Private jet charter in Lille

The train from St Pancras takes about an hour and twenty minutes, so a private jet to Lille only earns its fee when the trip is bigger than the city: a party of five with luggage, a start in Scotland or the West Country, or a programme that carries on to Ypres, Arras or the Opal Coast. Private Jets UK builds the charter around that programme. 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. Lille Lesquin has a 2,825 m runway with a Category III approach, a general aviation handling service that wants 48 hours' notice, and a customs and border post that works until late in the evening. The real choices are between Lesquin, Le Touquet and Brussels, the day of the week, and whether the date falls on the first weekend of September, when the whole city turns into a market.

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 Lille 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 Lille?

40 minutes from Biggin Hill in a light jet, 1 hour 20 minutes from Edinburgh, and an hour on the clock to add on arrival, because France keeps Central European time. At 129 to 434 nautical miles from the British fields we use, Lille is one of the shortest sectors we sell to France, and a light-jet job from almost the whole of England and Wales. The table gives the sector from each field.

Prices for the private jet flights to Lille

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Lille Lesquin. The first weekend of September, the Christmas weeks and any arrival outside the general aviation handling hours can price above these figures, and the calendar block further down explains when.

Short sectors carry a minimum charge, which is why Biggin Hill, London City, Farnborough, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter all price at the same figure on the light jet. It is a real feature of how a one-way charter is built, because the aircraft has to return to its base, and it means that on this route you should choose the departure field for convenience and not for the mileage.

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 Lille

Lille is a good starting point for the Alps, the Riviera and the Balearics, and a poor one for anything the train does better. Paris is an hour away by TGV and Brussels about thirty-five minutes, so a jet to either is a statement and not a saving. 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 Lille:

This is a small part of what is available. A quote for Lille may name Paris, Brussels or one of the London fields as the positioning point for the aircraft, depending on where a suitable jet is free on your dates. That is normal for a regional airport, and it is frequently where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Lille 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 in Lille

Four airfields come up in a conversation about Lille. One of them is the answer for nearly every trip, and one is a grass strip that we mention because it is on the map. Opening hours below are converted to local time: the French AIP prints UTC, shifted by an hour for the summer schedule, so the local clock time is the printed figure plus one hour all year.

Four things to settle before a Lille landing:

Border, passport and the customs booking

The first landing in the Schengen area is where the formalities happen. At Lesquin the office is a proper customs and border post and not an afterthought, with hours that run to eleven at night local time, but the general aviation service that meets the aircraft keeps shorter hours, from seven in the morning to nine in the evening, and asks for 48 hours of notice. The mismatch is where bookings go wrong: an evening arrival after nine is possible on request, though it is a conversation with the handler and not a formality. We send the passenger details with the handler's booking and keep the customs request in the same thread. A Monday morning arrival is the easiest, and a Friday night before a long weekend is the one to avoid. At Le Touquet the customs and police desk works from nine in the morning to seven in the evening local time and wants the aircraft registration, the captain's name and the passport numbers of every passenger in the request, so the list has to be final earlier than people expect. For the return, the General Aviation Report for Britain is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure.

From the apron to Lille and Flanders

Lille is a Flemish city that happens to be in France: for a long time it belonged to the Spanish Netherlands, and the brick and stone of the old town show it. The city has about 240,000 residents and the metropolitan area about 1.5 million, and it sits on the crossing of the high-speed lines to Paris, Brussels and London. The centre is compact and walkable, and nearly everything a visitor wants is close to the Grand Place, officially the Place du Général-de-Gaulle, where a column topped by the Goddess commemorates the city's resistance to a siege in the late eighteenth century.

The Vieille Bourse, built in the middle of the seventeenth century while Lille was under Spanish rule, is the building to see first. Twenty-four identical houses in the Flemish Renaissance manner stand around an inner courtyard, and the courtyard is still used by booksellers, florists and chess players. The Palais des Beaux-Arts, a short walk away, holds Van Dyck, Rubens, Delacroix, Goya, Rodin, Claudel and Carpeaux, forty drawings by Raphael, and a collection of relief models of about fifteen fortified towns of Flanders, made for the fortress map of the Vauban period. Allow two hours, and more if the party likes painting.

