{
  "_meta": {
    "name": "Private jet charter break-even against business class",
    "description": "Cost per person for a whole-aircraft charter at party sizes of two to twelve, computed per route and per aircraft class from published 2026 European rate bands.",
    "source": "https://mondialjets.nl/guides/private-jet-vs-business-class",
    "methodology": "https://mondialjets.nl/data#charter-break-even",
    "method": "Block hours taken from the flight-time dataset, multiplied by published 2026 European hourly rate bands for each aircraft class, uplifted by 20 to 40 per cent for positioning, crew, landing, handling and fuel, then divided by party size. The business-class fare is the output of the comparison, not an input: the table states what a charter costs per person, which is then compared with published fares.",
    "unitsPerColumn": [
      "Block hours (hour)",
      "Trip cost, low and high (EUR)",
      "Cost per person (EUR)"
    ],
    "temporalCoverage": "2026",
    "lastRecomputed": "2026-09-01",
    "creator": "Mondial Jets",
    "attribution": "Computed by Mondial Jets (https://mondialjets.nl). Free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution and a link to the source page above."
  },
  "generated": "derived from data/flight-times.json and published 2026 European rate bands",
  "rates": {
    "light-jet": {
      "low": 3000,
      "high": 5000
    },
    "midsize-jet": {
      "low": 5500,
      "high": 8500
    },
    "heavy-jet": {
      "low": 10000,
      "high": 15000
    }
  },
  "overhead": {
    "low": 0.2,
    "high": 0.4
  },
  "parties": [
    2,
    4,
    6,
    8,
    10,
    12
  ],
  "seats": {
    "light-jet": 7,
    "midsize-jet": 9,
    "heavy-jet": 12
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "iata": "LCY",
      "city": "London",
      "nm": 181,
      "cls": "light-jet",
      "className": "Light jet",
      "blockTime": "55m",
      "hours": 0.95,
      "tripLow": 3400,
      "tripHigh": 6650,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 1700,
          "high": 3350
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 850,
          "high": 1650
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 550,
          "high": 1100
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "LCY",
      "city": "London",
      "nm": 181,
      "cls": "midsize-jet",
      "className": "Midsize jet",
      "blockTime": "55m",
      "hours": 0.92,
      "tripLow": 6050,
      "tripHigh": 10900,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 3000,
          "high": 5450
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 1500,
          "high": 2750
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 1000,
          "high": 1800
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 750,
          "high": 1350
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "LCY",
      "city": "London",
      "nm": 181,
      "cls": "heavy-jet",
      "className": "Heavy jet",
      "blockTime": "55m",
      "hours": 0.9,
      "tripLow": 10800,
      "tripHigh": 18900,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 5400,
          "high": 9450
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 2700,
          "high": 4750
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 1800,
          "high": 3150
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 1350,
          "high": 2350
        },
        "10": {
          "low": 1100,
          "high": 1900
        },
        "12": {
          "low": 900,
          "high": 1600
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "GVA",
      "city": "Geneva",
      "nm": 368,
      "cls": "light-jet",
      "className": "Light jet",
      "blockTime": "1h 30m",
      "hours": 1.47,
      "tripLow": 5300,
      "tripHigh": 10250,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 2650,
          "high": 5150
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 1300,
          "high": 2550
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 900,
          "high": 1700
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "GVA",
      "city": "Geneva",
      "nm": 368,
      "cls": "midsize-jet",
      "className": "Midsize jet",
      "blockTime": "1h 25m",
      "hours": 1.42,
      "tripLow": 9350,
      "tripHigh": 16850,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 4700,
          "high": 8450
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 2350,
          "high": 4200
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 1550,
          "high": 2800
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 1150,
          "high": 2100
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "GVA",
      "city": "Geneva",
      "nm": 368,
      "cls": "heavy-jet",
      "className": "Heavy jet",
      "blockTime": "1h 20m",
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      "tripLow": 16400,
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      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 8200,
          "high": 14350
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 4100,
          "high": 7150
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 2750,
          "high": 4800
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 2050,
          "high": 3600
        },
        "10": {
          "low": 1650,
          "high": 2850
        },
        "12": {
          "low": 1350,
          "high": 2400
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "NCE",
      "city": "Nice",
