Private jet charter in Como

Lake Como is an hour and a half from a London airfield by private jet, but the jet does not land on the lake: the town of Como has no airport that can take one, only a seaplane base for small piston aircraft, so every charter here begins with the choice of a gateway. 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. Milan Malpensa stands about 60 km from the water by road, Linate and Bergamo are further, Lugano lies across the Swiss frontier, and a helicopter closes the last stretch in a quarter of an hour. The real decisions are which airport, which border and which of the lake's busy weeks you are flying into.

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 to Lake Como 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 Lake Como?

About 1 hour 35 minutes from Biggin Hill or London City in a light jet, about 2 hours 15 minutes from Edinburgh in a midsize cabin, and one hour of clock difference to allow for on arrival, because Italy keeps Central European time. The times below are for the flight to Milan Malpensa, the gateway most Lake Como trips use, since the lake itself has nowhere for a jet to land. At 506 to 821 nautical miles from the British fields we use, it is a light-jet sector from the south of England and a midsize job from Scotland. The table gives the sector from each field.

Prices for the private jet flights to Lake Como

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Milan Malpensa. Linate and Bergamo come out within a few hundred pounds of these figures and Lugano a little lower, as the notes further down explain. The week of the classic-car concours, the early-September forum and the Christmas weeks can price above these figures, and the calendar block explains when.

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 Lake Como

Nothing leaves from the lake itself, so the sectors below are flown from Malpensa, a quarter of an hour by helicopter or about 48 minutes by road from the Cernobbio shore. From there the Alps are close: Zurich and Samedan, the airport for St Moritz, are 40 to 45 minutes away by turboprop, Geneva, Nice and Munich are a short light-jet hop, and Olbia, Paris and the Gulf are the longer sectors. 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 Lake Como:

This is a small part of what is available. Lake Como sits within reach of Milan, Zurich and Nice, so there is often an aircraft within an hour of Malpensa, and a quote may name one of those cities as the positioning point. That is normal for a destination with no airport of its own, and it is frequently where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Lake Como 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 Lake Como

Como has no jet airport. The town has a seaplane base on the lake and a gliding field in the hills, neither of which takes a business jet, so the real list is the airports around it. Which one is right depends on where on the lake you are going, how big the aircraft is and what time you need to land.

Four things to settle before a Lake Como arrival:

Border, passport and the Swiss frontier

The first landing in the Schengen area is where the formalities happen, and at Malpensa that means being escorted through customs and immigration at the general aviation terminal, since clearance cannot be done on the aircraft. After that the lake is open country. Como itself borders Switzerland, at Chiasso and Vacallo, and the frontier has had no routine passport control since Switzerland joined Schengen, but because Switzerland is outside the EU customs union, customs checks can still be carried out at the border and goods have to be declared. Villa d'Este gives its own directions from Lugano along the A9 towards Como and Chiasso, leaving at Cernobbio Lago about 200 metres after the Swiss border and customs. For the return to Britain, the General Aviation Report is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure, and passengers who are not British or Irish citizens may need an electronic travel authorisation to enter.

From the apron to the lake

Lake Como is shaped like an inverted Y, 46 km long, 146 square kilometres in area and up to 425 m deep, with Como at the foot of the south-western branch and Lecco on the south-eastern one. Como itself has about 84,000 people, a cathedral begun in the fourteenth century and a funicular up to Brunate at 715 m. What matters to a private client is the shore: Cernobbio with Villa d'Este and Villa Erba, Laglio, the Tremezzo side of the west bank, Bellagio on the headland where the branches meet and Varenna opposite. Boats run between all of them, and Navigazione Laghi operates the ferries and hydrofoils.

Flying to Lake Como with a dog or a cat

For a pet the paperwork is the part of an Italian 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 an hour and a half most simply sleep. Italy is an EU country, so the European rules apply, and the second question is the lake itself, because a day in Ticino turns the trip into a Swiss one.

