Private jet charter in Lausanne

From London, Lausanne is a flight to Geneva followed by a drive along the lake, because the city's own airfield on the hill to the north has one runway of about 875 metres and is built for light aircraft, not for the business jets we charter. Private Jets UK therefore plans every Lausanne trip around the choice of airport first and the aircraft second. 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. Geneva takes any jet we would put on it, Blécherette suits a turboprop or a helicopter, and Sion or Bern come in when the programme ends in the mountains or the capital. That leaves three things to decide: the gateway, the departure hour and the way you cover the last stretch to the water.

 

 

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 Lausanne 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 Geneva, the airport for Lausanne, 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 Lausanne?

About 1 hour 20 minutes from Biggin Hill or London City to Geneva in a light jet and 1 hour 15 minutes from Farnborough in a Phenom, then about 40 minutes by road or 15 minutes by helicopter to the city. Switzerland keeps Central European time, so set the watch forward one hour on arrival. The British fields we use lie 404 to 728 nautical miles from Geneva, which makes the jet leg a light-jet sector from the south of England and a midsize one from Scotland. The table gives the flight from each field to Geneva, the airport that carries nearly every Lausanne charter.

 

 

 

Prices for the private jet flights to Lausanne

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Geneva. The road or helicopter leg into Lausanne is quoted alongside the jet and is not part of these figures. The Christmas and New Year weeks, the February half-term and the Montreux jazz fortnight in July sit 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 Lausanne

A Lausanne departure is a Geneva departure in practice, with the car or helicopter first. From there the lake city works well as a start for the Alps, the Riviera and the capitals, and the sensible aircraft depends on the distance. Hops over the mountains are turboprop work, Bern and Zurich are close enough that the train usually wins, and Paris, Milan and Nice are one to two hours in a light jet. 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 Lausanne:

 

 

 

This is a small part of what is available. Geneva sees plenty of business aviation traffic, so a quote can often find an aircraft already on the lake, and a jet based at Geneva, Sion or Milan can be cheaper to position than one flying out of Britain. Nobody minds an aircraft that starts its day on the lake, and the saving is often the reason to ask.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Lausanne 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 Lausanne

One airport does the work, one airfield belongs to the city itself, and two more matter when the programme leaves the lake. Which one is right depends on the size of the cabin and on where the evening ends.

 

Four things to settle before the wheels touch:

 

 

Border, passport and Swiss customs

For a British passenger the Swiss border has two layers. Passport control follows Schengen practice, while customs follows Swiss law, and the officer may ask where you are staying, how you are insured and how you plan to leave. At Geneva both are dealt with in the business aviation terminal and not in the airline halls, which saves the queue, and receipts for purchases made on the lake are worth keeping for the way back into Britain. Before the return flight the General Aviation Report is filed no earlier than 48 hours and no later than 2 hours before departure.

 

 

What a private client does on the lake

Lausanne is compact, and most programmes are built from the same few pieces, all within about an hour and a quarter of the city.

• The Olympic city. The Olympic Museum stands in a sculpture park on the shore at Ouchy and holds more than 10,000 objects. The International Olympic Committee has its headquarters at Vidy, just to the west, and about 55 international sports associations are based in the city, so delegations and federation meetings are a steady part of our Lausanne work;
• The palace hotels. The Beau-Rivage Palace at Ouchy has 168 rooms and saw the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne and, much later, the Iran nuclear framework talks. The Lausanne Palace in the centre has 106 rooms and was the home of three IOC presidents. Along the shore, the Montreux Palace has 236 rooms;
• EPFL. The federal polytechnic lies on the lakeshore at Écublens, west of the centre, with about 14,000 students, the Rolex Learning Center and the SwissTech Convention Center. It brings research visitors and congress delegates, and the M1 metro serves the campus;
• Lavaux. UNESCO lists the vineyard terraces east of the city as a World Heritage site. They run for about 30 km along the lake and grow mostly Chasselas, and a regional train covers the five minutes to Lutry and the 22 to Saint-Saphorin, so nobody needs to drive;
• Vevey and Montreux. Vevey is the home of Nestlé and the Alimentarium, and Charlie Chaplin lived above the town for the last quarter century of his life. His manor at Corsier-sur-Vevey is now Chaplin's World, with the house, a studio set and 30 wax figures. Montreux, 28 km from Lausanne, has the jazz festival;
• Gruyères and the French shore. The medieval hill town of Gruyères, with its castle, its cheese and the Giger museum, is under an hour from Lausanne, and the CGN boat from Ouchy reaches Évian-les-Bains in about 35 minutes;
• The ski villages. Villars, Gryon and Les Diablerets share a ski area of about 112 km of slopes, Les Diablerets climbs to the Glacier 3000 at the Scex Rouge, and Verbier, at 1,500 m in the 4 Vallées, lies about an hour and a quarter from the city.