The newer Lille is Euralille. Rem Koolhaas and his office were commissioned in the late 1980s to plan a business district around the new stations, and the first phase opened in the middle of the 1990s: the Lille Europe station by Jean-Marie Duthilleul, two office towers above it, and the Triangle des Gares shopping centre by Jean Nouvel. Lille Flandres, the older station, stands beside it. The Eurostar leaves from Lille Europe, and the TGV takes about an hour to Paris and about thirty-five minutes to Brussels. For a client with a meeting in Euralille, the useful fact is that the district stands beside the stations in the middle of the city, so the drive from Lesquin ends at the door.

Food is part of the case for coming. The local table is Flemish: carbonnade, beef stewed in dark beer with mustard and gingerbread; the welsh, a plate of bread, beer and cheddar baked with ham; potjevleesch, a cold terrine of white meats in jelly; and the tarte au maroilles, built on the strong washed-rind cheese of the region. The estaminet, a wood-beamed pub that serves these dishes at long tables, is the right place to eat them. Mussels and chips go with the Braderie and with most of the year. On the sweet side, Maison Meert, at 27 rue Esquermoise, a confectioner's shop since the eighteenth century, is known for a hand-made waffle filled with Madagascar vanilla, and the shop has a gilded ceiling. The drink is beer, from a white beer to the Trois Monts of the French Flemish country, and jenever, the juniper spirit, after the meal.

Roubaix and Tourcoing: the textile towns next door

The two towns that fill the north-east of the metropolitan area are worth a half day, and they are not the postcard Lille. Roubaix made its fortune from textiles, and the collection of La Piscine began in the nineteenth century with fabric samples from its factories. The museum sits in an Art Deco swimming pool, designed by the Lille architect Albert Baert and built in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which was closed as a pool in the 1980s and reopened as a museum of art and industry. Textiles, fashion, ceramics and fine arts are shown around the old basin. Roubaix is also the finish of one of the most famous one-day bicycle races in the world, which ends on the concrete track of the town's velodrome.

Tourcoing lies right next to Roubaix, on the Belgian border, and forms a conurbation with the Belgian towns of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai. The big neo-Gothic church of Saint-Christophe has an 80 m tower with more than 80 bells, and a botanical garden and an arboretum give the town a quiet corner. Both towns have direct trains to Lille and are a short drive from the city centre, so they combine easily with a lunch in Lille.

Ypres and the Flanders Fields

Ypres is across the border in Belgium, about 40 km and forty minutes from Lille. The whole country around it was fought over in the First World War, and for many British families the reason to come is a name on a memorial. The Menin Gate in Ypres carries the names of about 54,000 Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Salient and have no known grave. Every evening at eight, buglers from the Last Post Association stop the traffic under the arch and sound the Last Post, a ceremony that has been held since the late 1920s with a pause only for the German occupation. It is brief and quiet. Tyne Cot Cemetery and the ground at Hill 60 lie close to the town.

A visit of this kind is easy to plan badly. The cemeteries are spread over farmland and reached by small roads, and a guide who knows the Salient saves hours. We arrange the car and, if the family wishes, a licensed guide, and we time the arrival so that the party can be at the Menin Gate before eight. A jet to Lille and a driver waiting at the aircraft door turns a long day by train and taxi into an unhurried one, with the flight home timed after the ceremony and agreed with the handler in advance, because its usual hours end at nine.

Arras, Lens and the Louvre-Lens

Arras, about 52 km from Lille, belongs to the same day trip. Its Grand Place and the Place des Héros, rebuilt in brick after the First World War, are surrounded by about 155 townhouses in the Flemish Baroque style, and the belfry of the town hall, 75 m high, is part of the UNESCO listing of the belfries of Belgium and France. Beneath the town are the boves, a network of medieval tunnels that tunnellers of the British Empire, among them New Zealanders, extended before the First World War battle there, and the Carrière Wellington museum shows part of it. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial stands on Hill 145, about 11 km north of the town. Arras holds a large Christmas market in the winter, the Main Square Festival in early July and a ten-day film festival in November.

On the way, Lens has the Louvre-Lens, a branch of the Paris museum opened in December on a former mining site. The building is by the Japanese architects SANAA, and its centrepiece is the Galerie du Temps, a hall of about 3,000 square metres in which about 200 works from the Louvre are arranged in time order from about 3,500 BC to the middle of the nineteenth century. It is a good stop for a party that wants one serious museum and does not want a day in Paris.

