SHORT HOPS
The places airlines don’t fly to.
There are about 700 licensed aerodromes in Europe. Commercial airlines serve roughly 180 of them. The other 520 are the entire point of small-aircraft flying — sandy strips on Formentera, mountain runways carved into ski resorts, a tidal beach in the Outer Hebrides where the schedule depends on the moon.
This is not a private-jet alternative. This is what private flying is for — shortest distances, smallest aircraft, places you cannot otherwise reach. Below: six trips we run regularly, and a tool to help you find the one that fits.
La Mola, Formentera — a single 1,000-metre asphalt strip the Spanish navy opened after the war, a Renault 4 from 1986, and a forty-minute flight from Barcelona.
WHY THIS EXISTS
Small planes go to small places.
The category most people know as “private aviation” is the twelve-seat Gulfstream tier — large jets, transcontinental, the most expensive way to fly that exists. There is a whole other tier underneath it: single-engine turboprops, twin pistons, light jets that seat four. This is the tier where €1,300 buys you the entire aircraft from Barcelona to Mallorca, and €4,800 buys you a weekend in Corsica from Nice.
We do not sell jet cards or memberships. We do not run a search engine. We collect briefs over WhatsApp, query the operators we know, and send three real options by the end of the day. Every operator we use holds a full EASA Air Operator Certificate. Every captain has flown the route before. We carry the brief; the captain carries the plane.
This page is partly a portfolio and partly a permission slip. These trips are not as expensive as you think. The aircraft are not as small as you think. The places they go to are even better than you think.
What suits you?
Three taps. We will show you the trips that match, with indicative pricing for your group, and a one-click WhatsApp brief if anything looks right.
Pick a starting city, a mood, and a group size. We’ll show you the trips that fit, with indicative prices for your party.
Day trip
Lunch in Formentera
Barcelona to a sand-strip lunch on Illetas Beach. Home for dinner.
Piper Meridian (turboprop, 5 seats)
£700/ person, 4 of you
Weekend
Calvi, Saturday Morning
Nice to a Corsican beach by 10:30. Two-Michelin lunch on Sunday.
Cessna Caravan or PC-12
£1,700/ person, 4 of you
Long weekend
Pantelleria, in October
The volcanic Italian island Armani lives on. Long weekend in a dammuso.
Pilatus PC-12 or TBM
£2,800/ person, 4 of you
Prices are indicative, divided across 4 of you. Final quotes depend on dates, operator availability, and exactly which aircraft you fly. We always send three options before you commit.
SIX TRIPS WE RUN
Read the long version.
Each piece below is a fully-priced itinerary — aircraft, hotel, food, driver, every euro accounted for. Pick one to read.
THE AIRCRAFT
Four planes that do most of the work.
The right aircraft depends on the route, the weather, and how many of you there are. We pick. You fly.
the quick one, with a parachute
Cirrus SR22
Single-engine piston, three passengers, the cheapest tier that makes practical sense. Modern glass cockpit, whole-airframe ballistic recovery system. The Tesla of small planes.
from £580/hour
the all-weather one
Piper Meridian / TBM
Pressurised single-engine turboprop, 5–6 seats, can climb above the weather. The plane that does Barcelona–Mallorca, Nice–Calvi, London–Channel Islands without breaking a sweat.
from £950/hour
the workhorse
Pilatus PC-12
Swiss-made, single turbine, eight seats. Goes anywhere a runway exists, including grass and snow. Quiet, comfortable, expensive, worth it. The standard for serious short-hop work.
from £1,400/hour
the rugged one
Britten-Norman Islander
Twin-piston, nine seats, can land on beaches and 600-metre strips. The aircraft of the Hebrides, the Channel Islands, and any island that a normal plane cannot reach.
from £900/hour
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps. WhatsApp, mostly.
1
Tell us the trip
WhatsApp, Telegram, or describe the holiday. Where you are, where you want to be, who you are with, when. We do not need a route — we need a Saturday.
2
We send three options
By that evening: aircraft type, named operator, all-in price for your group, why we picked it, and what could go wrong. Pick one. Or push back and we’ll re-quote.
3
You book by reply
No subscription, no membership, no jet card. You pay the operator directly. We take a small concierge fee, transparent and quoted upfront.
Every operator we work with holds a full EASA Air Operator Certificate. Every captain has flown the route before. If the weather closes in, we re-route or refund — that decision is on us, not on you.
Tell us a Saturday.
Your first request is free. No commitment. Just message us.
Or email concierge@sulu.agency