New York to West Palm Beach

One-way block time on our quotes runs 2.3 to 2.5 hours, fastest on the super-midsize jet. 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: light jet: Citation Encore, Phenom 300, Citation Bravo and Citation CJ3; midsize jet: Learjet 60XR, Hawker 800XP, Hawker 800A and Learjet 60; super-midsize jet: Falcon 50, Challenger 350, Citation X and Gulfstream G200; heavy jet: Challenger 604, Gulfstream IV-SP and Gulfstream IV. The category we are asked for most often here is midsize jet (20 of 59 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 8 heavy jet one-way quotes on this route span $21,515 to $39,813 through the middle 50% alone, a 62% 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.

$6,856 an hour on the light jet (one-way), $8,621 an hour on the midsize jet (one-way), $9,588 an hour on the super-midsize jet (one-way) and $12,817 an hour on the heavy jet (one-way), 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 light jet at $17,210 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.