New York to Las Vegas

Round-trip quotes total about 9.3 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: super-midsize jet: Citation X, Challenger 300, Gulfstream G200 and Citation Sovereign+; heavy jet: Falcon 2000, Challenger 601, Gulfstream IV and Challenger 850. The category we are asked for most often here is super-midsize jet (7 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 6 heavy jet round trip quotes on this route span $92,473 to $105,427 through the middle 50% alone, a 13% 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.

$8,977 an hour on the super-midsize jet (round trip) and $10,660 an hour on the heavy jet (round trip), taking each median quote over its block time. We publish an hourly figure only where the leg is long enough for one to mean anything. Below an operator's billing minimum the quote is the minimum charge, and dividing it by the hours produces a number that describes nothing.

Of the categories we hold enough quotes to publish on this route, the lowest median is super-midsize jet at $81,958 round trip. 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.