Embraer Lineage 1000 Charter Miami
An Embraer Lineage 1000 charter in Miami is the smallest sensible way to fly an airliner privately. Embraer took the E190 regional jet airframe, added fuel tanks in the hold and fitted 19 seats where an airline would fit close to a hundred: 19 across five zones including a private bedroom and walk-in baggage hold. The result is 84.4 ft of cabin for nineteen people, which is more floor per passenger than any purpose-built business jet gives you at any price.
Typical market range is $18,000–$26,000 per flight hour — meaningfully under a 737-based airliner, and the thing you give up is range rather than space. Actual quotes vary with date, aircraft and availability. Below: the specification, what the five zones are actually used for, how the aircraft behaves at South Florida airports, and the point at which the BBJ or a long-range jet becomes the better buy.
Where the Embraer Lineage 1000 charter Miami market sits
Embraer's approach differed from Boeing's. Instead of converting a mainline single-aisle, they started with an aircraft already designed to carry around a hundred people on short sectors and rebuilt it as a private airplane with additional tankage. Range works out at 4,600 nm. From Miami that covers every domestic city pair with fuel in hand, the whole Caribbean, and South America as far as the southern cone with a technical stop rather than a non-stop.
The cabin is 108 in wide and 78 in tall — narrower than a 737, taller and wider than every large-cabin business jet, and flat-floored from the forward galley to the aft washroom. Nobody steps down into a dropped aisle and rolling bags travel the length of the cabin without being lifted, which sounds trivial until nineteen people board in ninety-degree heat with carry-ons.
Cruise is 470 kts at Mach 0.80 with a ceiling of 41,000 ft. These are airliner numbers rather than Gulfstream numbers. On a Miami to Los Angeles leg you will land perhaps twenty minutes behind a fast long-range jet; on Miami to Teterboro the difference disappears into taxi time. Nobody charters this airplane for speed.
The variant offered for charter first delivered in 2013, and the worldwide fleet runs to a few dozen individually completed airframes, unevenly distributed. Availability rather than price is usually what decides whether a Lineage trip happens on your dates, which is why enquiries for peak Miami weeks want to go in early.
Lineage 1000E specifications
Figures below reflect a typical charter airframe. Because every Lineage interior was specified individually, the split between seating, bedroom and lounge differs from tail to tail even though the tube is identical, and cabin length here counts the full private cabin rather than the seated section.
| Specification | Figure |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Embraer |
| Model | Embraer Lineage 1000E |
| Typical charter passengers | 19 |
| Seating notes | 19 across five zones including a private bedroom and walk-in baggage hold |
| Range (typical IFR reserves) | 4,600 nm |
| Cruise speed | 470 kts (Mach 0.80) |
| Certified ceiling | 41,000 ft |
| Cabin height | 78 in |
| Cabin width | 108 in |
| Cabin length | 84.4 ft |
| Baggage volume | 780 cu ft |
| Lavatory | Enclosed, externally serviced |
| Stand-up cabin | Yes |
| Connectivity | Ka-band high-speed |
| First delivery of this variant | 2013 |
| Typical market hourly range | $18,000–$26,000 per flight hour |
Five zones, a real bed and a hold you can walk into
The aircraft's signature is that its 84.4 ft of cabin is divided rather than open. A common charter layout runs a forward club of four facing seats, a six-seat dining and conference zone, a mid-cabin lounge with divans, an aft private bedroom with a full-size bed, and a rear washroom — with a shower on some airframes. Bulkheads and doors separate them, so a working group in zone two does not wake someone asleep in zone four. That is the practical difference between this aircraft and an open-plan heavy jet, and it is why delegations pick it.
The walk-in baggage hold is what passengers remember. Part of the 780 cu ft is reachable in flight, so garment bags hang instead of compressing and someone can retrieve a laptop or a change of clothes without waiting for the ramp. For a group flying overnight into a morning meeting, that beats another ten knots of cruise.
