Los Angeles to San Francisco

One-way block time on our quotes runs about 0.9 hours. Round-trip quotes total about 1.9 hours of block time across both legs. 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: one-way quotes we have flown: Gulfstream G550, Challenger 850, Gulfstream IV-SP and Hawker 900 XP; round trip quotes we have flown: TBM 700, Citation Jet 3, Premier 1 and Gulfstream IV. No single category reaches the five quotes we require before publishing a median here, so the list above is what we have actually put on the route rather than a menu of what could fly 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 2-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 We deliberately do not publish an hourly rate for this route: dividing a minimum charge by the hours flown produces a figure that looks precise and means nothing.

The lowest median we publish on this route is $18,806 one-way, across every aircraft type we have quoted here. 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.