Right now
The sky, as our tracker sees it this minute.
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Method, before numbers
Where these figures come from, and what they are not.
Every band below is computed the same way, in the open: the European hourly indications we publish in the cost anatomy — €3,000–4,500 per flight hour for a light jet up to €12,000–16,000 for ultra-long-range — multiplied by great-circle flight time plus a 0.35-hour taxi-and-climb allowance. One way, whole aircraft, at a four-seat party, positioning excluded. The aircraft class shown is the one the range mathematics picks; real parties often step up a class for luggage, cabin or comfort, and the quote decides.
What this is not: a quotation, a promise, or a market survey dressed as science. It is our own published arithmetic applied consistently to sixteen routes, so that any two people reading it reach the same number.
The 2026 hub benchmark
Eight hubs, sixteen sectors, one method.
Hub order follows published activity data, not our own preferences: ARGUS TRAQPak's 2025 US departure rankings, WINGX's European city figures and the Gulf's record growth corridors. Where a sector carries a growth number, that number is WINGX's, not ours.
And Istanbul — our home market, sector by sector
WINGX ranks Istanbul among Europe's top business-jet cities at roughly 13,000 departures a year — a serious market, simply not the biggest. Full route guides live at the Istanbul route library.
The same engine prices any route the moment you type it on the search page — these sixteen are simply the ones asked about most. Round trips are not automatically ×2: a same-day return keeps crew waiting, a longer stay may reposition the aircraft; the quote decides.
Where the jets actually depart
Pick a hub. Its busiest private sectors, priced live.
The world's heaviest private-jet origins — Teterboro to Le Bourget — each opening onto the destinations that receive their traffic. Or type any two IATA codes below; the engine is the same.
4,570 large and medium airports by IATA code. Same arithmetic as the table above — nothing hidden in the interactive version.
Availability
When the market actually tightens.
Prices move less than people think; availability moves more. These are the recurring windows where the European and Gulf charter fleets genuinely thin out — drawn from the same verified event calendar that drives our live map:
Outside these windows, hours of notice are usually enough — a truth most of the industry prefers not to publish.
The discount that is real
Empty legs: 25–75% below full charter, with the trade written next to it.
When an aircraft repositions anyway, its empty sector sells at a deep discount — typically 25–75% under the full charter price. The trade is control: the route and window belong to the originating charter, and nothing is confirmed until the operator releases it in writing. For flexible dates it is the single largest saving in this market; for a board meeting it is the wrong tool. The current board is public →
Observed, not estimated
What our own tracker actually saw.
Aeroinis runs a live sweep of 59 business-aviation types — the PIA and LADD privacy fleets included — every five minutes. On a single early-September weekday, successive sweeps found between roughly 110 and 165 aircraft airborne at once across the watched types, the quiet Asian night hours included. That is not a market estimate; it is what the sky showed. The map is public, live, and free to watch →
Coverage note, honestly: community receiver networks see most of Europe and the Gulf well and parts of Asia, Africa and the oceans poorly. A quiet region on the map at 4 AM is an honest quiet, not an empty sky.
Citing this index
Versioned by year, so it can be referenced.
Cite it as: Aeroinis Charter Cost & Availability Index, 2026 edition — aeroinis.com/charter-index-2026. This page will not change under you: corrections are noted in place, and the next edition publishes at its own address in January 2027. If a figure looks wrong, tell us — go@aeroinis.com — and the correction will carry a date.
From benchmark to number
The band is arithmetic. The figure is a quote.
Send one route and the reply is three curated options with the diligence file, within two hours — the family-office standard, whoever is asking.