Connectivity is ka-band high-speed and the lavatory is enclosed, externally serviced. Cabin crew is typically one or two attendants working a proper galley, which means nineteen people eat in one sitting rather than in waves. Headroom of 78 in makes it a genuine stand-up cabin for the whole length.
- Flat floor end to end — no step-down aisle and no overhead bins to duck under.
- Doors between zones, so a meeting, a meal and sleep can happen at the same time.
- A fixed bed rather than a converted divan; the bedroom stays a bedroom for the whole flight.
- Part of the hold is accessible in flight, which no business jet on this site offers.
Hourly range and how a Lineage trip is priced
Typical market range is $18,000–$26,000 per flight hour. The band is tighter than the BBJ's because the fleet is more uniform — similar seat counts, similar completions, similar operating economics. Quotes are built on block hours rather than air time, so twenty minutes of taxi behind an afternoon airline push at Miami International bills exactly like twenty minutes at 41,000 ft.
Most operators apply a daily minimum of two or three block hours, and that matters more than the hourly figure on a multi-city itinerary. Four fifty-minute legs in a day can bill closer to eight hours than to three and a half. Ask for the minimum before you design the schedule, not after. Our cost guide sets out minimums, positioning and taxes in detail, and a quote request comes back with the all-in figure for your actual routing.
Occasionally a Lineage repositioning between contracts surfaces as an empty leg, and the pricing on those bears no relation to the standard band. They are a poor plan and an excellent opportunity: worth registering interest for through our empty leg flights desk if your dates can move, and worth ignoring entirely if they cannot.
| Trip | Approximate block hours | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Miami to Teterboro, same-day return | 3.5–4.0 | The daily minimum usually governs the bill |
| Miami to Los Angeles, one way | 5.0–5.5 | Comfortably non-stop with nineteen aboard |
| Miami to Bogota or Panama City, one way | 3.0–3.5 | Well inside range; customs on both ends |
| Four-city domestic roadshow over three days | 9.0–12.0 | Ground time and minimums dominate |
Miami missions that suit nineteen seats
Latin American board and delegation travel
The most common Lineage pattern out of Miami is a board, an investment committee or a government delegation of fifteen to nineteen heading south. The zones earn their money on those flights: principals brief in the conference area, staff work in the forward club, and whoever came off a red-eye sleeps behind a door. It is the aircraft that turns a four-hour leg into preparation time instead of dead time, which is the argument our corporate jet charter desk makes most often.
Squad-size sports and entertainment movements
Not every team movement is seventy people. A tennis or golf contingent, a front office plus coaching staff, a touring act with a small crew — these land at fifteen to nineteen, which is exactly the Lineage's number. Because part of the hold is walk-in, kit bags, instrument cases and medical bags stay reachable rather than buried under the rest of the load. Above nineteen the answer changes and you are shopping for a Boeing Business Jet instead.
Incentive groups and island destinations
At nineteen passengers the flight stops being transport and starts being the first evening of the event, which is why incentive organisers like this airplane. It serves a proper dinner in the air and reaches Caribbean and Central American resorts non-stop from South Florida. Runway performance is the thing to confirm early: the airframe is derived from a regional jet and copes with shorter fields better than a 737 does, but several island airports still rule it out, and that is a question for the operator's analysis rather than an assumption.
Lineage 1000E against the BBJ and the Global 6000
Against the BBJ, the Lineage trades capacity and range for cost and airport flexibility. The 737 carries more people further with a bigger hold; the Lineage costs several thousand dollars less per hour, fits more runways, and at nineteen passengers gives each person roughly the same floor area anyway. If your group is genuinely fixed at fifteen to nineteen, the Lineage is normally the better economic answer.
