Door-to-door travel time
Enter your origin and destination to see real drive times and total travel time — private vs. commercial.
These aren't back-of-the-napkin estimates. We built this tool to give you a realistic, data-driven picture of what each travel option actually looks like door-to-door.
We start from your actual address. Enter a street address, city, or zip code and we pinpoint your location, then independently select the best airport for each travel mode. Commercial flights route through major airline hubs. Private flights use FBO airports — often smaller, closer airports with dedicated general aviation terminals. We validate private airport selections against real charter flight activity from our database of thousands of private jet flights to make sure we're only suggesting airports that actually handle private aviation traffic.
Commercial flight times come from real data. We use the Bureau of Transportation Statistics T-100 Domestic Segment dataset — actual ramp-to-ramp times reported by airlines across hundreds of thousands of flights per year. This includes taxi time, which can add 15–25 minutes at congested hub airports. When BTS data isn't available for a route, we estimate based on distance with appropriate buffers.
Private flight times reflect how charter actually works. We calculate flight times using real cruise speeds and performance data for each aircraft category, plus realistic climb, descent, and taxi buffers. Private jets typically use the same airspace at similar speeds to airlines — the time savings come from shorter drives to closer airports, walking straight to your plane at the FBO, and skipping security, baggage claim, and boarding queues.
The ground experience is where the real difference is. Commercial travel includes parking and walking to the terminal, security screening (scaled by airport size — a major hub like ATL or JFK takes longer than a regional airport), gate and boarding time, deplaning, and baggage claim. Private travel replaces all of that with a 15-minute FBO check-in and a walk to your car on the ramp. We factor in each of these segments individually.
Drive times are calculated from the distance between your address and each airport, adjusted for typical road routing. Actual drive times will vary with traffic conditions, but the relative comparison between airports holds — and that's the point. If your nearest FBO is 12 miles away but the commercial hub is 35 miles away, that difference is real every time you fly.