Calatayud and the Monasterio de Piedra;
  • Teruel and Albarracín, a night in the south of Aragon, with Dinópolis for families;
  • Motor-sport weekends, MotoGP or Superbike, with the last hour to Alcañiz by road or helicopter;
  • Business visits to PLAZA, the car plant or the rail works, with a same-day return.

The day trip is the one to look at closely. Land at about twenty to eleven, leave Zaragoza at five in the afternoon local time and you are back on the British side by about twenty to six in the evening, UK time, with about six hours on the ground in between. 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. 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. Zaragoza has no large based business-jet fleet, so the legs come from the rhythm of weekends, ski seasons and festivals, and it helps to know what produces them.

Where Zaragoza empty legs come from

– Ski weekends. Aircraft that bring a party in on the Friday and leave empty on the Sunday, or arrive empty to collect one, put a leg towards Britain on the market in the weeks from January to March;

– The Pilar. Jets that bring guests in for the festival and return empty after the 12th offer legs in the days that follow, and the days before it produce the opposite flow;

– Spanish loops. Operators moving aircraft between Madrid, Barcelona and Pamplona put short hops on the market, and those hops can be cheap.

Because the airport sees few based jets, the choice of empty legs into Zaragoza is thinner than into Madrid or Barcelona, and a client who is open to those airports widens it considerably. 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 Zaragoza match the day an operator releases it.

 

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Helicopter charter

In Aragon a helicopter solves a problem of geography, because the places worth seeing lie in different directions and each is a morning's drive or more. The airport treats helicopters like fixed-wing aircraft: there is no dedicated helicopter area, a helicopter may land on the runway when air traffic control clears it, the take-off and landing area is runway 12L/30R, and the air-taxi positions are stands 1 and 16. Helicopter operations are limited to the hours between sunrise and sunset, and a follow-me vehicle guides the machine on the apron, so an evening transfer is not possible.

A flight over the Ebro and the Pilar
the basilica, La Seo, the Aljafería and the Expo meander
about 20 minutes
Fuendetodos and the Cariñena vineyards
Goya's village and the cellars, then back over the plain
about 40 minutes
Monasterio de Piedra
a landing site arranged near the park, for a morning among the waterfalls
about 35 minutes each way
Huesca and the Sierra de Guara
the Gothic cathedral and the first ridges of the Pyrenees
about 30 minutes each way
Formigal and the Tena valley
a transfer to the ski area, landing at an agreed site
about 50 minutes each way

Before you plan around a helicopter

– A helicopter cannot land wherever it likes. A landing away from an aerodrome needs an agreed site and the landowner's consent, and a flight over a protected area such as the Ordesa national park needs permissions of its own, so we check the status of a courtyard, a ski-resort pad or a winery before the quote is written, not after it;

– Weather sets the schedule. The cierzo, Pyrenean cloud and winter snow can stop a helicopter on a day when the jet lands without trouble, so a transfer needs a road alternative planned into the same day;

– A flight across the border into France means a second set of permissions. Tell us the landing site at the other end when you ask for the quote, and book the helicopter together with the jet.

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.

 

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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 Zaragoza 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.

 

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Flights from the UK to Zaragoza

Farnborough, Biggin Hill, London City and Luton 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

 

Zaragoza 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.

FIESTAS DEL PILAR · A WEEKEND IN THE OLD TOWN

Arrive before the Ofrenda, leave after the fruit procession

Farnborough - Zaragoza, Phenom 300E, about 1 h 40 min · 4 pax

The hotel came first, and the slot request for the apron went in the same day, because the airfield is shared with the air force and the freighters. We landed the party on the 10th, two days before the procession, so that the car and the table were not a scramble, and the return left on the 13th. The client watched the flowers go up to the Virgin from a hotel balcony and ate in El Tubo in the evenings.

A SKI WEEKEND · FORMIGAL

Landing at Zaragoza, then the road to the Tena valley

Southampton - Zaragoza, Citation XLS+, about 1 h 40 min · 6 pax

Six people with ski bags and boots, so a midsize cabin was quoted beside the light jet. The aircraft landed at Zaragoza, cleared the border there and the party went on by two cars, about 170 km and a little over two hours. The return was set for the Sunday afternoon, with room in the schedule for the road, because the mountain road is the part of the trip that cannot be hurried.