      "nm": 528,
      "cls": "light-jet",
      "className": "Light jet",
      "blockTime": "1h 55m",
      "hours": 1.9,
      "tripLow": 6850,
      "tripHigh": 13300,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 3400,
          "high": 6650
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 1700,
          "high": 3350
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 1150,
          "high": 2200
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "NCE",
      "city": "Nice",
      "nm": 528,
      "cls": "midsize-jet",
      "className": "Midsize jet",
      "blockTime": "1h 50m",
      "hours": 1.83,
      "tripLow": 12100,
      "tripHigh": 21800,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 6050,
          "high": 10900
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 3000,
          "high": 5450
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 2000,
          "high": 3650
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 1500,
          "high": 2750
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "NCE",
      "city": "Nice",
      "nm": 528,
      "cls": "heavy-jet",
      "className": "Heavy jet",
      "blockTime": "1h 45m",
      "hours": 1.77,
      "tripLow": 21200,
      "tripHigh": 37100,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 10600,
          "high": 18550
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 5300,
          "high": 9300
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 3550,
          "high": 6200
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 2650,
          "high": 4650
        },
        "10": {
          "low": 2100,
          "high": 3700
        },
        "12": {
          "low": 1750,
          "high": 3100
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "IBZ",
      "city": "Ibiza",
      "nm": 819,
      "cls": "light-jet",
      "className": "Light jet",
      "blockTime": "2h 40m",
      "hours": 2.7,
      "tripLow": 9700,
      "tripHigh": 18900,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 4850,
          "high": 9450
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 2450,
          "high": 4750
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 1600,
          "high": 3150
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "IBZ",
      "city": "Ibiza",
      "nm": 819,
      "cls": "midsize-jet",
      "className": "Midsize jet",
      "blockTime": "2h 35m",
      "hours": 2.6,
      "tripLow": 17150,
      "tripHigh": 30950,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 8600,
          "high": 15450
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 4300,
          "high": 7750
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 2850,
          "high": 5150
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 2150,
          "high": 3850
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "IBZ",
      "city": "Ibiza",
      "nm": 819,
      "cls": "heavy-jet",
      "className": "Heavy jet",
      "blockTime": "2h 30m",
      "hours": 2.5,
      "tripLow": 30000,
      "tripHigh": 52500,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 15000,
          "high": 26250
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 7500,
          "high": 13150
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 5000,
          "high": 8750
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 3750,
          "high": 6550
        },
        "10": {
          "low": 3000,
          "high": 5250
        },
        "12": {
          "low": 2500,
          "high": 4400
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "JMK",
      "city": "Mykonos",
      "nm": 1242,
      "cls": "light-jet",
      "className": "Light jet",
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      "hours": 3.87,
      "tripLow": 13900,
      "tripHigh": 27050,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 6950,
          "high": 13550
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 3500,
          "high": 6750
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 2300,
          "high": 4500
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "JMK",
      "city": "Mykonos",
      "nm": 1242,
      "cls": "midsize-jet",
      "className": "Midsize jet",
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      "tripLow": 24400,
      "tripHigh": 44050,
      "perPerson": {
        "2": {
          "low": 12200,
          "high": 22000
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 6100,
          "high": 11000
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 4050,
          "high": 7350
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 3050,
          "high": 5500
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "iata": "JMK",
      "city": "Mykonos",
      "nm": 1242,
      "cls": "heavy-jet",
      "className": "Heavy jet",
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      "tripLow": 42600,
      "tripHigh": 74550,
      "perPerson": {
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          "low": 21300,
          "high": 37300
        },
        "4": {
          "low": 10650,
          "high": 18650
        },
        "6": {
          "low": 7100,
          "high": 12450
        },
        "8": {
          "low": 5350,
          "high": 9300
        },
        "10": {
          "low": 4250,
          "high": 7450
        },
        "12": {
          "low": 3550,
          "high": 6200
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}