Private jet charter in Chamonix

A light jet leaves a London airfield and is on the ground at Geneva in about an hour and twenty minutes, and the rest of the journey to Chamonix is a road or a helicopter, because the valley under Mont Blanc has no airport that takes a business jet. Private Jets UK plans every Chamonix charter in two linked pieces for that reason. 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. What the valley does have is helicopter landing sites and, at Argentière, the base of a scenic helicopter operator, while the small airfield at Sallanches, which older guides still place about 25 km down the road, has closed. Geneva, 88 km away, takes most of the traffic; Annecy, Sion, Aosta, Chambéry and Lyon each win for a particular reason. The decisions that matter are the gateway, the last stretch up the valley, and the week of the year.

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 Chamonix 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+ 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 Chamonix?

About an hour and twenty minutes from Biggin Hill or London City to Geneva in a light jet, then twenty minutes by helicopter or an hour and a quarter by road, with one hour of clock difference to add on arrival, because France and Switzerland both keep Central European time. The British fields we use lie 404 to 728 nautical miles from Geneva, which makes the jet leg a short sector from the south of England and an easy midsize job from Scotland. The table gives the flight from each field to Geneva, the airport most Chamonix parties use.

Prices for the private jet flights to Chamonix

Typical jet legs from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Geneva. The road or helicopter leg up the valley is quoted with the jet and is not included. Christmas week, the February half-term and the Ultra-Trail week at the end of August price above these figures, and the calendar block further down explains when.

Geneva is the default and not the only door. From Biggin Hill the same light jet reaches each of the six gateways below within about £700 of the cheapest, so the choice is made by the last stretch, the hour of arrival, the side of the border and the paperwork for a pet or a permit, and hardly at all by the price of the flight.

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:

Private jet flights from Chamonix

Nothing takes off from Chamonix in a jet, so the way home is the arrival in reverse: down the valley by helicopter or car, and out from the airport that suits the day. Many Chamonix trips are one leg of something longer, and Geneva has the runway and the handlers for any onward sector. Typical one-way prices from Geneva:

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 Chamonix:

This is a small part of what is available. A winter booking for Chamonix usually finds an aircraft already based at Geneva, in the Alpine valleys or on the Riviera, and a quote may name Lyon or Nice as the positioning point. That is how a gateway destination works, and it is often where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Chamonix 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.

Business aviation airports for Chamonix

Chamonix has no airport for a business jet, so the question is which of six airfields in or beside the Alps suits the aircraft, the hour and the side of the mountain you want. The table runs from the obvious choice to the specialised ones, and the last row is the valley itself.

Four points settle most Chamonix arrivals:

Border, passport and the Mont Blanc tunnel

Three Schengen countries meet over Mont Blanc, and the first landing is where the passport is checked. At Geneva that means the Swiss business terminal, after which the road crosses into France. Geneva also has a French sector, a pier of the airline terminal that exists under an agreement between France and the canton of Geneva and is reached by road through the customs gate at Ferney-Voltaire. It serves airline passengers going between Geneva and France and does not help a London charter, because a traveller arriving on an international flight cannot leave straight for France without passing through Switzerland. At Annecy, Chambéry or Lyon the border service is at the airport itself, with notice given by the operator. At Aosta it is the Italian service, on three hours' notice. France has been checking travellers who arrive from Italy and Switzerland, mostly at road crossings, and renews the measure in periods of six months, so the passport stays with you on the road.

The tunnel deserves a paragraph of its own, because it is how the Italian side joins the French one. It is 11.6 km long, carries traffic in both directions in a single gallery, and holds vehicles to between 50 and 70 km/h with 150 m between them, which is why a queue builds quickly. In summer the French approach often queues with holidaymakers returning from Italy. The operators also close the tunnel in both directions for works on its vault: in some autumns for about 15 weeks, in others with no long closure. Whoever is planning Courmayeur or Aosta checks the published dates first, since the alternatives are a long way round over a Swiss pass. A first-time visitor to the Schengen area may be asked to register a photograph and fingerprints, a free step whose record stays valid for three years. For the way home, the General Aviation Report for Britain is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure, and passengers who are neither British nor Irish citizens may need an electronic travel authorisation for the UK.

Landing permits, slots and the crew

The permit depends on the airport. A British operator running a charter into Switzerland needs a Swiss permit: individual permits for up to three flights in three months are requested at least 72 hours before the first flight, and a chain of four or more flights needs an operating permit filed at least 30 days ahead. For France, the air services agreement between Britain and the European Union gives each side third and fourth freedom rights, so a plain London to Annecy, Chambéry or Lyon flight and back runs on the operator's usual authorisations. The question appears when the routing carries passengers between two French points or collects passengers in France for a third country. France then runs a non-objection procedure for operators without an EU licence, with a request filed through its SAGA system at least two working days ahead. Italy publishes its own authorisation rules for operators from outside the EU, with deadlines of 3 working days for a single air taxi flight and 6 for a charter passenger flight. The operator confirms with the Italian authority what a plain London to Aosta service needs, and we ask for the answer in writing. The operator files and we track.

