Private jet charter in Leverkusen

A light jet leaves the London fields after breakfast and is on the ground beside Cologne in about an hour and ten minutes, which makes a morning meeting in Leverkusen realistic, but the city has no commercial airport of its own and the right landing point depends on the day. Private Jets UK arranges 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. For Leverkusen we nearly always land at Cologne/Bonn, 22 km away in a straight line and open all night, with Düsseldorf, 32 km to the north, as the second choice when the day belongs to the Düsseldorf fairs.

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 Leverkusen 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 Cologne/Bonn, 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 Leverkusen?

An hour and ten minutes from Biggin Hill or London City, a quarter of an hour more from Luton and Farnborough, an hour and twenty from Southampton and Birmingham, and an hour and three quarters from Glasgow. Germany keeps Central European time, one hour ahead of Britain, so wheels up at seven in the morning means touching down at about ten past nine by the local clock. The table gives the sector into Cologne/Bonn, the airport we use for most Leverkusen trips: 280 to 532 nautical miles, short enough that a light jet suits nearly every party and a large aircraft is justified only when Leverkusen is the first stop of a longer journey.

Prices for the private jet flights to Leverkusen

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Cologne/Bonn. The big fair weeks in Cologne and Düsseldorf sit above these figures, and the calendar block further down shows when they fall.

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 Leverkusen

Leverkusen is wedged between Cologne and Düsseldorf, with Wuppertal and the Bergisches Land behind it, and the neighbouring centres are joined by motorways and fast trains. A jet is rarely the right answer for them, and we say so. Düsseldorf is only 30 nautical miles from Cologne/Bonn and Dortmund 45, distances a car or a regional train often matches. Where an aircraft does earn its place is the second leg of a business week, the day that starts at the Chempark and ends in Frankfurt or Amsterdam, and the long sector on to Munich, Paris or the Gulf. Typical one-way prices from Cologne/Bonn, the gateway we use for jets out of Leverkusen:

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 Leverkusen:

This is a small part of what is available. Leverkusen lies in the middle of the Cologne and Düsseldorf fleets, with Amsterdam and Frankfurt a short positioning flight away, and Cologne/Bonn sees thousands of business aviation movements in a year, so outside a fair week some suitable aircraft is normally standing within reach. That is where the better price usually comes from. In the gamescom week or the Anuga week the same aircraft are taken early, which is the reason to ask early.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Leverkusen 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 Leverkusen

More than one airport serves Leverkusen, and they fall into four groups: the one we use for nearly every trip, the one that is better for certain days, the little airfield inside the city that jets cannot use, and the fallbacks. It helps to know them before a quote arrives with one of them in it.

Four things decide most Leverkusen arrivals:

Border and passport: clear once, at the first airport

You deal with the formalities where you first touch German soil and nowhere else on the trip. A party that lands at Cologne/Bonn for a meeting in Leverkusen is through the border check at the airport and meets no further control on the road, and one that carries on to Düsseldorf or Amsterdam after Leverkusen is checked once, on arrival. For the return to Britain a General Aviation Report is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure, and a guest who does not hold a British or Irish passport usually needs a UK electronic travel authorisation or a visa for the flight home. We collect passport details for every passenger when the booking is made and not at the gate.

From the apron to the BayArena

Leverkusen has about 170,000 people and is better known for what it makes and for its football than for its looks. A chemist, Carl Leverkus, started a factory in the village of Wiesdorf on the east bank of the Rhine, Bayer took it over and moved its head office there, and the group, the Chempark that Currenta operates beside it and the football club that Bayer employees founded still define the place. Around that core sit a rococo castle with a museum of modern art, a park built on a former landfill, a Japanese garden and, a short drive east, a Gothic abbey church. Beyond it rises the Bergisches Land, a low hill country east of the Rhine with more than twenty reservoirs, whose largest town is Wuppertal. The distances that matter are the transfers from the airports and the short hops across the city.

Flying to Leverkusen with a dog or a cat

The flight is short enough that most animals settle and sleep, and the animal sits beside you in the cabin. The paperwork asks for more attention than the flight does. The health certificate is dated for entry into the EU rather than for the whole trip, and its ten days run from the day it is issued.