What Italy asks for when a pet arrives from Britain:

• An ISO microchip, fitted before or at the same time as the rabies vaccination, never after it;
• A rabies vaccination given from 12 weeks of age, with 21 days to pass before travel;
• An animal health certificate from an official veterinarian, needed for each trip and valid for ten days for entry to the EU, and valid for the return as stated on the certificate. A British pet passport is not accepted. Defra publishes the Italian version as certificate 9072;
• Entry through a travellers' point of entry, with no more than five animals per traveller. Which entry point applies to a private aircraft we confirm in writing before the flight;
• For dogs, a tapeworm treatment from a vet between 24 and 120 hours before arrival back in Britain, with a pet travel document and a declaration. Cats are exempt.

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 our managers check the position for your dates before a booking is taken.

The Lake Como calendar: cars in May, a forum in September, lights in December

Lake Como has a long season and a short list of fixed weeks. The lake works best between April and October, the weeks that matter most are the few with a famous event in them, and winter is quiet until the Christmas lights. Knowing which week you want matters more than choosing an aircraft.

Ways to bring the Lake Como price down

• Move the dates by a few days where you can. The days either side of the Concorso weekend and the early-September forum are calmer than the weekends themselves;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits in Milan, Zurich or Nice takes less positioning than one coming from Britain, and on a sector of this length positioning is a meaningful part of the bill;
• Compare the gateways. On the same light jet from Biggin Hill, Linate and Bergamo are priced about £300 above Malpensa, and Lugano about £150 below it. The Lugano saving is real and so is the border crossing and the 35 km by road, so let the hotel decide.

Types of flights

Lake Como produces a different mix from the Alpine or the big-city destinations we cover, because it is a resort with a famous hotel, a handful of fixed events and no airport, in a region where the nearest runways belong to Milan and to Switzerland.

• Weekends and weeks on the lake, with a villa or a hotel at Cernobbio, Tremezzo or Bellagio, often with a dog and a car waiting at Malpensa;
• Gala weekends: the Concorso d'Eleganza in May, private celebrations in the summer and the Christmas lights, all with formal clothes in the hold;
• Business and policy gatherings at Cernobbio, led by the September forum, where timing is fixed and arrival formalities are the main concern;
• Overflow from Milan in the fashion, design and Monza weeks, with some guests working in the city and sleeping on the lake;
• Day trips across the frontier to Lugano, with a driver who knows the border posts and the airport that fits;
• Onward hops to Samedan for St Moritz, to Zurich and Geneva and to the Mediterranean inside a longer European loop.

The day trip is the one to look at closely. Land at Malpensa at about half past nine, leave at six in the evening local time and you are back on the British side at about half past six UK time, with roughly eight and a half hours on the ground. Take off the drive each way and about seven of them are on the shore. 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. Lake Como does not produce them in volume, but it produces them on a pattern, and it helps to know what that is.

Because lake dates cluster around a few events, 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 Malpensa match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

On Lake Como a helicopter is part of the middle of the trip and not only the edge. The airports are close to an hour away by road, the shore is long, and the places people go are strung along it. Villa d'Este has a private helipad for its guests, and a private civil heliport in the Como area, open from 07:00 to 23:00 according to its operator, sends machines to Malpensa, to the lake and over the Alps.

The seaplane is the other aircraft of the lake, and a pleasure rather than a transfer. Aero Club Como, which calls itself the oldest seaplane flying organisation in the world, flies scenic trips over Bellagio and Villa del Balbianello in small single-engine floatplanes, from the water beside the Sinigaglia stadium in the city. It cannot meet a jet and is not an airport of entry, so we book it as an experience on the day after arrival, not as a way to reach the lake.

The machines on this ground are the Airbus H125 for scenic and mountain work, the wider H130 for villa and lakeside transfers, the H135 and the Bell 429 where a twin is wanted, and the H155 for larger parties. 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 Lake Como 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 Lake Como

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, all into Malpensa. 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

Lake Como 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 Lake Como