From the apron to the Aiguille du Midi

Chamonix lies at about 1,035 m on average, at the foot of a mountain that rises a little over 4,800 m above the sea, and the town, home to some 8,700 people, hosted the first Winter Olympic Games. The skiing runs in three areas along the valley from Le Tour to Les Houches: Les Grands Montets, Brévent-Flégère and the Balme area. Everything the visitor came for is vertical and measured in cable-car minutes, while the distances that matter for a charter are the ones that run outward, to the airports and over the border.

The mountain side of the trip has its own timetable. The Aiguille du Midi cable car is the start of the Vallée Blanche, a 20 km off-piste route down the glacier that is skied with a guide, and in summer it connects across the border to Pointe Helbronner and the Skyway Monte Bianco, which runs down to Courmayeur. Those two links are summer lifts only. We pass the real arrival time to the hotel and to the guide, because in a valley where the day starts with a cable car the person who is waiting at the lift is part of the booking.

Flying to Chamonix with a dog or a cat

A dog in the mountains is an ordinary booking, and the flight is the easy part: the animal normally sits beside you in the cabin. The paperwork is where the trip is won or lost, because the airport you choose also chooses the rulebook. Land at Geneva and Switzerland checks the animal first and France after; land at Annecy, Chambéry or Lyon and only the French check applies; land at Aosta and the animal enters Italy, with the Mont Blanc tunnel as the next border.

France and Italy are both EU countries and apply the same EU rules to a pet arriving from Britain:

• An ISO microchip, fitted before the rabies vaccination or at the same time;
• A rabies vaccination given when the animal was at least 12 weeks old, with 21 days elapsed before the animal travels;
• An Animal Health Certificate for each trip, issued by an Official Veterinarian and valid for ten days for entry to the EU, and valid for the return as stated on the certificate. A British pet passport cannot be used to enter the EU;
• No more than five animals per traveller, presented at a travellers' point of entry, which we confirm in writing for the airport;
• For dogs, a tapeworm treatment from a vet between 24 and 120 hours before arrival back in Britain, recorded on the paperwork. Cats are exempt.

What Switzerland asks for when a pet lands at Geneva or Sion: a microchip fitted before the rabies vaccination, a vaccination given at 12 weeks or older and at least 21 days before travel, and either a valid Swiss or EU pet passport or an official veterinary certificate issued in the country of departure. There is a mandatory pet check at the red customs exit, and an animal with missing documents can be refused. The Swiss veterinary office names Basel, Geneva and Zurich as the entry points for animals flown in, so Geneva is the right Swiss airport for a pet, and Sion is a question we settle in writing.

Requirements for cats, ferrets, birds and anything less usual are collected on our flying with pets guide. For the entry point and the paperwork on the way home, we confirm both in writing before the flight, and a quarantine of up to four months awaits an animal that arrives in Britain without meeting the rules.

The Chamonix calendar: a ski winter, a trail-running August and a long autumn pause

Chamonix has two real seasons and one very loud week. The ski winter fills the valley from the end of November, the cable cars and the walkers arrive in May, and the last week of August belongs to the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc. Which week you want matters more than which jet you choose.

Ways to bring the Chamonix price down

• Avoid the Saturday. An arrival on a Sunday or a weekday spares the transfer traffic on the valley road, and both the aircraft and the helicopter are easier to find;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits at Geneva, Lyon or on the coast needs less positioning than one coming from Britain, and on a sector of this length positioning is a meaningful part of the bill;
• Check whether Annecy or Lyon works as well. On the same light jet from Biggin Hill, the sector to Annecy is priced about £200 higher than the one to Geneva, and Lyon-Saint Exupéry about £50 higher. The differences are small, so let the hour of arrival, the border and the road decide, and then price the last stretch.

Types of flights

Chamonix produces a mix of its own, because it is a mountaineering town and a ski town at once, and because three countries share the mountain it stands under.

• Ski weeks and long weekends in Chamonix, Argentière and Les Houches, flown on a Saturday or a Friday, with children, ski bags and a helicopter on the last stretch;
• Guided days on the high ground: the Vallée Blanche, the Aiguille du Midi and the glaciers, often as part of a long weekend;
• Courmayeur and the Aosta Valley side, reached through the Mont Blanc tunnel or flown to Aosta, for clients who want skiing on both sides of the massif;
• Verbier and the Swiss resorts, about an hour from Chamonix, for a week that splits between the two;
• Summer walking, climbing and running, from the Mont Blanc Marathon in June to the Ultra-Trail in late August, with parties of runners and their supporters;
• A lake stop at Annecy, about an hour away, for those who want the old town and the water before or after the mountains.