Against the Bombardier Global 6000 the comparison inverts. The Global flies 6,000 nm to the Lineage's 4,600 nm, cruises faster at 488 kts, sits at a lower cabin altitude and reaches airports an airliner cannot. What it will not give you is a walk-in hold, five separate zones or nineteen seats. Take the Global for thirteen people going a very long way, and the Lineage for nineteen people who want to spread out.
| Embraer Lineage 1000E | Boeing Business Jet (BBJ 737) | Bombardier Global 6000 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical charter passengers | 19 | 25 | 13 |
| Range | 4,600 nm | 6,000 nm | 6,000 nm |
| Cabin length | 84.4 ft | 79.2 ft | 43.3 ft |
| Cabin height | 78 in | 84 in | 74 in |
| Typical market hourly range | $18,000–$26,000 | $22,000–$45,000 | $14,500–$18,500 |
| Choose it for | Nineteen seats and zoned privacy | Capacity and freight | Range and speed |
When the Lineage is the wrong airplane
If your group is nine people, this is an expensive way to fly them. A super-midsize or heavy jet does the same trip for roughly half the hourly figure with better airport access and a shorter ferry. If the leg is Miami to Dubai non-stop, 4,600 nm does not reach it and you need a long-range jet or a planned fuel stop. And if you need to be airborne in four hours from the phone call, a fleet of a few dozen airframes spread over three continents rarely has one nearby.
The aircraft also needs airliner-standard ground support. Not every FBO has stairs of the right height, a tug rated for the weight, or ramp space to turn it. In Miami and Fort Lauderdale that is not a constraint; at some island and resort destinations it is, and it belongs in the conversation at quote stage rather than on arrival. We check the handling capability at both ends before a price goes out.
Frequently asked questions
How many passengers does the Lineage 1000E carry?
Nineteen in the standard charter configuration, laid out as 19 across five zones including a private bedroom and walk-in baggage hold. A few airframes were completed with fewer seats and more lounge, so the practical number on a given tail can be lower. It does not scale upward: if your group is twenty-five or forty, the BBJ or another airliner is the right search rather than this one.
What does a Lineage 1000 charter cost per hour from Miami?
The typical market range is $18,000–$26,000 per flight hour, billed on block time rather than air time. Most operators apply a two- or three-hour daily minimum, which dominates the bill on short multi-leg days. Positioning, catering, crew accommodation and international fees are quoted separately. Actual quotes vary with date, aircraft and availability.
Can it fly Miami to Europe non-stop?
To western Europe, usually yes — Lisbon, Madrid and London are within 4,600 nm of South Florida with reserves. Westbound returns against strong winter winds are the harder direction and occasionally want a technical stop with a full cabin and full baggage. We run the payload-range for your actual dates and load rather than working from the published figure.
Does the Lineage have a real bed?
Yes. A fixed, full-size bed sits in a bulkheaded aft suite rather than a divan that converts. On most charter airframes the suite has its own door and adjoins the rear washroom, and some tails include a shower. That single feature is the main reason a nineteen-person group chooses this aircraft over a heavy jet for an overnight southbound or transatlantic leg.
Which South Florida airport should a Lineage depart from?
Miami International and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood are straightforward for the type and simplest for international departures where customs matters. Opa-locka Executive is worth asking about for domestic legs, subject to the operator's weight and runway analysis on the day. The deciding factor is usually where your passengers are staying the night before rather than anything about the airplane.
Are Lineage empty legs worth waiting for?
Only if your dates are genuinely flexible. Empty legs appear when the aircraft has to reposition between contracts, which is unpredictable and rarely more than a few days ahead. Pricing can be dramatically below the standard band, but the routing and timing are fixed by someone else's trip. Register interest and keep a booked option alongside it if the date matters.
Related pages
- VIP airliner charter MiamiThe class overview: capacity, cost bands and when an airliner beats a heavy jet.
- Boeing Business Jet (BBJ 737)More capacity, more range and a much wider hourly band.
- Bombardier Global 6000The long-range alternative when thirteen seats are enough.
- Hourly charter ratesTypical market ranges across every aircraft class we source from South Florida.
Further reading from the blog
Sources and further reading
- Embraer Lineage 1000E — Embraer's official Lineage 1000E page, covering cabin zones, range and interior specification.
- FAA regulations and policies — Primary source for the federal regulations governing commercial charter operations in the United States.
- NBAA — Business aviation association resources on operating standards and group travel practice.
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