Cirrus Vision Jet Charter
St. Louis and Home the Same Day
The road version costs 5 h 10 m in each direction. The Vision Jet does it in 1 h 01 m, from a private terminal, on your departure time.
- From
- LOU · Louisville
- To
- SUS · Chesterfield
- Block time
- 1 h 01 m
- On the ground
- 7 h 13 m
- Nights away
- None
Your day
LOU → SUS → LOU
- LeaveLouisville
- At the aircraftBowman Field
- Wheels upLOU
- On the rampSpirit of St. Louis Airport
- On siteSt. Louis
- 7 h 13 m on the groundLeave siteSt. Louis
- Wheels upSUS
- On the rampBowman Field
- HomeLouisville
On the ground
7 h 13 m
Door to door
11 h 15 m
Nights away
None
Illustrative, built from the block time above and a half-hour on the ground at each end. Shift the whole thing earlier or later and it still closes — the working window is set by flight time, not by the clock.
St. Louis runs 1 hour behind Louisville; the clock times below are local at each end.
Certification and quality work has to be witnessed. There is no remote version of a first-article inspection or a source-inspection visit. The Louisville–St. Louis pair is a clean example: 236 nm apart, and awkward by every scheduled option.
Wheels up at 07 45 puts you on site in St. Louis by 08 16, with 7 h 13 m on the ground before the aircraft goes back. Home by 18 30. That is about as easy as a there-and-back day gets — no hotel, no overnight bag, and no second day of anyone's time.
The realistic alternative here is driving, and 5 h 10 m each way is the sort of number that gets quietly accepted until someone adds it up. Two of those in a day is most of a working day spent in a car, arriving for the meeting already tired. The scheduled-airline option on a pair this length is usually worse rather than better once you count the drive to the airport, the screening queue, and the connection a route this short often requires.
Bowman Field and Spirit of St. Louis Airport are both business-aviation fields with private terminals, so the ten-minutes-before-departure arrival holds at each end.
Halcyon quotes three aircraft and nothing else — a Vision Jet, a HondaJet and a PC-12 — which is why we know which operators run each well and which fields each one likes. All three are priced for this pair the moment you ask. Flights are operated by FAA Part 135 certificate holders.
Distance
236 nm
Block time
1 h 01 m
By road
5 h 10 m
Cruise
FL280
Why this route works
7 h 13 m on the ground, home by 18 30
Wheels up 07 45, on site 08 16, back on the ramp at LOU by 18 00. 2 h 03 m of flying in total, and nobody's second working day spent in transit.
5 h 10 m of driving, each way
That is the number the road version costs, before traffic has an opinion. Two of them in a day is most of a working day in a car — and an arrival that is already tired.
Source inspection and AOG
First-article and source-inspection work has to be witnessed, and AOG response is measured in hours. Both reward a departure you can call on the day.
Ten minutes from car to aircraft
Private terminals at both ends. No screening queue, no gate, no boarding group — you park, walk out, and go.
Parachute and autoland, standard
The Vision Jet carries CAPS, a whole-airframe parachute, and Safe Return, a one-button emergency autoland. No other jet in production offers either, at any price.
Staying over
Looking for an overnight trip? The instant price covers same-day returns. Anything with a night away is quoted by hand.
Ask about an overnight tripPhotograph F-15Cs_Missouri_ANG_over_St_Louis_Gateway_2008.jpg : Capt. Timothy Reinhart, USAF derivative work: ← fetch comms · Public domain · treated to the Halcyon photography standard
The Fields
Both ends of this leg
Private terminals at each end. No screening queue, no gate, and a walk from the car to the aircraft measured in yards.
Departure
Bowman Field
LOU · KLOU · Louisville, KY
UPS Worldport, the aging-care sector, and Ford's two assembly plants.
- Longest runway
- 5,398 ft
- Field elevation
- 546 ft
Arrival
Spirit of St. Louis Airport
SUS · KSUS · Chesterfield, MO
Boeing Defense, the plant-science corridor, and the west county corporate campuses.
- Longest runway
- 7,485 ft
- Field elevation
- 463 ft
Questions
Chartering LOU to SUS
How long is the flight from Louisville to St. Louis by private jet?
About 1 h 01 m of block time in a Cirrus Vision Jet, covering 236 nautical miles from Bowman Field (KLOU) to Spirit of St. Louis Airport (KSUS). That includes taxi, climb, and descent; actual time varies with winds and routing.
Can I fly LOU to SUS and back in the same day?
That is what the pair is for. Wheels up 07 45, on site in St. Louis by 08 16, 7 h 13 m on the ground, and home by 18 30 — 11 h 15 m door to door with no overnight.
How many colleagues can travel to St. Louis?
Four seats and 30 lb of baggage a head, on every aircraft in the fleet. We sell one uniform product rather than pricing by airframe, which is what lets us substitute whichever aircraft is available without changing your booking or your price.
Can the Vision Jet use Spirit of St. Louis Airport?
Yes, with margin. Spirit of St. Louis Airport has 7,485 feet of runway, well inside the Vision Jet's requirements in any normal condition.
What does a LOU to SUS charter cost?
The price is on this page. It is one all-in figure — aircraft, crew, landing fees, taxes and the ramp at both ends — quoted for four passengers and the hours on the ground shown above. Change the party size or the time you need at St. Louis and it re-prices as you move the controls. That is the figure that reaches accounts payable.
How much notice do you need for a St. Louis trip?
Most legs can be arranged inside 24 hours when an aircraft is available, which is the point of the product for urgent site visits and escalations. You get a straight yes or no immediately rather than a request left open.
Nearby
Other legs on this network
More ways out of Louisville, and more ways into St. Louis.