The long weekend is the trip to look at closely. Leave London on a Friday morning and you are in the valley by lunch with an afternoon on the mountain; return on Sunday evening and the aircraft and crew wait for you rather than going home. That waiting is paid for, but it usually comes out cheaper than two separate one-way charters, and we quote it both ways so the difference is visible. A summer day trip is possible too, with a cable car to 3,842 m before dinner, though a storm that closes the lift makes the day a poor candidate for a fixed schedule.

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Chamonix produces them in a few regular patterns, and it helps to know what they are.

Because the corridor from the Alps to Britain is thinner than the busiest London routes, a client who can name a few days rather than one has a far better chance than one who needs a particular Saturday. What you give up is the usual: the operator owns the date and the hour, and a leg can vanish when the original booking moves. Whatever is free is listed on our empty legs page, and we flag a Chamonix match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

For Chamonix the helicopter is a choice for most parties, because the road from Geneva is under two hours on an ordinary day, and it becomes the right answer on a peak Saturday, in a snowfall that slows the valley and for anyone who would rather not add a mountain road to a morning of flying. The aircraft puts the party down at an agreed site and the transfer takes about 20 minutes from Geneva. A scenic operator with a base at Argentière also flies loops of the massif, of 15, 20 and 30 minutes, and the 20-minute flight reaches the summit of Mont Blanc.

The machines on this ground are the Airbus H125 for four or five passengers, the wider H130 for groups, and the H135 and Bell 429 where a twin is wanted. We book them alongside the jet so that both crews work to one timetable.

Flight payment options

The main goal of our company is to provide the highest level of comfort to our customers. Therefore, we're always ready to meet you halfway. Our consultants will offer you a wide variety of flights to meet your needs and budget. Most customers prefer a non-cash method (a transfer to an EU bank account), which guarantees a high level of confidentiality and security of payment. All payment details are provided in advance, so you'll have enough time to make the necessary checks. For years of working in business aviation, our company has gained an impeccable reputation. We practice transparency and are always ready to present all necessary documents.

Private Jets UK works with both physical and legal entities. We guarantee the confidentiality and security of payments. You can pay for the flights from Chamonix in any convenient way:

• cashless (by transfer to our account);
• by cash;
• by card;
• by cryptocurrency.

Our company works with European and British banks, which allows you to choose the most convenient payment method. In addition, we conclude formal agreements and provide our clients with all necessary documents and invoices, which guarantees the safe payment and delivery of services. If you have any financial questions, feel free to contact our private aviation consultants.

If you need to book an urgent flight, please keep in mind that the bank transfer can take a few days. In such situations, we may need to involve our partner companies so that you can pay for your flight in cash. If you have any questions, you can contact your personal consultant 24/7.

Flights from the UK to Chamonix

Biggin Hill, London City, Farnborough and Luton send most of the traffic on this corridor, with Southampton, Bristol and Birmingham behind them and Scotland 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:

 

Airport	Country	ICAO	IATA
London Heathrow Airport	England	EGLL	LHR
Birmingham Airport	England	EGBB	BHX
London Gatwick	England	EGKK	LGW
London City Airport	England	EGLC	LCY
London Luton	England	EGGW	LTN
Edinburgh Airport	Scotland	EGPH	EDI
Leeds Airport	England	EGNM	LBA
Manchester Airport	England	EGCC	MAN
London Stansted	England	EGSS	STN
Liverpool John Lennon Airport	England	EGGP	LPL
Newcastle Airport	England	EGNT	NCL
Bristol Airport	England	EGGD	BRS
Glasgow Airport	Scotland	EGPF	GLA
East Midlands Airport	England	EGNX	EMA
Southampton Airport	England	EGHI	SOU
Jersey Airport	Channel Islands	EGJJ	JER
Cardiff International Airport	Wales	EGFF	CWL
Inverness Airport	Scotland	EGPE	INV
Bournemouth Airport	England	EGHH	BOH
London Farnborough Airport	England	EGLF	FAB
Oxford Airport	England	EGTK	OXF
London Biggin Hill	England	EGKB	BQH
Belfast Airport	Northern Ireland	EGAA	BFS
Gibraltar Airport	Gibraltar	LXGB	GIB
Aberdeen Airport	Scotland	EGPD	ABZ

Chamonix charters from the booking notes: six typical trips

What the corridor looks like once a quote turns into a flight. Six typical jobs of the kind that come through our booking notes, described in general terms and not as dated or named bookings.

Frequently asked questions about flying to Chamonix