TEB → OPF
Private jet charter, New York to Miami
The most chartered domestic leg in the United States, and the one where light jets earn their keep. Opa-locka and Fort Lauderdale Executive are both closer to most Miami destinations than Miami International.
- Distance
- 950 nm
- Block time
- about 2h 30m–3h
- Airports
- TEB → OPF
The airports
This route is flown Teterboro (TEB) to Opa-locka Executive (OPF). 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
- Demand is heavily seasonal and directional. Southbound before a holiday weekend and northbound after it are the two hardest times to source an aircraft at short notice.
- This is a prime empty-leg corridor precisely because so much traffic runs one way at once.
- Several Florida fields have noise curfews. Confirm the arrival slot before committing to a late departure.
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.
- Light jet6–8 seats · 1,500–2,300 nmYou cannot stand up. On anything over two hours that starts to matter.
- Midsize jet7–9 seats · 2,000–3,000 nmCoast-to-coast westbound against winter headwinds can still force a fuel stop.
- Super-midsize jet8–10 seats · 3,000–3,900 nmNot a transatlantic aircraft in every wind. Check the specific leg rather than the category.
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We do not publish a figure for this route, and we would treat one on somebody else's site with suspicion.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.
