Private jet charter to Belgium

From the London airfields Belgium is a flight of under an hour, and most of that hour is spent climbing and descending. Private Jets UK treats the country as a set of six usable airports rather than one, because the choice between Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend, Charleroi, Liège and Kortrijk decides how close you land to the meeting, the racetrack or the beach, and whether the aircraft will need a slot. Our customers have access to 6,500 jets of all types and configurations available for rent. We will help you choose the best option based on your needs and objectives. Our catalog contains the models from the largest manufacturers: Gulfstream, Dassault, Embraer, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Learjet, Cessna, Beechcraft, Pilatus, HondaJet, etc. We have established partnerships with the world's largest airlines and VIP terminals, which means we can offer you favourable flight conditions and a high level of service. Our experts will manage the organization of your flight - starting with paperwork, agreements, etc., and ending with a transfer and meeting at the airport. Our company provides a full range of business aviation and concierge services. In Belgium that also means the road after landing, because the country is small and densely built: the EU quarter, the diamond district, the medieval centre of Bruges and the Spa circuit lie within a few hours of each other, and the right airport saves most of the drive.

 

 

At your request, the aviation consultants of Private Jets UK will help you choose the jet with the suitable technical parameters (production year, flight hours, and home base). The cost of the private jet charter in Belgium depends on many factors, such as the model of the business jet, the number of passengers, departure and destination airports, type of flight, duration of parking, additional services, etc. Therefore, we calculate the price of each order individually taking into account your wishes. You can use an online calculator to get an instant charter quote. Please indicate your real contact details to get the final calculation.

You can calculate the cost of your flight in several ways:

• using an online calculator on the website (however, it shows only the approximate price);
• via Messenger (WhatsApp or Telegram);
• by landline or cell phone;
• via e-mail (jets@private-jets.co.uk).

 

 

Please note that the above-mentioned price is indicative only. It is calculated on this basis: a departure from Biggin Hill, a Cessna Citation CJ3+ nonstop to Brussels and two passengers aboard. If you want to get a personal quote, just fill out the online booking form below. Our aviation consultant will make the calculation within 20 minutes, and then contact you to specify the details of the flight.

 

How long does it take to fly to Belgium?

Belgium keeps Central European time and stays one hour ahead of Britain all year, because both countries move their clocks on the same weekends. The sectors below are from British airfields to Brussels, gate to gate, with the taxi and the approach included:

The exact flight time depends on the model of the business jet, as well as the speed of the tail or head wind. Our consultant will make a detailed calculation of the flight time for the chosen business jet.

 

 

Prices for the private jet flights to Belgium

Typical private jet prices from Britain to Brussels, cheapest first. Every row is a nonstop flight to Brussels Airport. Because the distances are short, the price follows the aircraft class far more than the departure airfield, and the table shows it plainly:

 

 

Private jet flights within Belgium and to its neighbours

Nobody charters a jet to cross Belgium, and the ones who ask are usually positioning an aircraft or saving a long road day. The sectors we are actually asked for are the short hop to the coast, the connections to the cities around the border and the longer flights that use Brussels as a base for the Alps, the Riviera or the Gulf:

 

 

We can arrange the flights from any cities in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and European countries. Due to a large database of available business jets, we can help you find an optimal jet and crew. If you have any questions about the departure or the flight itself, you can ask them using the form below:

 

 

Prices depending on the type of business jet

We can clearly show the high dependence of the cost of the flight, on the type of aircraft - we have collected approximate data, at the price of 1 flight hour, for various types of business jets:

 

 

The cost per hour indicated in the table is preliminary and does not constitute an offer or a commercial offer. Exact prices are available from the managers of the company.

 

Online Calculator

If you want to make an urgent calculation of the cost of a private plane flight, use our online calculator. Just fill in all the fields of the form with a note that you are interested in a specific model of the aircraft and get the final price. NB! - the figures are sent to you by email or messenger, please carefully fill in the contact details to get the calculation.

All our calculations are as transparent as possible for you. After receiving the request, we will prepare a beautiful offer - where the costs and the final price will be clearly described. The exact price is agreed in advance and is written in the contract, so you can be sure of the final cost.

 

 

Private jets are ready to take off

Our database contains over 6,500 business jets (about 3,500 in Europe and 3,000 in the rest of the world) of different configurations and production years. The list of models is constantly updated. Unfortunately, we can't post a full list of available jets on our website due to confidentiality issues. Please contact the managers of the company for more accurate information. We will help you choose a suitable model taking into account your wishes. These are the typical choices for Belgium:

 

 

For a Belgian booking the nearest suitable aircraft is often not in Britain. Brussels, Antwerp and Kortrijk have their own business-aviation operators, and a positioning leg from any of them can change the price more than the choice of model. We look at the whole map before a number is sent.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Belgium in 6 easy steps:

1. Flight request - indicating the route and your preferences for the model of business jet and other points.
2. Coordination of flight details - our consultant will contact you to offer the possible flight options and answer all your questions.
3. Commercial offer - we will send you a final offer on a specific model taking into account all your wishes.
4. Signing of the contract.
5. Payment for the flight and booking a business jet.
6. Departure at the agreed time and date. Assistance during the whole flight.

In addition to renting the private jets and arranging the flights, we provide concierge services, premium transfer, security, exclusive catering, etc. We have learned to solve problems of any complexity, offering the service of the European level. Our experts will be happy to answer your questions and help you arrange your flight.

 

How to rent a business jet with a crew

5 main stages:

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  Sending an application

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  Clarification of details and search for options

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  Preparation and coordination of optimal options

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  Registration of documents. Payment of the invoice.

