Austin to Dallas

One-way block time on our quotes runs about 0.9 hours. Block time is measured engine-start to engine-shutdown, so it includes taxi at both ends and runs longer than the airborne time a distance calculator returns.

These are types JetLevel has quoted and flown on this exact city pair: turboprop: Pilatus PC-12, King Air 200 and Pilatus PC-12/47E. The category we are asked for most often here is turboprop (5 of 13 quotes), which is a better guide to what is realistically available on the route than a list of everything that could fly it.

They vary more than most buyers expect, and we can show by how much. Our 5 turboprop one-way quotes on this route span $7,750 to $9,890 through the middle 50% alone, a 24% spread on the same category of aircraft. The drivers are aircraft position on the day, one-way repositioning, the specific tail rather than the category, and date. Any single "price" for this route is a point inside that range, which is why we publish the range and the sample behind it.

Because the price is a minimum charge, not an hourly one. Block time on our quotes here is about 0.9 hours, below the 1.3-hour minimum most operators bill on this class of aircraft. Past that point a shorter leg stops reducing the price, and the costs that do not shrink with distance (crew, positioning the aircraft to your departure airport, handling at both ends) are most of what you are paying for. We deliberately do not publish an hourly rate for this route: dividing a minimum charge by the hours flown produces a figure that looks precise and means nothing.

Of the categories we hold enough quotes to publish on this route, the lowest median is turboprop at $8,825 one-way. Below that, the only reliable saving is an empty leg: an aircraft already repositioning in your direction, which trades schedule flexibility for price and only exists when someone else's trip creates it. Current empty leg flights.