What Germany asks for on the way in:

• A microchip, implanted before the rabies vaccination or on the same day, never afterwards;
• A rabies vaccination given at 12 weeks of age or later, with 21 days to pass before entry;
• An Animal Health Certificate from an Official Veterinarian, issued no more than ten days before entry to the EU and valid for the return to Britain as stated on the certificate. A pet passport issued in England, Scotland or Wales is not accepted for entry;
• No more than five animals per traveller, presented at a travellers' point of entry;
• For dogs, a vet's tapeworm treatment between 24 and 120 hours before the flight back to Britain, recorded in the paperwork with product, date and time. Cats do not need it.

Requirements for cats, ferrets, birds and anything less usual are collected on our flying with pets guide. For a private flight with an animal into Britain we confirm the entry point and the paperwork for the animal in writing before the flight, and our managers confirm the position for your dates before a booking is taken.

The Leverkusen calendar: football, carnival and two fairgrounds next door

Leverkusen sets one rhythm of its own, the football season and the carnival, and borrows a heavy fair calendar from Cologne, ten kilometres away, and from Düsseldorf. The Koelnmesse has about 284,000 square metres of exhibition space, the Düsseldorf fairground runs a programme that fills most of the year, and hotel rooms across the whole Rhine corridor, Leverkusen included, follow those dates much more closely than they follow the weather. This is the thing to read before choosing a day.

Ways to bring the Leverkusen price down

• Move the dates by a few days where you can. The days after a big fair closes are calm, and so are early summer and the weeks between the end of the football season and gamescom;
• Let us choose between Cologne/Bonn and Düsseldorf when the meeting allows. From London they price almost alike, but an aircraft that is already standing at one of them saves its positioning, and from Scotland the nearer field can be several hundred pounds cheaper: a Glasgow departure is £9,400 into Düsseldorf and £9,850 into Cologne/Bonn;
• Keep to the light jet unless the baggage forces the issue. A party of four with ordinary suitcases gains nothing from a midsize cabin, and the saving pays for the car and the hotel.

Types of flights

Leverkusen produces a different mix from a resort or a capital. It is a company town first, a football town second, and a base from which two of the biggest fair cities in Germany are an easy drive away.

• Chemical and pharmaceutical business. Visitors to the Bayer headquarters and to the companies in the Chempark, usually small parties on fixed days, out and back within the day;
• Trade fairs in two cities. Exhibitors, buyers and stand teams for Cologne and Düsseldorf who sleep in Leverkusen when the fair hotels are full, with heavy luggage and a short window on the ground;
• Football. Bayer 04 home matches, normally a same-evening return that depends on the airport staying open;
• Culture and countryside. Schloss Morsbroich, the Neuland-Park beside the Rhine, Altenberg Cathedral, Cologne Cathedral, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn and the Bergisches Land, usually weekend parties of two to six;
• Carnival and Christmas market weekends in Leverkusen, Cologne and Düsseldorf, sometimes with a dog;
• Gamescom and the games industry: studios and publishers with flight cases and a hurry.

The day return deserves a closer look. London is an hour and ten minutes away, Cologne/Bonn does not close, and that leaves the time of the return to the meeting and not to the airport. The aircraft and crew wait on the ground, and that wait is a real line in the quote, but the total is normally below two one-way charters. We quote it both ways so that you see the difference.

Empty Legs

Sometimes an aircraft has to fly without passengers to reach its next job, and the operator sells that flight cheaply to fill the seats. On the Rhine these appear in bursts that follow the fair and football calendar.

Flexibility is what pays here. A client with a window of several days finds a match far more often than one who needs a particular evening, and the trade-off is that the date and the hour belong to the operator, who may withdraw the leg if the original booking changes. Open legs are posted on our empty legs page, and we tell you about a Cologne leg as soon as an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

Around Leverkusen a helicopter does one thing no road can: it takes the Rhine bridges and the motorway junctions out of the journey. Cologne/Bonn to the city is a short hop in the air against a drive of about half an hour, and the Bergisches Land lies just beyond. The figures are straight-line distances and approximate flying times, set against the road.

For this ground we use the Airbus H125 for light passenger work, the Bell 429 and Agusta 109 when a twin-engine machine is wanted, and the H155 for larger parties. The helicopter is booked together with the jet, so both crews work from 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 Leverkusen 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 Leverkusen

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 into Cologne/Bonn. 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

Leverkusen 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 Leverkusen