Private jet charter in Montpellier

Montpellier lies a little over an hour and a half from the London fields in a light jet, and nearly all of the planning comes down to one decision: which of five airports the aircraft should use. 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. Montpellier-Méditerranée sits 7 km east-south-east of the city centre, has a 2,600 m runway with a Category I instrument approach, a business aviation apron of about ten stands and customs that works from six in the morning to eleven at night local time, which is late for a regional field. What remains to settle is the handling agent, the hour of a late return and whether the week you want falls on a dance festival or a rugby night.

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 Montpellier 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 Montpellier?

1 hour 35 minutes from Biggin Hill or London City in a light jet, 2 hours 10 minutes from Edinburgh, and an hour of clock difference to add on arrival, because France keeps Central European time. The British fields we use lie 511 to 837 nautical miles from the airport, which makes Montpellier an easy light-jet sector from the south of England and a job for a larger cabin from Scotland. The table gives each field in turn.

Prices for the private jet flights to Montpellier

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into the business aviation apron at Montpellier-Méditerranée. The dance and music festivals of June and July, a home rugby weekend and the August beach 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 Montpellier

Montpellier lies midway between Provence and Catalonia, so the sectors out of it are short. Marseille is a turboprop hop, Nice, Lyon and Barcelona are light-jet flights of about three quarters of an hour or less, and Paris takes a little more than an hour. 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 Montpellier:

This is a small part of what is available. Montpellier is a regional airport with few business jets of its own, so a quote may name Nice, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse or Paris as the point where the aircraft is positioned from. That is normal for a field of this size and is often where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Montpellier 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 Montpellier

Five airports are worth discussing for a trip to Montpellier and the Languedoc coast. Montpellier itself is the answer for most programmes, and the other four earn their place when the aircraft is very large, the hour is unusual or the programme sits at the edge of the region.

Four things to settle before a Montpellier landing:

Border, passport and the road to the coast

The first landing in the Schengen area is where the formalities happen. At Montpellier they are the easy part: customs and immigration are listed until eleven at night local time, which leaves room for a late dinner in town before an evening departure home, and outside those hours the airport accepts a non-scheduled flight with 7 hours of notice. We send the details with the flight plan and confirm the clearance time with the handler. After clearance, travel inside France and onward in Schengen is free of passport control in the ordinary course, although a temporary border check can be introduced at short notice, so carry the passports. 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 the Languedoc

Montpellier is a university city of about 310,000 people with some 70,000 students, and it has the look of one: a lively old centre, outdoor terraces and a tram network of five lines. Its university dates from the thirteenth century, and the Faculty of Medicine, in a fourteenth-century monastery beside the cathedral of Saint-Pierre, is the oldest medical school still in operation. The Jardin des Plantes, founded in the sixteenth century, is the oldest botanical garden in France and lies a short walk from both. The Place de la Comédie is the focus of the city, with the Three Graces fountain and the Italian-style Opéra Comédie of the nineteenth century, and from it the Écusson, the old centre named for its shield-like shape, spreads out in narrow streets. At the western end the Promenade du Peyrou has an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, the eighteenth-century Château d'Eau and the Saint-Clément aqueduct, with a seventeenth-century triumphal arch at its entrance. Eastwards the town changes character. Ricardo Bofill laid out Antigone as a one-kilometre pedestrian axis of columned buildings running to the river. On the Lez stand the town hall by Jean Nouvel and François Fontès and the Arbre Blanc, a white tower of 193 balconies by Sou Fujimoto, and Zaha Hadid's Pierresvives houses the departmental archives and library. Odysseum, also in the east of the city, is a different thing: a leisure and shopping centre with an aquarium, a planetarium, a cinema and an ice rink, which helps on a wet afternoon with children.

The times below are from the centre of Montpellier.

The coast is where most private clients spend their time. La Grande-Motte was built from scratch within about fifteen years under the state's Mission Racine, to a master plan by Jean Balladur, who borrowed from pre-Columbian pyramids, and the harbour and the long beaches are easy to reach from the airport. Le Grau-du-Roi, next to the Camargue, has 18 km of sand and the Espiguette lighthouse and dunes, while Cap d'Agde is among the largest marinas on the French Mediterranean, with about 3,100 mooring rings, and has a large naturist village on its eastern side, so tell the driver which part of the resort you want. The Camargue is a delta of over 930 square kilometres, home to the white Camargue horses ridden by the local herdsmen, to bulls raised on the marshes and to greater flamingos on the brine ponds. Aigues-Mortes, at its edge, has about 1,650 m of ramparts begun by Louis IX and completed under his son in the thirteenth century, and the Tour de Constance. Louis IX left from here for two crusades. Sète, called the Venice of Languedoc, was the birthplace of Georges Brassens and of the poet Paul Valéry, who is buried in the sea cemetery above the harbour, and its biggest water-jousting tournament is held around 25 August. Inland, the Cévennes rise beyond the Pic Saint-Loup, a UNESCO-listed landscape of Mediterranean farming and grazing country with a national park and Mont Aigoual at 1,567 m. Carcassonne, in the other direction, is a medieval citadel with two walls and 52 towers, a UNESCO site, about an hour and a half by road or train.

