Dallas to Aspen: the aircraft decides the airport
Dallas to Aspen is 712 miles, about an hour and fifty minutes from Love Field or Addison. Aspen is an hour behind Dallas, so a 9 am departure lands at Aspen-Pitkin County a little before 10 local time.
Aspen's own airport sits at 7,800 feet in a box canyon, ten minutes from town. It limits wingspan to 95 feet and weight to 100,000 lb, closes from 11 pm to 7 am, and most operators fly in by daylight only. A light jet, a super-midsize or a heavy jet such as the Legacy 650 lands there; a Gulfstream G650 does not, and goes to Eagle County, an hour and forty-five minutes' drive away.
Weather is the other variable. When snow or low cloud closes Aspen, the flight lands at Eagle County or Rifle and a car finishes the trip, so we plan the alternate with the flight.
Which Dallas airport to leave from is set out in our guide to the private jet airports in Dallas: FBOs, customs and curfews, side by side.