TEB → VNY
Private jet charter, New York to Los Angeles
The classic transcontinental. It is the leg where the difference between a midsize and a super-midsize stops being about comfort and starts being about whether you stop for fuel.
- Distance
- 2,150 nm
- Block time
- about 5h–5h 45m westbound, 4h 15m–5h eastbound
- Airports
- TEB → VNY
The airports
This route is flown Teterboro (TEB) to Van Nuys (VNY). Business-aviation fields are where most of the time saving on a private flight actually comes from — the aircraft is a smaller part of it than people expect. You arrive minutes before departure, walk to the aircraft, and clear customs on the ramp rather than in a hall.
Other fields serve both cities and may suit you better depending on where you are starting and finishing. We check that against your actual address rather than defaulting to the best-known airport.
What actually constrains this leg
- Westbound against the jet stream is the demanding direction. A midsize jet that flies it nonstop in summer may need a fuel stop in January.
- A fuel stop adds 45–60 minutes on the ground. If nonstop matters, it has to be specified when the quote is requested, not assumed.
- The three-hour time-zone gain eastbound makes early departures unusually productive on this route.
Aircraft
Categories that fly this nonstop
In normal conditions and with a typical load. Winter headwinds and a full cabin can push a marginal category into a fuel stop, which we check before quoting rather than on the day.
- Super-midsize jet8–10 seats · 3,000–3,900 nmNot a transatlantic aircraft in every wind. Check the specific leg rather than the category.
- Heavy jet10–16 seats · 3,900–5,000 nmNeeds longer runways and more handling, which rules out some of the smaller fields a light jet can use.
- Ultra-long-range jet12–19 seats · 6,000–7,700 nmThe most expensive category to position. If the aircraft is not already near you, that repositioning is on the quote.
What this costs
We do not publish a figure for this route, and we would treat one on somebody else's site with suspicion. Charter is priced per aircraft per leg, and the biggest variable is whether a suitable aircraft is already near New York or has to be positioned in. That moves the price by thousands and it changes day to day.
Send us the dates and you get the real number, itemised — aircraft and crew time, positioning, landing and handling at both ends, taxes, and our fee as its own line. The charter page sets out how it is built.