Wine is the other reason to come. Pic Saint-Loup, about 25 to 30 km north of the city, is red wine country led by Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre, and the Terrasses du Larzac, around Saint-Saturnin-de-Lucian, Montpeyroux and Aniane along the foot of the Larzac plateau, is an appellation for reds in which Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre together make up at least 60 per cent of the blend. Saint-Chinian, about 20 km west of Béziers, has schist soils in the north and clay and limestone in the south and makes red, rosé and white. Near the Thau lagoon the white Picpoul de Pinet, made only from the Piquepoul blanc grape, is high in acidity and made for seafood. The lagoon, 21 km long and 8 km wide, has about 750 producers working 2,750 oyster tables and some 13,000 tonnes of oysters a year, sold as Bouzigues oysters, and Bouzigues, on the northern shore, is where the tasting tables stand by the water.

Flying to Montpellier with a dog or a cat

A pet is the part of a Languedoc trip that needs a plan, and the flight itself is the easy bit: the animal sits in the cabin with you, never in a hold, and on a sector of an hour and a half most settle down and sleep. The date on the health certificate is where owners go 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 Montpellier calendar: festivals in early summer, the beaches in August

The year in Montpellier has two peaks and a long, calm shoulder between them. Early summer belongs to dance and music, August to the sea, and winter to rugby and quiet restaurants. Knowing which week you want matters more than choosing an aircraft.

Ways to bring the Montpellier price down

• Move the dates by a few days where you can. The days after a festival closes, and the weeks of May and September, are calmer than the weekends of July and August;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits in Nice, Lyon or Toulouse takes less positioning than one coming from Britain, and on a sector of this length positioning is a meaningful part of the bill;
• Look at the other airports, but be realistic. On the same light jet from Biggin Hill, the sector to Nîmes is about £50 cheaper than Montpellier, Béziers about £100 dearer, Marseille about £350 dearer and Perpignan about £450 dearer, so the choice should follow the programme and the weather, not the price.

Types of flights

Montpellier produces a different mix from the Alpine or the Italian destinations we cover. It is a university and festival city with a coast on one side, a wine country on the other and a good deal of sailing in between.

• Festival and culture weekends, from the dance and classical music programmes of June and July to the film festival in October;
• Beach and villa holidays on the coast from La Grande-Motte to Cap d'Agde, typically from the south of England and concentrated in July and August;
• Wine trips to Pic Saint-Loup, the Terrasses du Larzac and Saint-Chinian, often combined with oysters on the Thau lagoon;
• Sailing parties joining a boat in one of the marinas of the coast, with kit bags in the hold and a transfer straight to the quay;
• Rugby weekends built around a home match of Montpellier Hérault Rugby in the Top 14 season;
• Business and medical trips, a morning in town and a lunch by the sea, plus onward hops to Nice, Lyon or Paris.

The day trip is the one to look at closely. Land at about twenty-five to ten, leave by nine in the evening and you are back on the British side the same night, with eleven hours on the ground between. The aerodrome is listed as open until 22:00 local time and customs until 23:00, though we confirm the closing time with the handler because the airport adjusts its hours to the airline schedule. 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. Montpellier has no single event that creates them every year, so they come from the weekly rhythm of a coast and a festival city, and it helps to know what produces them.

Because the corridor to the Languedoc 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 Montpellier match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

On this coast a helicopter is a tool for the edges of a trip. The roads are good and the distances short, and the places where rotary flight changes the day are the Camargue, the string of harbours along the sea and the link with a jet that landed somewhere else. Sightseeing flights operate from an aerodrome at Montpellier, with loops that run from about 8 minutes over the Salins du Midi, Aigues-Mortes and La Grande-Motte to 30 minutes over the Camargue with its bulls, horses and flamingos and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 45 minutes along the coast to Sète and the oyster beds of the Thau lagoon, and an hour that adds the Pic Saint-Loup hinterland and the Hérault gorges. The airport itself has a helipad and helicopter stands, although arrivals and departures from the stands are not allowed at night.

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

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. 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

Montpellier 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 Montpellier