Private jet charter in Interlaken

No jet lands at Interlaken, and a quote that promises one is a quote that will change. The town sits on the flat ground between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, with the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau a short train ride to the south, and a charter from the London fields ends at Bern-Belp, about forty-five minutes away by road. 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. Everything else on an Interlaken trip, the cabin, the date and the helicopter, follows from that first choice of gateway.

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 Interlaken 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+ landing at Bern-Belp, the airport for Interlaken, 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 Interlaken?

There is no flight to Interlaken itself, only to the airport that serves it. From Biggin Hill or London City a light jet needs about one hour twenty minutes to Bern-Belp, and the drive from the apron to the Interlaken lakeshore adds roughly three quarters of an hour. Switzerland keeps Central European time, one hour ahead of Britain. At 411 to 725 nautical miles from the British fields we use, this is a short Alpine sector: a light jet from the south of England, a midsize one from the north. The table gives the flight into Belp from each field.

Prices for the private jet flights to Interlaken

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Bern-Belp. The Lauberhorn weekend in January, the Greenfield week in June and the Christmas fortnight can price above these figures, and the calendar block further down 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 Interlaken

The departure follows the arrival: the aircraft leaves from Bern-Belp, and anything above 3.5 tonnes has to be airborne by 19:00. From there Sion, Samedan and Lugano are short turboprop hops into other Alpine valleys, Zurich and Geneva are the airports for late departures and big cabins, and Milan, Munich, Paris and Nice are an hour or so in a light jet. The way home to Britain is priced like the way out. 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 Interlaken:

This is a small part of what is available. Few business jets are based in this corner of Switzerland, but Zurich, Geneva, Basel and northern Italy are all within about an hour of Belp, so a quote may name one of those cities as the positioning point. That is normal for an Alpine destination, and it is often where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Interlaken 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 Interlaken

One airport carries almost every Interlaken trip. The others matter when the aircraft is too large or the day runs too late for Belp, or when the programme carries on into Valais. The field in Interlaken itself is on the list so that nobody books it by mistake.

Four things to settle before a flight to Interlaken:

Border, passport and Swiss customs

A flight from Britain meets two systems at once. Passport control follows the Schengen rules, while customs follows Swiss ones, since Switzerland is not in the EU customs area. The border officers may ask for proof of accommodation, travel insurance, an onward ticket and enough money for the stay, and the formalities for a private flight are done at Belp itself. Keep receipts for anything bought in Switzerland that could attract tax or duty on the way back, and remember that the General Aviation Report for the return to Britain is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure. If the party includes passengers on other passports, tell us in the first message, because the check on arrival and the permission to land are not the same for every nationality.

From the apron to the Höheweg

Interlaken is a small town with a very large catchment. It has fewer than six thousand residents of its own and about 23,000 in the surrounding area, and the name means between the lakes. Belp is south-east of the capital, so the road to the Oberland starts almost at the airport gate and the mountains come into view within the half hour. These are the distances a driver and a helicopter pilot work with:

Interlaken, Unterseen and the two lakes

The Höheweg is the promenade that joins the town's two railway stations, with the grand hotels strung along it and the Jungfrau in the view at the far end. The Victoria-Jungfrau is the grand house on the promenade, a five-star hotel and a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. The medieval town that people call the old town is across the Aare in Unterseen, founded under a charter from a Habsburg king, with a stronghold beside the bridge over the Aare, and still protected as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. It is compact and easy to cover on foot. Harder Kulm, 1,321 m, stands just north of the town and has a railway to the top.

The lakes are the other half of the setting. Lake Thun is 17.5 km long and Lake Brienz about 14 km, joined by the Aare, which flows from one to the other, and passenger ships have run on them since the first half of the nineteenth century, today under the railway company BLS. The paddle steamer Blümlisalp is one of ten ships on Lake Thun. On Lake Brienz the ships call at the landing for Giessbach Falls and its funicular, and a short navigable stretch of the Aare connects them to Interlaken Ost. A lake afternoon is the usual way to fill the day when cloud sits on the Jungfrau.

Jungfraujoch, Schilthorn and the car-free villages

Most private clients come to Interlaken for what lies south of it. Cog railways and cable cars lift visitors out of two valleys, and the choice of base decides how the luggage travels.