Le Touquet, the Opal Coast and the Pas-de-Calais beaches

The Opal Coast runs for about 120 km from the Belgian border to Picardy, and it is the part of France nearest to England: Cap Blanc-Nez rises 132 m, Cap Gris-Nez 50 m, and the chalk of the English side is only about 34 km across the water. The painter who named it, in the early twentieth century, was thinking of its light. For a client based in Lille the coast is the natural weekend extension, and the Pas-de-Calais beaches are broad, flat and windy: sand yachting and long walks are the pastimes.

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage is the polished end of it. It has been a resort of the British since the Edwardian era, with mock-Tudor villas, a racecourse, golf clubs, tennis and riding in the pine forest, and its airport, named after Queen Elizabeth II, is used mostly by private aircraft. A light jet from the London fields is on the ground in about 35 minutes. From Lille the coast is about two hours by road, which is why some clients fly to Lille for business and then take an aircraft or a helicopter on to the coast for the weekend.

The Belgian border cities and the beer

The border is invisible on this side of Lille. Both countries are in Schengen, and the road to Belgium has no check, so a party can lunch in Tourcoing and dine in Kortrijk or Tournai on the same evening. Bruges is about 75 km and an hour and ten minutes away, and Brussels about 110 km, an hour and a half by road or about thirty-five minutes by TGV. Ghent and Antwerp are on the same axis, and Belgian beer is reason enough to cross. We book the car and the table, and the aircraft waits at Lesquin.

Flying to Lille with a dog or a cat

For a pet the paperwork is the part of a trip to northern France 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 forty minutes most simply sleep. The date on the health certificate is the detail that goes wrong, because the certificate is valid for only ten days for entry to the EU.

What an EU country such as France asks for when a pet arrives from Britain:

• An ISO microchip, fitted before the rabies vaccination or at the same time;
• A rabies vaccination given when the animal was at least 12 weeks old, with 21 days elapsed before the animal travels;
• 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, presented at a travellers' point of entry, which we confirm in writing for the airport;
• 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. 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 Lille calendar: one big weekend and a few long seasons

Lille has a mild northern climate and no real off-season, but it has one weekend that changes everything. The Braderie fills the city on the first weekend of September, and the spring cycling classic and the Christmas weeks matter nearly as much to the price as the weather does.

Ways to bring the Lille price down

• Choose the day. A weekday arrival inside the general aviation hours of 07:00 to 21:00 local is the cheapest and the simplest, and a late arrival means a request to the handler;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits in Paris or Brussels takes less positioning than one coming from Britain, and on a sector of this length positioning is a meaningful part of the bill;
• Pick the cabin for the people, not the mileage. On a light jet from Biggin Hill and from Exeter the price is the same £5,300, because of the minimum on short sectors, and from Luton the step up from a Phenom at £5,700 to a Citation XLS+ adds £1,100, so ask for both figures.

Types of flights

Lille produces a different mix from the Alpine or the Italian destinations we cover, because it is a business city on the crossing of three countries, with the battlefields, the coast and the beer cities on its doorstep.

• Business and trade visits to Euralille and the metropolitan area of about 1.5 million people;
• Remembrance trips to Ypres, Vimy and the cemeteries of the Salient and Artois, often with a family and a guide;
• City breaks built around the Braderie, the Christmas market, the Palais des Beaux-Arts and an estaminet;
• Cycling weekends around Paris-Roubaix in April;
• Opal Coast weekends at Le Touquet, with golf, the beach and a hotel;
• Cross-border days in Bruges, Ghent and Brussels that start and end at Lesquin.

The day trip is the one to look at closely. Land at about nine, leave at five in the afternoon local time and you are back on the British side by about twenty to five, UK time, with eight hours on the ground in between. 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. Lille has no single event that creates them every week, so they come from the rhythm of a business city with a tourist season, and it helps to know what produces them.

Because the Lille 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 Lille match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

In Lille a helicopter is a tool for the edges of a trip and not the middle. The city is small enough to cross by car, and the places where rotary flight changes the journey are the Opal Coast, the battlefields of Flanders and Artois, and the link with a jet that lands somewhere else. Lesquin lists helicopter stands in its AIP, so the airport can take a helicopter on arrival, but we cannot point to a helicopter operator based there, so an aircraft is normally positioned from elsewhere in the north of France or from Belgium, and the quote says from where.

The machines on this ground are the Airbus H125 for scenic and coastal work, the wider H130 for hotel 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 Lille 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 Lille

Biggin Hill, London City, Farnborough and Luton send most of the traffic on this corridor, with Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter close behind and the Midlands, the north 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

Lille 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 Lille