Gulfstream and Ultra-Long-Range Jet Charter Cost per Hour

A Gulfstream charters for $4,900 an hour in its smallest model, the G150, up to $17,000 an hour for the G700, on Paramount Business Jets’ published averages read in October 2026. The ultra-long-range Gulfstreams most people mean, the G600 and G650, run about $15,000 an hour, and Bombardier’s Global 7500 sits level with the G700 at $17,000.

The G650 and Global 7500 sit at the top of what a private individual or company can actually charter, and both clear nearly any nonstop city pair on the planet. Paramount prices the G650 at $15,000 an hour with roughly 7,000 nautical miles of range and typical seating for 14; the Global 7500 runs $17,000 an hour with 7,700 nautical miles and the same typical seating for 14.

Paramount’s ultra-long-range category runs $12,000 to $17,000 an hour. Above it sits what brokers call VIP airliners: converted narrow-body aircraft used by corporate delegations, sports teams, and heads of state. Paramount puts those at $18,000 to $23,000 an hour, seating up to 50 passengers in airliner-sized cabins with stand-up heights to 7 feet. That upper band is a different animal from a G650 or Global 7500, a private jet in name only, closer to a small airline charter.

A third aircraft belongs in this conversation now: the Gulfstream G700, certified in March 2024 and delivering to customers since that April. Paramount prices it at $17,000 an hour, level with the Global 7500 and $2,000 above the G650, for 7,750 nautical miles of range, more than either, and a cabin of 2,603 cubic feet, the largest in the Gulfstream fleet. It clears New York to Hong Kong or London to Los Angeles nonstop, missions that push even a G650 close to its limits. The G700 isn’t a marginal upgrade over its stablemates; it’s the newest Gulfstream with a published charter rate.

Gulfstream charter cost per hour, model by model

Paramount’s aircraft pages give an average hourly rate for these ten Gulfstream models. Read together they show something no single aircraft page does: what each extra thousand miles of range costs.

Gulfstream	Paramount category	Hourly rate	Typical seats	Range
G150	Midsize	$4,900	8	2,294 nm
G200	Super midsize	$7,500	9	3,312 nm
G280	Super midsize	$7,500	9	3,600 nm
G450	Large	$8,500	12	4,350 nm
G500	Large	$10,000	13	5,200 nm
GV	Ultra long range	$12,500	14	6,425 nm
G550	Ultra long range	$14,000	14	6,750 nm
G600	Ultra long range	$15,000	13	6,500 nm
G650	Ultra long range	$15,000	14	7,000 nm
G700	Ultra long range	$17,000	13	7,750 nm

Three things stand out. The G600 and G650 cost the same $15,000 an hour, yet the G650 flies 500 nautical miles farther, so on a long mission it is the better buy at the same price. The older GV delivers 6,425 nautical miles for $12,500, about 92% of the G650’s range for 83% of its hourly rate, which makes it the value pick for a long trip that doesn’t need the last few hundred miles. And at the short end, a G280 costs the same $7,500 as the older G200 while flying nearly 300 miles farther.

Gulfstream’s longest-range model, the G800, isn’t on the list. Gulfstream gives it a maximum range of 8,200 nautical miles and bills it as the world’s longest-range business aircraft, but no broker average for it appears in the tables cited here, so price one by asking for a quote.

Gulfstream vs. Global 7500: what the extra rate buys

Aircraft	Hourly rate	Range	Typical seats
Gulfstream G650	$15,000	~7,000 nm	14
Bombardier Global 7500	$17,000	7,700 nm	14
Gulfstream G700	$17,000	7,750 nm	13

Going from a G650 to a Global 7500 adds roughly 700 nautical miles, 10% more range, for $2,000 more an hour, 13% more money. Going from a Global 7500 to a G700 adds 50 nautical miles at the same rate. Past a certain point in this category, you’re paying for cabin volume, seating flexibility, and the newest airframe operators can offer, not for meaningfully more range.

What you’re actually paying for

Range without a fuel stop is the whole point. A G650 or Global 7500 clears New York to Dubai, Los Angeles to Tokyo, or London to Singapore nonstop, missions that would force a heavy jet into a refueling stop. Cabin standards match: full-height cabins, multiple living zones, real beds on the longest-range models, and catering that rivals a good restaurant.

What does a Gulfstream trip cost in total?

Multiply the hourly rate by the hours and you have the floor, not the quote. A five-hour domestic leg in a G650 is $75,000 at $15,000 an hour, and the 7.5% federal excise tax adds $5,625 for $80,625 before landing fees, catering, or positioning. Paramount’s own published example shows the gap between rate and quote on an international trip: New York to London in a Global 5000, a large-cabin jet it lists at $12,000 an hour, with 7 hours of flight time “costs approximately $100,000 one-way.” Seven hours at the bare hourly rate would be $84,000.

The full cost, honestly

Federal excise tax at 7.5% still applies on the domestic portion of any mixed international itinerary, and the FAA lists a separate international arrival and departure tax of $23.40 per passenger for 2026. International handling, permits, and customs fees are substantial and route-dependent; ask any operator to itemize them rather than accept a bare hourly quote. Overnight crew costs are close to guaranteed on missions this long: under 14 CFR 135.267, an unaugmented two-pilot crew is capped at 10 hours of flight time in any 24-hour period, and mixing an augmented leg with an unaugmented one in the same duty period pulls the whole period down to that same 10-hour ceiling. A New York-to-Hong Kong routing runs close to 15 hours in the air, well past what a single crew can legally fly without rest, which is why genuine long-haul missions in this category carry either an augmented crew (three or four pilots) or a crew layover built into the itinerary, and why either option adds real dollars beyond the hourly rate.

Where it sits on the ladder: a heavy jet clears a transatlantic leg for roughly half the hourly rate, and a super-midsize jet like the G280 covers coast-to-coast at $7,500 an hour. The Gulfstream G650 page goes deeper on the specific aircraft most of this category’s charter flying still happens on. If you fly long-haul often, compare the per-trip math here with fractional jet ownership before committing. Price a real routing with the charter cost estimator, or compare every category on the hourly rate by aircraft class page.