The practical point is luggage. No road reaches Wengen or Mürren, so everything the hold carried continues by train or cable car, or by helicopter. We ask the hotel how the bags are handled before the aircraft is booked, and for a party with a lot of ski kit we plan the transfer as a single job rather than three.

Flying to Interlaken with a dog or a cat

A dog or a cat can fly in the cabin beside you on the Interlaken run, and the flight is the easy part. The difficulty is the entry check, because Switzerland is outside the EU and applies its own animal rules.

What Switzerland asks for when a pet arrives from Britain:

• An ISO microchip, implanted before the rabies shot. If the order is reversed the vaccination does not count;
• A rabies vaccination that is in force: the first dose is allowed from 12 weeks of age and becomes valid 21 days later;
• A Swiss or EU pet passport if the animal already has one. Without it, an official veterinary certificate from the country of departure, and we confirm in writing which document Switzerland takes for a British animal;
• A check of the animal at the red customs exit, which is compulsory. An animal arriving with incomplete papers can be turned away;
• Entry through an approved airport. For animals flown in with their owner the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office lists Basel, Geneva and Zurich, and Bern is not among them;
• On the way home, a dog needs a tapeworm treatment from a vet 24 to 120 hours before it lands in Britain, entered with product, date and time. Cats are exempt. A pet travel document and a declaration go with the animal, with up to five animals per traveller.

Rules for cats, ferrets, birds and anything less usual are in our flying with pets guide. For the entry point and for the papers on the way home we give you written confirmation before the flight, and an animal that reaches Britain without meeting the rules can face quarantine of up to four months.

The Interlaken calendar: a mid-January race, a June festival and a September marathon

Interlaken has a clear winter and a clear summer, and a few dates that sell out hotels and cars long before they sell out aircraft. Knowing which week you want matters more than choosing a cabin.

Ways to bring the Interlaken price down

• Shift the dates by a few days. The midweek around a race or a festival is quieter than the weekend itself, and the weeks at either end of the ski season are the cheapest of the winter;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits in Zurich, Geneva or Milan needs less positioning than one coming from Britain, and on a sector of eighty minutes the positioning is a real part of the bill;
• Check whether Zurich suits you as well. On the same light jet from Biggin Hill the sector to Zurich is priced about £100 higher than the one to Belp and the sector to Geneva about £100 lower. But Interlaken is 134 km from Zurich and 214 km from Geneva, against 51 km from Belp, so the saving in the air is often spent on the road, and each airport has its own slot or permission rule.

Types of flights

Interlaken produces a different mix from a hub city, because it is the gate to the best-known mountain scenery in Switzerland and at the same time a small town where the stay is built around the weather.

• Jungfraujoch and valley visits in small groups: a morning landing at Belp, the train up in the afternoon and a night in the valley;
• Winter stays in Wengen, Grindelwald or Mürren, with ski luggage, a car-free last stretch and a hotel that manages the bags;
• Summer holidays on the lakes and in the valleys, with a helicopter glacier landing as the set piece of the week;
• The Lauberhorn weekend in January, usually a small party with tickets for the Saturday and a Sunday return;
• Conference and incentive groups, since Interlaken has been a conference town for a long time;
• Festival and sport weekends: Greenfield in June and the Jungfrau Marathon in September.

A day trip from London to the Jungfraujoch is possible but leaves almost no margin. A landing a little after nine local time, an hour in the car, the rail journey of about two hours and ten minutes each way and a departure from Belp by 19:00 add up to a very long day, and weather on top can close the view you came for. We usually recommend one night in the valley, and we quote the aircraft waiting at Belp or going home empty so that the difference is on paper.

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Interlaken has no based fleet of its own, so these legs come from the pattern of the neighbouring airports, and it helps to know what produces them.

The Swiss corridor is thinner than the busiest London routes, so a client who can name a few days 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 an Interlaken match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

In the Bernese Oberland the helicopter is a tool for the last stretch and for the sights. Two operators keep bases in the area: Air Glaciers at Lauterbrunnen and Swiss Helicopter at Gsteigwiler, close to Interlaken at the foot of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Belp itself is a helicopter airport, and Rega keeps its rescue base at the Interlaken field.

For Alpine work the usual machine is the single-engine Airbus H125, the H130 gives a wider cabin for scenic transfers, and the H135 or the Bell 429 is chosen when a twin is wanted or the party is larger.

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 Interlaken 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 Interlaken

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

Interlaken 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 Interlaken