Private jet charter in Colmar

A jet from London crosses the Channel and reaches the Alsace plain in about an hour and a quarter, and the decision that shapes the trip is where it lands, because Colmar has a small airfield of its own and two larger airports, Basel-Mulhouse and Strasbourg, each within about an hour of the town by road. Private Jets UK builds the charter around that choice. 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. Colmar-Houssen has a 1,610 m runway for light jets, EuroAirport has the handlers and customs offices that most business jets need, and Strasbourg is the second large option with a customs office of its own. What remains is the calendar, since the Christmas markets and the wine fair in the summer fill the hotels of the old town long before they fill the aircraft.

 

 

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 Colmar 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 to EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse, an Embraer Phenom 300E 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 Colmar?

About an hour and ten minutes from Biggin Hill in a Phenom 300E, just under two hours from Edinburgh, and a clock that is one hour ahead of Britain on arrival, because France keeps Central European time. Colmar has no airline airport, so we price the sector to EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse, the airport with the full set of business handlers, and add a car for the last hour. From the British fields we use it is 383 to 691 nautical miles, a short hop for a light jet from the south of England and a super-midsize from Scotland. The table gives the sector from each field.

 

 

 

Prices for the private jet flights to Colmar

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them priced to a business aviation handler at EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse, with the car to Colmar quoted alongside. The Christmas market weeks and the wine fair at the start of August can price above these figures, and the calendar block further down explains when.

The same Biggin Hill departure in a Phenom 300E, priced to each of the three airports we use for Colmar, one way:

The three figures sit within a few hundred pounds of each other, so the choice is made on the road time, the facilities and the hours of the day, and not on the flight price. Which one fits which trip is set out in the airports section below.

 

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 Colmar

Colmar sits between Switzerland, Germany and Paris, so a flight out of it goes in all directions at short range. Zurich and Geneva are an hour or less by turboprop, Paris and Munich fit in a light-jet hour, and the Riviera and the Gulf are the longer sectors. The first group below leaves from Colmar-Houssen in aircraft light enough for its runway, the second from EuroAirport. Typical one-way prices:

 

 

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 Colmar:

 

 

 

This is a small part of what is available. Basel, Zurich and Strasbourg all have a steady flow of light and midsize jets, so there is often an aircraft within half an hour of the airport, and outside the Christmas and August weeks that is frequently where the better price comes from.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Colmar 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 for Colmar

Three airports carry the Colmar trips, and a fourth is a small field across the Rhine. Which one is right depends on the size of the aircraft, the hour of the day and whether the party is stopping in Colmar or heading up the wine road.

 

Four things to settle before a Colmar landing:

 

 

Hours, customs and the airfield on the edge of town

A small airfield with a tower and a handful of staff works differently from an international airport, and Colmar-Houssen shows it. Its published staffed hours are short, and the rest of the day it is available on request. The French aeronautical publication gives its hours in UTC: in winter that is 07:00 to 11:00 and 13:00 to 16:00, and in summer the same local hours fall one hour earlier in UTC, so on the clock in Colmar the airfield is staffed from 08:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00 on weekdays all year. The airport lists fuel from 08:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 16:30. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays the staffed periods are 10:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 17:00 from November to February, and until 18:00 from March to October. Landing outside those hours needs an opening request to the operator, and an hour of extra opening carries a fee, so a late arrival is priced in the quote.

Customs follows the same logic. EuroAirport and Strasbourg are staffed border posts. Colmar-Houssen is listed with customs on 24 hours' notice, and it is not a full-time border post, so a flight from Britain is cleared by prior arrangement and only when the arrival fits the staffed hours. When the party wants no surprises on the ground, we land at EuroAirport or Strasbourg and drive. Strasbourg publishes customs and immigration from 06:00 to 23:00 local time and asks for 24 hours' notice outside them, and its night rules bar take-offs between 23:30 and 06:00 and landings between 00:00 and 06:00, local time, for most aircraft, so a very late departure is moved to another airport.

 

Border, customs and the two halves of EuroAirport

EuroAirport is the only binational airport in the world, and it shows when you ask who checks you. The ground is French, but in the Swiss sector Swiss law applies to customs, medical services and police work, and Swiss border guards handle passport control, while in the French sector the French airport police do. The handler we use most, Air Service Basel, sits in the Swiss sector, which is why a private jet to Colmar is typically cleared by Swiss officers, in a private lounge, in ten to twenty minutes. Switzerland is in Schengen, so there is no further passport check on the drive into France. It is outside the EU customs union, which is why goods are another matter: the exit the car takes decides whether Swiss or French customs looks at the bags. Declare what could be taxed, tell the handler if the party carries artworks, watches or samples, and ask about the wine for the way home, since UK customs allowances apply to what you bring back.