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  Departure on the route.

 

Business aviation airports in Belgium

Belgium has six airports that take a business jet from Britain and handle the border on arrival. Brussels carries the weight, Antwerp and Ostend serve the cities and the coast, and Charleroi and Liège are the answer when Brussels cannot give a slot. All times in this section are local, converted from the UTC times in the aeronautical information publication, which lists the summer hour in brackets:

 

The small grass and light-aircraft fields at Spa-La Sauvenière, Saint-Hubert and Namur-Suarlée are listed as private airfields and are not places we plan a jet. Four rules settle most Belgian arrivals before a quote goes out:

 

Arriving from Britain: passports, customs and what to carry

Belgium belongs to the European Union and to Schengen, and Britain belongs to neither. A private flight from London therefore arrives as a flight from outside both, and the border is dealt with at the first Belgian airport you land at. All six airports listed above have customs and immigration, although the hours differ.

 

 

Which airport for which part of Belgium

Belgium is small enough that two airports can serve the same city, and the question is which one saves the most road. The map below is built on straight-line distances, so allow more for motorways and for traffic around Brussels and Antwerp:

 

Brussels, Antwerp, the coast and the Ardennes: what our clients go for

Brussels is where most of the business is. The region has about 1.25 million residents and some 2.5 million in the wider urban area, and it is the de facto capital of the European Union: the Commission and the Council sit there, together with the Brussels hemicycle of the Parliament, and NATO has its headquarters at Haren in the north of the city. Delegations arrive for a day of meetings, lawyers and lobbyists fly in for a hearing, and companies hold board meetings that fit between two summits. The region is officially bilingual in French and Dutch, which matters when a handler or a driver is booked.

Antwerp is the second kind of trip. The diamond district beside the Central Station has four exchanges. The port is the second largest in Europe. The fashion scene is tied to the Royal Academy, and its show and graduate exhibitions in June mark a date in the calendar. Deurne is 10 to 15 minutes from the old town by car, which is why a light jet is the natural choice.

The coast is the third. Bruges is a UNESCO World Heritage centre with a bell tower, canals and the Groeninge museum, and it can be walked end to end in about an hour and a half. Knokke-Heist, with the Royal Zoute Golf Club and more than forty galleries, is the richest seaside resort in the country, and in October the Zoute Grand Prix fills it with cars for five days. Zeebrugge is a cruise port about 17 km from Bruges.

Motor racing and forests make up the fourth. Spa-Francorchamps lies in the Ardennes, about half an hour from Liège, and hosts the Belgian Grand Prix and the 24 Hours of Spa. The Ardennes themselves are wooded hills of 350 to 400 metres, rising to the 694-metre Signal de Botrange in the province of Liège, the highest point of the country, and they are where Belgians go for walking, cycling, canoeing and shooting weekends. A party with a country house in the Ardennes is usually better placed landing at Liège than at Brussels.

 

The Belgian year: spring Classics, a festival summer and the Christmas markets

Belgium has no ski season and no single peak. It has a string of weekends, each of which fills the airport nearest to it, and a quiet winter between them:

 

The Belgian calendar: Classics, festivals and Christmas markets

Dated events are numerous, and each one pulls the private flights toward a different airport:

 

 

Flying to Belgium with a dog or a cat

A dog or cat travels in the cabin, and the paperwork has two halves: the standard European set for the way out and one appointment for the way home. Belgium applies the rules of the European Union, and Britain is a listed country, so no blood test is needed for an animal from Great Britain.

• A microchip, fitted before the rabies vaccination, not after;
• A rabies vaccination given at 12 weeks or later, at least 21 days old on the day of arrival and kept in date;
• An official veterinary health certificate for each trip, issued no more than ten days before departure;
• For a dog on the homeward leg, the tapeworm treatment 24 to 120 hours before landing in Great Britain;
• Not more than five animals per traveller.

Cats need the same list without the worming. Not every airport is set up to receive an animal at the customs desk, so we confirm in writing with the handler that the chosen airport takes the animal, and if it does not, the flight goes to Brussels.

Requirements for birds, rabbits and the less usual species, along with the countries where the timeline runs to months, are set out on our flying with pets guide.

 

 

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Belgium is a short hop from Britain, so repositioning flights run in both directions all year, though the discounts are modest because the sectors are short.

A client who can offer a few days has a far better chance of a match, though the operator owns the date and a leg can disappear when the original booking changes. Whatever is free is listed on our empty legs page. A selection of Belgian empty legs follows:

 

 

 

Helicopter charter

In Belgium a helicopter saves the stretch between the airport and the destination, not the crossing from Britain. These are our estimates from Brussels Airport, calculated at about 115 knots with a few minutes for the start and the landing:

These are estimates and move with the weather and the load. The types listed for the coast include the Airbus H125 and H130 and the Bell 429. We confirm the aircraft, the route, the number of passengers and the baggage allowance for your date before the offer goes out.

 

 

Flights from the UK to Belgium

Biggin Hill, London City, Luton and Farnborough send most of the traffic on this corridor, with Southampton, Birmingham and Manchester behind them and Scotland and Northern Ireland at the long end; the price table higher up covers thirteen of those pairings. Our clients have access to all airports of the UK and Europe. Due to the unique partnership conditions, we can offer our clients the best prices for business aviation services. Our experts will consult you on the availability of private jets in a particular city and help you choose the best option.

 

List of TOP 25 business aviation airports:

 

Belgian charters from the booking notes: six typical trips

Six typical jobs put together from booking notes with the particulars changed, so none describes one named client or date.

 

Frequently asked questions about flying to Belgium