WINE AND A MONASTERY · CALATAYUD

A private driver, two cellars and a waterfall park

London Luton - Zaragoza, Phenom 300E, about 1 h 45 min · 5 pax

A morning in the vineyards on the slopes of the Sierra de la Virgen, a lunch, and the afternoon among the waterfalls of the Monasterio de Piedra. The aircraft waited at Zaragoza, and the party flew home with three cases of Garnacha, which is why we quoted a midsize cabin next to the light jet.

A BUSINESS DAY · PLAZA

Landing before ten, back in Britain before dark

London City - Zaragoza, Citation CJ3+, about 1 h 50 min · 3 pax

Three people for a plant visit and a lunch meeting at the logistics platform. Civil customs works at any hour, so the early arrival raised no question, and the car from the handler covered the short drive to the platform. The aircraft and crew waited on the apron, and the day return was quoted beside an overnight, because a meeting that overruns is the commonest reason for a night in Zaragoza.

A DOG ON BOARD · THE PAPERWORK FIRST

Four adults and a spaniel for a long weekend

Cardiff - Zaragoza, Phenom 300E, about 1 h 45 min · 4 pax + dog

The Animal Health Certificate had to be dated inside ten days of arrival, and the vet appointment in Zaragoza for the tapeworm treatment had to fall between 24 and 120 hours before the flight home. We booked both with the aircraft, the hotel accepted the dog, and the whole thing was settled in a single exchange of messages rather than three.

EMPTY LEG · SUNDAY EVENING NORTH

A jet already going your way

Zaragoza - Farnborough, Phenom 300E empty leg, about 1 h 40 min · 3 pax

The aircraft had brought a party in for the weekend and was going home empty. The client gave us a three-day window instead of a date, which is what makes these work, and paid well below a fresh one-way charter for a Sunday afternoon departure to the south of England.

 

Frequently asked questions about flying to Zaragoza

1How long is a private jet flight from London to Zaragoza?

About 1 hour 40 minutes from Farnborough in a Phenom, around 1 hour 45 minutes from Luton or Cardiff and 1 hour 50 minutes from Biggin Hill or London City in a Citation CJ3+, covering roughly 600 to 616 nautical miles. From Birmingham or Manchester allow about 1 hour 55 minutes to 2 hours, and from Edinburgh or Glasgow around 2 hours 20 minutes. Spain is one hour ahead of Britain, so an eight o'clock departure lands at about twenty to eleven local time.

2How much does a private jet to Zaragoza cost?

From about £8,750 one way on a Phenom 300E out of Farnborough, £8,750 on a CJ3+ from Biggin Hill, and £8,900 from London City. A midsize cabin runs £10,550 to £11,900 from the south and the Midlands, and from Scotland allow about £18,750. The week of the Fiestas del Pilar in October and the ski weekends in winter can price above these figures.

3Which airport should a private jet use for Zaragoza?

Zaragoza airport (ZAZ / LEZG), west of the city, has runways of 3,718 m and 3,032 m, handling is compulsory, and the civil airport is open from 06:45 to 23:00 local time. The Spanish aeronautical information gives its times in UTC, so the local hours are the same all year. Madrid (MAD / LEMD) and Barcelona (BCN / LEBL) are open round the clock and are the alternatives for a late arrival, and Pamplona (PNA / LEPP) and Reus (REU / LERS) suit a trip that joins Aragon to Navarre or Catalonia.

4Do I need a visa or customs clearance for Zaragoza?

Britain is outside Schengen and Spain is inside it, so you clear passport control and customs at the first landing. At Zaragoza civil customs is available at any hour and immigration follows the airport hours, 06:45 to 23:00 local time. British passport holders need no visa for up to 90 days in any 180, with a passport issued less than ten years ago and valid for three months beyond departure. The operator and our team handle the aircraft paperwork.

5Can I fly to Zaragoza for the Pyrenees and the ski resorts?

Yes, with a road or helicopter transfer after the landing. Formigal is about 170 km from Zaragoza airport, roughly 2 hours 15 minutes by road, and Cerler about 232 km, around three hours. Huesca-Pirineos airfield is closer to the mountains, but it has no customs or immigration, so a flight from Britain lands at Zaragoza first. We can book the helicopter alongside the jet, subject to daylight and weather.

6Can I take my dog to Zaragoza on a private jet?

Yes. The dog travels in the cabin with you, and an EU country such as Spain asks for a microchip fitted before or with the rabies vaccination, a vaccination given at 12 weeks or older and at least 21 days old, and an Animal Health Certificate valid for ten days for entry. A British pet passport cannot be used. Spain does not ask for a tapeworm treatment on the way in, but a dog needs one from a vet between 24 and 120 hours before arriving back in Britain. Cats are exempt from the treatment.

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