For the return, the General Aviation Report for Britain is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure. We prepare it with the flight plan, and we confirm in writing which handler and which authority covers the sector you will use. A British charter operator can also need a permit from the French or Swiss aviation authority for the route, and we track that with the aircraft paperwork before the quote goes out.

 

 

From the apron to the Lauch

Colmar is a town of about 67,000 people on the Lauch river, just east of the Vosges, and the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department. It lies in one of the driest parts of France, with an annual rainfall of about 600 mm, which is why the vineyards on the slopes behind it do so well. The old town is small enough to cross on foot in half an hour, and what a private client does with the rest of the day depends on the road. The distances below are by road from the town unless they say otherwise.

 

A day in Colmar, and the roads out of it

The old town is what people come for, and it works best on foot. La Petite Venise is the canal district along the Lauch, with half-timbered houses and flower-decked balconies above the water, best seen early in the morning or late in the evening. The Maison des Têtes, built in the early seventeenth century in the German Renaissance style, is named for the carved faces on its facade. The Koïfhus, the old customs house of the fifteenth century, and the Pfister House, built in the sixteenth, stand within a few minutes of each other, and the Saint-Martin collegiate church and the former Dominican church are close by. The Dominican church holds Martin Schongauer's Madonna of the Rose Bower, a painting that people cross the town to see.

The Unterlinden Museum is the one stop we would not skip. It occupies a medieval convent and a bath house that was extended by the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, it is the most visited museum in Alsace, with about 200,000 visitors a year, and it houses the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald, one of the great works of German painting. We book the visit together with the car and the lunch. A shorter visit is the Bartholdi Museum in the house on Rue des Marchands where the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty was born. A twelve-metre replica of the statue stands at the northern entrance to the town on the Route de Strasbourg, put there by the city to mark the centenary of his death.

Outside the walls the programme splits three ways. The Alsace Wine Route runs for 170 km through about 70 communes along the foot of the Vosges, and four of its villages are within 16 km of Colmar: Eguisheim, laid out in a circle around its castle, Kaysersberg, with its ramparts and the ruined imperial castle above the roofs, Riquewihr, a fortified medieval village that is at its busiest during the Christmas markets, and Ribeauvillé, a town of large wine estates. The Haut-Koenigsbourg castle, on a spur above the plain, was burned during the Thirty Years War, stood empty for centuries and was rebuilt in the first years of the twentieth century for Kaiser Wilhelm II, and it draws more than half a million visitors a year. The Vosges are the third direction. The Grand Ballon, at 1,424 m the highest summit of the range, stands in the Ballons des Vosges regional park, the Route des Crêtes runs for more than 80 km along the ridge, and the road over the Col de la Schlucht is closed from November to April, so the high road is a summer drive. Winter in the same hills means the small ski station at the Grand Ballon, with 10 slopes and 5 lifts.

 

Alsace on the plate, and the tables worth booking

The cooking of Alsace is hearty and it rewards a long lunch. Choucroute garnie is the symbol of the region, sauerkraut fermented with salt and juniper and served with pork, sausage, bacon and potatoes. Flammekueche, the tarte flambée, is a very thin dough with fromage blanc, crème fraîche, bacon and onions, and it comes straight from the oven to the table in a winstub, the traditional tavern. Baeckeoffe is the slow dish, potatoes and three meats baked for hours in a covered terrine with Alsace white wine. Kougelhopf is the yeast cake baked in a fluted mould, and it appears at breakfast and at the end of a Sunday meal. Munster cheese comes from the valley of the same name, 25 minutes from Colmar. About 90 per cent of Alsace wine is white, Riesling and Gewurztraminer lead, and the sparkling Crémant d'Alsace has its own appellation.

The tables with stars are few and close. JY's, in Colmar beside the Champ-de-Mars park, serves creative cooking by Jean-Yves Schillinger and holds two Michelin stars. The Auberge de l'Ill at Illhaeusern, on the river Ill between Colmar and Sélestat, holds two stars for classic cuisine, with the Riesling matelote of the Haeberlin family as its signature. Stars move between editions of the guide, so we check the current listing when you ask us to book, and we ask for both tables early when the party comes for the Christmas weeks or the wine fair.

