Executive and Corporate Jet Charter in Los Angeles
Business in Los Angeles runs on a calendar that published airline schedules rarely match, and a business jet rental is how an executive reaches a remote site, strings two or three meetings across state lines into a single day, and still gets home for dinner.
Los Angeles Private Jets has been arranging business jet rentals and executive charter flights for more than a decade, for companies of every size, from firms with fewer than five people to Fortune 500 organizations. An advisor is on call for your trip 24/7/365, and we source competitively priced, reliable aircraft through our approved operator network. Most of our corporate flights out of Southern California run through Van Nuys (VNY) and Hollywood Burbank (BUR), the two fields that put you closest to the studio corridor, the Westside, and downtown.
Corporate Flight Department Back-Up
Running a corporate flight department is a demanding job. Between regulations, crew medicals, scheduling, dispatch, and pop-up trips, most legs are straightforward point-to-point flying, whether that means a round trip or a multi-leg international itinerary.
Your flight department handles those requests. The harder days are the ones where the answer does not sit in the hangar: the trip needs a larger cabin than the aircraft you own, a mechanical issue strands executives in a remote location a few hours before a board meeting, or your aircraft is booked into scheduled maintenance and someone has to cover the gap.
Some flight managers already have long-standing relationships with local operators. Others have never needed supplemental lift and would rather not build that network under time pressure. Either way, we search our approved operator network on your behalf and take the procurement, finance, and paperwork legwork off your desk.
We work to keep the charter price competitive, and every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we put an option in front of you.
Executive Retreats
Corporations charter for more than the boardroom. A business jet rental is flexible enough for negotiations, conventions, site visits to manufacturing facilities, moving technicians between projects, and the annual retreat.
Retreats and team-building trips are the hardest to coordinate, because the people attending rarely start from the same place. If your teams are spread across different cities, states, or countries, and the nearest commercial airport is hours from where they actually live, getting everyone to one destination on the same day becomes the whole problem. Chartering solves the arrival, not just the flight.
From Los Angeles, the retreats we arrange most often head to Palm Springs, Napa, Aspen, Las Vegas, or across the border to Los Cabos, and we arrange corporate flights well beyond the region when the destination calls for it. Group sizes run from a handful of executives on a light jet up to full-company travel on airliner-size aircraft.
Family Office Aviation
Travel is one of the standing responsibilities inside a family office. Sometimes there is a dedicated aviation division; more often it falls to a travel counselor, a principal’s assistant, or a family member who took it on because someone had to. In some offices the family already owns an aircraft.
We work with family office staff on charter arrangements, and we cover the gaps when a family-owned aircraft is in scheduled maintenance or grounded by a mechanical issue. Between property management, trust and wealth management, legal matters, and succession planning, aviation is rarely the thing anyone has spare hours for.
Safety, privacy, and comfort come first on these trips, and we treat risk management on a family trip exactly as we treat it on a corporate one. Many family offices also keep a plan for urgent travel: a medical transfer, an unplanned relocation, a family meeting that cannot wait. Non-emergency air ambulance and Charter Assist are both services we arrange, and it is worth agreeing how those calls get made before anyone has to make one.
Aircraft That Fit the Business Trip
Most Los Angeles business trips fit comfortably in a light, midsize, or super-midsize jet. The main runway at Van Nuys is around 8,001 feet, which handles that range along with heavy and ultra-long-range aircraft for nonstop legs to the East Coast, Europe, or Asia. Hollywood Burbank Airport (legally Bob Hope Airport) has a 6,886-foot main runway and sits minutes from the major studios.
Aircraft selection comes down to trip distance, the number of passengers, baggage volume, and aircraft and runway performance. Our goal is to narrow the options and send you a short list to choose from. The aircraft gallery covers cabin size and range by category if you want to look before you call.
Vetting Behind Every Trip
Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:
- FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs).
- Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates; reports may be provided on request.
- Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft, along with pilot currency on the specific aircraft type.
- Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.
Part 135 is the FAA’s set of rules for on-demand, for-hire charter. It carries stricter operating, crew, and insurance requirements than FAR Part 91, the rules for private, non-commercial flying that cannot be sold as charter.
Los Angeles Patterns We Plan Around
Corporate travel out of Southern California competes with everything else this region does. Awards season, from January through March, is the busiest window of the year and tightens aircraft supply across the basin, not just for entertainment clients. Coachella pulls capacity toward Palm Springs in April, and the winter holidays and summer are steady leisure peaks.
Timing matters at the departure end too. Van Nuys limits noisier jet departures overnight, roughly 10 PM to 7 AM, and asks operators to avoid late-night flying through its voluntary Quieter Nights program. For a late return from an East Coast meeting day, Hollywood Burbank is often the more practical option, since charter flights are not bound by its voluntary night curfew.
On lead time, we would rather give you a firm number than an optimistic one. Aircraft availability shifts, so for most business trips we suggest coming back to us closer to the travel date for a firm quote.
Contact
For a quote on a Los Angeles business jet rental, head to our contact page or call +1 (888) 987-5387. New requests typically come back the same day. For the vetting work behind every trip, see our safety page, and our services page for everything else we arrange. We have been members of the National Business Aviation Association since 2012.