 

From the apron to the lakefront

Lausanne climbs from the water at Ouchy to the cathedral and the old town some 150 metres higher, and the vineyards, the museums and the ski villages all start from there. A private client therefore thinks in road times from the city, and these are the ones we plan with.

 

Flying to Lausanne with a dog or a cat

Lausanne is the easy Swiss case for a pet, because the airport we use is one that the Swiss veterinary office names for animals arriving by air. The animal travels beside you in the cabin and not in a hold, and an hour and twenty minutes is short enough for most to settle quickly. The paperwork is where trips go wrong, and Switzerland, being outside the EU, keeps its own list.

 

 

What Switzerland asks for when a pet arrives from Britain:

• An ISO microchip, implanted before the rabies vaccination and never after it;
• A valid rabies vaccination: the first dose from 12 weeks of age, recognised 21 days after it is given;
• An EU or Swiss pet passport if the animal holds one, and otherwise an official veterinary certificate from the country of departure. Which document Switzerland accepts for a British animal is something we confirm in writing;
• A compulsory pet check at the red exit of customs, where an animal with incomplete papers can be turned back;
• An approved entry point. The Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office names Basel, Geneva and Zurich for animals brought in by air with their owner, so Geneva fits the plan, while Blécherette is not on that list;
• On the way home a dog needs a tapeworm treatment given by a vet 24 to 120 hours before it lands in Britain, entered with product, date and time. Cats do not. The animal travels with a pet travel document and a declaration, and one traveller may bring up to five animals.

Cats, ferrets, birds and anything less usual are covered in our flying with pets guide. An animal that reaches Britain without meeting the rules can be held in quarantine for up to four months, so we confirm the paperwork for both directions before the flight.

 

The Lausanne calendar: skiing, jazz, athletics and the grape harvest

The city has no single season. The lake is busiest from May to September, the Vaud ski resorts fill from December, and three headline events decide which weeks are hard to book. Choosing the week matters more than choosing the aircraft.

 

Ways to bring the Lausanne price down

• Shift the dates by a day or two if you can. Midweek costs less than a Friday to Sunday, and the weeks outside the jazz fortnight and the Christmas period are calmer;
• Ask where the aircraft sleeps. A jet already parked at Geneva, Sion or Milan needs less positioning than one flying out from Britain, and on a sector this short the empty flight is a real part of the bill;
• Compare the gateways honestly. On the same light jet from Biggin Hill the sector to Geneva is the baseline, Bern is priced about £100 higher, Zurich about £200 higher and Sion about £400 higher. Geneva is both the shortest flight and the shortest road to Lausanne, so it nearly always wins.

 

Types of flights

Lausanne produces a different mix from the ski valleys and the hub cities, because it is a university and Olympic city on a lake, with the mountains an hour behind it.

• Short stays in the city: the Olympic Museum, the IOC and the international sports federations, whose headquarters are concentrated here, and the lakeside hotels;
• Business trips to EPFL, the SwissTech Convention Center and the companies of Vaud, in a light jet to Geneva and a car for the last 40 minutes;
• Wine and lake weekends: Lavaux, Vevey, Montreux and a boat to Évian-les-Bains from Ouchy;
• Ski weeks in Villars, Les Diablerets and Verbier, flown to Geneva with the ski luggage;
• Family and group trips, with children, grandparents and a dog on board;
• Event weekends: Montreux Jazz in July, Paléo in Nyon and Athletissima in the summer.

A same-day return works well here. With the Geneva terminals listing 06:00 to 22:00, a morning departure from Britain, a lunch or a meeting in Lausanne and a late-afternoon departure all fit inside the day, with the aircraft held at the apron. You pay for the waiting time, yet the total usually stays below two separate one-way charters, and we price both versions so you can compare.

 

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. Geneva sees plenty of business aviation traffic, which feeds them, and it helps to know where the Lausanne ones begin.

Flexibility is what pays: a client who offers a three-day window finds a match far more often than one who needs a particular evening. The trade-off is that the operator controls the date and the hour, and a leg disappears if the original booking changes. Free legs are listed on our empty legs page, and when one touches Geneva we tell you as soon as the operator releases it.

 

 

Helicopter charter

Around Lausanne a helicopter is a tool for the last stretch. For most guests the motorway does the job, and a helicopter earns its fee only where the road is slow or absent: the lakeshore in a Friday queue, a chalet above Villars, the far side of the water. Blécherette is itself a helicopter base, since Heli-Lausanne flies from the field and Rega keeps a rescue base there.

The machines on this ground are the Airbus H125 for Alpine work, the wider H130 for chalet and lake transfers, the Bell 429 where a twin is wanted and the H155 for larger parties. We book them alongside the jet.

 

 

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 Lausanne 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 Lausanne

Most of the traffic to the lake starts at Biggin Hill, London City, Farnborough or Luton, with Southampton, Bristol and Birmingham next and Scotland at the far end; the price table above prices thirteen departure points, all into Geneva. 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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Lausanne 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 Lausanne