 

Flying to Colmar with a dog or a cat

For a pet the paperwork is the part of a Colmar trip that needs planning, and the flight is the easy bit: the animal sits beside you in the cabin, never in a hold, and on a sector of an hour and a quarter most simply sleep. The date on the health certificate is the detail that goes wrong, because the certificate for entry to the EU is valid for only ten days.

 

 

France applies the EU rules to a pet that arrives from Britain. What the French authorities ask:

• An ISO microchip, fitted before the rabies vaccination;
• A rabies vaccination given when the animal was at least 12 weeks old, with 21 days elapsed before entry. No blood test is needed for an animal travelling from Great Britain;
• An Animal Health Certificate for each trip, issued by an Official Veterinarian and valid for ten days for entry to the EU. A British pet passport cannot be used to enter the EU;
• No more than five animals per traveller. The animal is shown to customs on arrival, and we confirm in writing the airport and the entry point for the animal;
• A dog must have at least one adult tooth. Dogs of the type that France places in category 1 (attack-type dogs without a stud book registration) cannot be imported, and category 2 dogs may enter only if they are registered in a stud book;
• 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.

Requirements for cats, ferrets, birds and anything less usual are collected on our flying with pets guide. The certificate is valid for the return as stated on it, and an animal that does not meet the British rules can be placed in quarantine for up to four months. We confirm the entry point and the paperwork for the animal in writing before the flight.

 

The Colmar calendar: music, wine, harvest and the Christmas markets

Colmar has a few weeks that fill the old town, and they are different in kind: a classical music festival in July, the wine fair at the turn of July and August, the harvest in the autumn, and the Christmas markets that make the winter season. Knowing which week you want matters more than choosing an aircraft.

 

Ways to bring the Colmar price down

• Move the dates by a few days where you can. The weeks before the markets open and the days after the wine fair closes are calmer than the fair days themselves;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits in Zurich, Strasbourg or Geneva takes less positioning than one coming from Britain, and on a sector this short positioning is a meaningful part of the bill;
• Take the light jet unless the luggage says otherwise. Four people and four bags do not need a midsize, and the money saved buys the car and the table at JY's.

 

Types of flights

Colmar produces a different mix from the Alpine resorts or the Mediterranean destinations we cover, because it is a destination for taste: the wine, the table, the museum and the old town, with business in the cities on either side of it.

• Wine and gastronomy trips, with a day on the wine road, an estate visit and a table booked well in advance;
• Christmas market weekends, small parties who arrive on the Friday and leave on the Sunday, frequently with a dog;
• Art and architecture visits, centred on the Unterlinden Museum and the Isenheim Altarpiece;
• Family trips with Europa-Park, which lies a little under an hour from Colmar by road;
• Onward trips from Colmar into the Vosges, the Black Forest and the Swiss Alps, by road or by a short second flight;
• Business visits to Basel, Mulhouse and Strasbourg, with Colmar as the base for the evening.

The day trip is the one to look at closely. Land at EuroAirport a little after nine, leave at five in the afternoon local time and you are back on the British side at about ten past five, UK time, with nearly eight hours on the ground in between, of which about an hour and forty minutes goes on the road there and back. A same-day return means the aircraft and crew wait for you rather than going home, and that waiting is paid for, but it still comes out cheaper than two separate one-way charters. We quote it both ways, so the difference is visible.

 

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Colmar is a short sector from London, and its empty legs follow the rhythm of the weekends and the markets, so it helps to know what produces them.

Because the Alsace corridor 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 evening. 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 Colmar match the day an operator releases it.

 

 

Helicopter charter

Around Colmar a helicopter is a way of seeing the country rather than of crossing it. The old town is small, the roads are good and the wine villages are a quarter of an hour apart, but the castles on the ridge and the vineyards look different from the air, and the helicopter is the way to see them in an hour. The Swiss air-rescue service Rega has a base on the airfield at Basel.

The machines on this ground are the Airbus H125 for the hills, the wider H130 for villa and country-house transfers, the H135 and the Bell 429 where a twin is wanted, and the H155 for larger parties. The short scenic loops from Colmar-Houssen are flown in a small piston helicopter that takes three passengers, which is a different thing from a private charter, and we book the charter helicopters 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 Colmar 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 Colmar

Biggin Hill, London City, Luton and Farnborough send most of the traffic on this corridor, with Southampton, Birmingham and Manchester 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.

 

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Colmar 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 outline, with the particulars changed.

 

Frequently asked questions about flying to Colmar