Golf trips by private jet

A golf party is close to the ideal empty leg passenger. Four to eight people travelling together, a week that can usually move by a day, and a destination chosen from a shortlist rather than fixed by a meeting. The aircraft costs the same whether one of you is on it or eight, so the cost per head falls exactly as the group grows.

What decides the trip is not the flight, it is the clubs. This page covers where the sectors run from Britain, what they cost, and the baggage arithmetic that turns a cheap quote into a problem at the aircraft steps.

Why golf trips and empty legs work together

Where British golfers fly, and from which airport

The quote that looks cheapest usually cannot carry your clubs

What a golf flight costs

Guide prices for the whole aircraft in pounds, one way from London. The empty leg column is what a repositioning sector typically starts at when one exists on the route, and the aircraft shown is one that will actually take the clubs for that party size.

Divide by the party and the figures land somewhere a golf society can discuss. A Citation XLS+ to Palma at 7,400 GBP is around 925 GBP a head with eight playing, and the clubs travel inside that price rather than on top of it.

Air Passenger Duty is charged per passenger on the UK departure and appears as its own line. On flights leaving Scotland it is replaced by the Scottish Air Departure Tax from 1 April 2027. Clubs add nothing to either.

Empty leg sectors available now

What our operator network has released at the moment. If something here suits your week, say so quickly, because Iberian sectors in the spring go the same day they appear.

Tell us the week and the course

Nothing on the list today does not mean nothing next week. Register the route and we will watch every airport that serves it, and tell you how many bags the aircraft we find will actually take.

The golfing year, and what it does to prices

How many sets of clubs fit in which aircraft

The question that decides the trip. The figures below assume standard travel bags in soft covers, carried alongside one overnight bag per passenger. They are a planning guide rather than a guarantee, because individual aircraft differ in how the compartment is shaped and where the door sits.

Four things that change those numbers

• Hard cases cost you two bags. A rigid travel case is longer, wider and unyielding, and it cannot be angled into a corner the way a soft cover can. On a light jet a single hard case can take the space of two soft ones, which is why we ask which you are bringing.
• Trolleys and shoe bags count. An electric trolley with its battery is bulky and the battery has its own rules. Push trolleys, spare shoes and waterproofs are what actually fill the gaps around the clubs.
• Weight matters as well as space. A full travel bag runs to fifteen kilos or more. Eight of them weigh more than an extra passenger, and on a short runway on a warm day that can be the difference between a full fuel load and a stop.
• Sending the clubs ahead is a real option. Courier services move a bag door to door for roughly 35 to 100 pounds each way. If the sector you want is perfect apart from the hold, that is often the cheaper trade, and hiring at the course is the other.

Questions about golf flights

• • How many of us does it take to make this sensible?

  • Four is where the conversation starts and six to eight is where it becomes obvious. A Citation XLS+ to Palma at 7,400 GBP is 1,850 a head for a fourball and 925 for eight, so the same aircraft is either extravagant or reasonable depending purely on how many of you are in it.

    Send us the number and we will price it against airline fares on your dates so you can see the crossover for yourself rather than take our word for it.

• • Can we fly out on an empty leg and come back the same way?

  • Sometimes, and on the Iberian corridors more often than most. They will usually be different aircraft on different days, which is fine for a golf week where the return is a Saturday rather than an hour.

    Where no return sector exists, an empty leg out and a standard charter back still removes a large share of the cost of chartering both ways.

• • Can you land closer to the course than the main airport?

  • Often, and in Scotland it makes a real difference. Dundee is about half an hour from St Andrews against ninety minutes from Edinburgh, and Prestwick sits beside the Ayrshire links. The trade is aircraft size: the smaller fields take smaller aircraft, which brings us back to the clubs.

    Tell us the courses rather than the city and we will work out which combination of field and aircraft gets the whole party and the whole kit there.

• • What about an electric trolley or a rangefinder?

  • Rangefinders and GPS units are no trouble. Electric trolleys are, because the lithium battery falls under the same rules as any other: up to 100 watt hours is routine, 100 to 160 needs the operator's agreement, and above that it does not travel in passenger baggage.

    Many standard trolley batteries sit above that limit, and the large capacity ones always do. Tell us the model and we will check it rather than guess.

• • Can you arrange the tee times as well?

  • We are brokers rather than a golf agency, so we do not hold tee time allocations. What we do arrange is everything between the front door and the first tee: the aircraft, the transfers at both ends, the hotel through our partners and the return.

    If you already have a golf operator handling the courses, we work alongside them and fit the flight around the times they have secured.

Plan the flight for your golf week

Tell us the destination, the week, how many are playing and how many bags. We will come back with the airports that serve the courses, any empty leg that fits, the standard charter price alongside, and a straight answer on whether the aircraft will take the kit.

Call +44 7857 574938 or message the same number on WhatsApp.