Private Jet from Denver, US (APA) to Scottsdale, US (SCF)

Private jet charter from Denver to Scottsdale

The route from Denver (APA) to Scottsdale (SCF) covers approximately 913 km, with a median block time of 1h 35m on flights we actually tracked.

Over the last 12 months we tracked 561 private jet flights between Denver and Scottsdale — about 47 departures a month, so aircraft are rarely far from either end.

Median block time on tracked flights is 1h 35m, about 31 minutes longer than a straight distance-and-cruise-speed estimate — taxi, routing and traffic flow account for the difference.

The Embraer Phenom 300 dominates the route, accounting for 32% of tracked movements, followed by the Cessna Citation Latitude and the Cessna Citation Excel — a useful sanity check when a broker offers you something much larger or much older.

Traffic is strongly seasonal — October carried 64 flights against 28 in July, a 2.3× swing. Expect tighter availability and firmer quotes at the peak.

Denver sits at 5,885 ft (1,794 m) above sea level. Thin air stretches the take-off run, so operators trim payload or fuel on warm days — one reason quotes from here read higher than the distance suggests.

Flying back from Scottsdale is 12 minutes quicker: 1h 23m against 1h 35m on this direction, measured on tracked flights. Winds aloft run west to east at these latitudes, so the eastbound leg rides the jet stream and the westbound one fights it. Plan a there-and-back with different block times, not one figure doubled — the Scottsdale to Denver leg has its own page with its own numbers.

The smallest cabin that covers 913 km without a fuel stop is the very light jet at $1,500-4,500 an hour, and the type most often quoted here is the Bombardier Challenger 350. How the hourly rate turns into a total is set out in the private jet cost guide, and if the dates are loose it is worth checking empty leg flights on this direction first.