Aircraft
Seven categories cover effectively everything that departs the Adriatic coast, from a thirty-minute island sector to a non-stop run to the Gulf. Which one suits a given trip depends on the runway at both ends, the number of passengers, the luggage and the date.
The figures below are typical for each category. Individual aircraft vary, and the options you receive state the actual aircraft rather than a category average.
The smallest category worth putting on a short Adriatic sector, and on some of the island fields the only one that fits. Modest speed and modest range, but it turns a long drive plus a ferry into a flight measured in minutes. This is the type we would look at first for Brač or a short hop across to Montenegro.
Types in this category: Piper Seneca V, Beechcraft Baron
Turboprops give up jet cruise speed in exchange for shorter field performance and better economics on sectors under a couple of hours. On the Adriatic that combination covers most of what a jet would be wasted on — Zagreb, Venice, Vienna, and any island field where runway length is the deciding factor.
Types in this category: King Air 350, Pilatus PC-12
A jet cabin and jet speed for small numbers. Suits two to four passengers on a European sector where the point is the departure time rather than the cabin. Below its range limit it is often the most sensible aircraft on the ramp; above it, the next category up starts making the case.
Types in this category: Citation M2, Phenom 100
The workhorse of European charter. From Dubrovnik it reaches most of central and western Europe in a single sector, with a cabin that holds up for the duration. When a request comes in without a preference, this is frequently the category the options come back in.
Types in this category: Citation CJ2/CJ3, Phenom 300
Where the cabin starts to matter as much as the range. The sensible starting point for the longer north-western sectors — London, Paris, Amsterdam — and for groups that would be tight in a light jet.
Types in this category: Citation XLS+, Learjet 60
Longer legs and a higher cruise. This is the category that opens the eastern Mediterranean and the edge of the Gulf without a stop, with cabin space sized for a full group and their luggage rather than one or the other.
Types in this category: Challenger 350, Citation Longitude
Long-range aircraft for the sectors nothing else covers in one leg. Dubrovnik has the longest runway in Croatia and takes heavy types without a payload penalty, which is what makes a direct Gulf departure from the Adriatic coast realistic rather than theoretical.
Types in this category: Falcon 900, Gulfstream G550, Global 6000
Leave the preference field alone. Send the route, the date and the number of passengers, and the options come back with the aircraft that actually suit the sector — including anything you had not considered.
Prefer a specific type because you have flown it before? Say so in the request and it is treated as the starting point.