Bombardier Global 7500 charter from Dubai

What the Global 7500 is for

The Global 7500 is Bombardier's ultra-long-range large-cabin jet, type designation BD-700-2A12, in service since December 2018. At 111 ft long with a 104 ft wingspan it is fractionally longer than a Boeing 737-700, and the largest purpose-built business jet flying.

That size buys a cabin split into 4 separate living spaces rather than one tube with a divider: the Club Suite, Conference Suite, Entertainment Suite and Principal Suite. Among the cabins available for charter, this is the one that puts a permanent bed behind a door.

The mission is the 12-hour sector flown at Mach 0.85 by people who need to work and then sleep. Bombardier publishes 7,700 nm of range on that basis, with 8 passengers, 4 crew and NBAA IFR reserves, and more than 200 aircraft were in service by March 2025.

The 7500 is no longer Bombardier's marketed flagship. The Global 8000 shares its type certificate and has taken its place on the lineup, so charter supply rests on a fleet already flying.

Global 7500 charter cost from Dubai

Charter brokers quote roughly $16,000 to $19,000 per flight hour for the Global 7500 in 2026. No published index exists for charter rates on any aircraft type, so it is a band, not a price list. Aircraft age, cabin completion, the operator and how much empty repositioning a trip forces move a quote inside it.

The hourly figure is not the invoice. Positioning legs, landing and handling fees, crew expenses, catering, fuel surcharges and taxes sit outside it, and on a Dubai departure the positioning leg varies most, because few of these aircraft are based in the UAE. The Global 7500 sits at the top of the Dubai charter rate card, and the hours it saves on a long sector are the argument for paying it.

Range from Dubai

The 7,700 nm figure is a still-air number, measured at Mach 0.85 with 8 passengers, 4 crew and NBAA IFR reserves. Fill the cabin instead, with luggage and a stocked galley, and the achievable distance falls: payload with full fuel is 1,890 lb, and that is the constraint that bites first on a maximum-range leg.

Out of Dubai the range is generous in almost every direction. Europe, Africa, South and East Asia and Australia sit comfortably inside it, and the distances only argue back on the far side of the Pacific.

Los Angeles is the honest edge. At 7,246 nm it is 94.1% of book range, and the westbound routing runs against the prevailing mid-latitude westerlies, so it is achievable on a good day with a light cabin and not something to promise a full one. The aircraft has flown further, covering 8,152 nm from Singapore to Tucson in March 2019, but that was a record attempt, not a scheduled sector.

Inside the cabin

The cabin runs 54 ft 5 in from the cockpit divider aft, 8 ft 0 in wide and 6 ft 2 in high. The EASA type certificate caps it at 19 passengers, but a 4-zone interior with a stateroom and a full galley spends length that would otherwise be seats, which is why 13 to 16 is what charter aircraft carry.

Bombardier's 4 zones are a Club Suite of facing seats, a Conference Suite around a table, an Entertainment Suite built around a 3-place berthable divan, and the Principal Suite at the rear with a permanent bed, a wardrobe and its own lavatory. Each carries 6 large windows in one continuous high row.

Berthing is why people take this cabin over a smaller ultra-long-range jet. The stateroom holds a permanent bed and the Entertainment Suite divan berths flat; past that it depends on the airframe, because Bombardier publishes no total sleeping capacity. The stand-up shower in the aft en-suite lavatory is an option, so ask whether the tail number you are quoted has one.

A full-size galley sits forward, with dual convection and microwave ovens, chilled storage and a sink. Baggage is 195 cu ft, all inside the pressure vessel and reachable at any altitude, with no external hold. A dedicated crew suite sits apart from the 4 passenger zones, which is what makes an ultra-long sector with 4 crew workable.

How it compares

The closest comparison is the Global 8000, which is less a different aircraft than a different engine variant and modification set on the same type certificate. It carries 8,000 nm against 7,700 nm and a higher top speed, and a 7500 already flying can be converted to that specification by service bulletin.

Across the fence, the Gulfstream G650 is the aircraft a Global 7500 quote is usually set against. The 7500 answers it with cabin rather than speed: 4 separated living spaces, a stateroom with a permanent bed, and baggage that stays reachable in flight.

The comparison that decides most bookings is not another aircraft but whether the trip needs 7,700 nm at all. Dubai to London, Geneva or Mumbai sits well inside the reach of much smaller cabins, and the 7500 earns its band where the alternative is a fuel stop.

On paper its distinguishing numbers are a 51,000 ft maximum operating altitude and Mach 0.925 maximum operating Mach, with 5,760 ft of takeoff distance at maximum takeoff weight and 2,237 ft of landing distance. Bombardier clears it for runways 72 ft wide.

Who should charter it, and who should not

The type flies out of Al Maktoum with Dubai-based operators and management companies, usually on a foreign register, not an A6- one. The 9 UAE charter companies ranked here are where a quote starts.