Private Jet from Los Angeles, US (LAX) to Denver, US (APA)

Private jet charter from Los Angeles to Denver

The route from Los Angeles (LAX) to Denver (APA) covers approximately 1,358 km, with a median block time of 1h 55m on flights we actually tracked.

124 private flights from Los Angeles to Denver were tracked over the last 12 months — around 10 a month, a steady but not saturated sector.

Median block time on tracked flights is 1h 55m, about 19 minutes longer than a straight distance-and-cruise-speed estimate — taxi, routing and traffic flow account for the difference.

Traffic is strongly seasonal — January carried 16 flights against 3 in May, a 5.3× swing. Expect tighter availability and firmer quotes at the peak.

The Cessna Citation Latitude dominates the route, accounting for 31% of tracked movements, followed by the Bombardier Challenger 350 and the Embraer Phenom 300 — a useful sanity check when a broker offers you something much larger or much older.

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 Denver is 25 minutes slower: 2h 20m against 1h 55m on this direction, measured on tracked flights. The headwind sits on the return leg here, which is why the outbound reads shorter. Plan a there-and-back with different block times, not one figure doubled — the Denver to Los Angeles leg has its own page with its own numbers.

The smallest cabin that covers 1,358 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.