Private jet charter in Nantes

A light jet leaves the London fields and is on the ground at Nantes in about an hour, in time to watch a twelve-metre mechanical elephant walk along the river before lunch. The city is only the start of the programme, because the Atlantic beaches, the Vendée, the Muscadet vineyards and the shipyards of Saint-Nazaire all lie within an hour or two of the runway, and Private Jets UK builds the charter around the whole itinerary. 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. Nantes Atlantique has a 2,853 m runway with a Category III approach on one end, handling is compulsory, and a night curfew from midnight to six decides what can leave after a late dinner. Customs is listed on two hours' notice before arrival, which is lighter than the 24 to 48 hours asked at the fields around it.

 

 

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 Nantes 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 Nantes?

1 hour from Biggin Hill in a light jet, 1 hour 40 minutes from Edinburgh, and one hour of clock difference to allow for on arrival, because France keeps Central European time. At 236 to 555 nautical miles from the British fields we use, Nantes is a light-jet sector from the south of England, the Midlands and Wales and a midsize one from the north and Scotland. The table gives the sector from each field.

 

 

 

Prices for the private jet flights to Nantes

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Nantes Atlantique. The classical music festival at the turn of January and February and the summer weekends on the coast 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 £5,300 on the light jet. It is a feature of how a one-way charter is built, because the aircraft has to return to its base, and it means that from the south of England you should choose the departure field for convenience and not for the mileage. Luton and Birmingham in a Phenom 300E come to £5,700, and the longer sectors from the north climb steadily, to £9,250 from Newcastle and £10,150 from Edinburgh in a Citation XLS+.

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 Nantes

From Nantes the useful sectors are short. La Rochelle and Rennes are about half an hour away in a turboprop, Bordeaux and Jersey take under an hour, and Paris and the Riviera are the sectors where a jet earns its place. 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 Nantes:

 

 

 

This is a small part of what is available. Nantes is a large airline airport rather than a business jet base, so a quote may name Paris, Bordeaux or Rennes as the point where the aircraft is positioned from. That is normal for a field of this kind, and it is frequently where the better price comes from.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Nantes 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 in Nantes

Six airfields are worth discussing for a trip to the lower Loire and the Atlantic coast, and the facts below come from the French Aeronautical Information Publication, the AIP. Which one is right depends on the programme and on the customs position of the flight, not on the aircraft. Notre-Dame-des-Landes, about 30 km north-west of the city, has no airport: the planned replacement for Nantes Atlantique was not built, so Nantes Atlantique is the airport for Nantes.

 

Four things to settle before a Nantes landing:

 

 

Border, passport and the customs booking

The first landing in the Schengen area is where the formalities happen. At Nantes the AIP lists police and immigration as available round the clock and customs as intermittent, with notice of two hours before the estimated arrival. That is lighter than at the smaller fields around it, where the notice is 24 hours or more at Angers, Rennes and Saint-Nazaire and 48 hours at La Rochelle. We still send the crew and passenger details with the handler's booking, so that nobody learns of the arrival at the door, and we keep the customs message in the same thread as the slot request. 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 castle and the cathedral

Nantes was the main residence of the Dukes of Brittany in the fifteenth century, and their castle is still the first stop for most visitors. The Château des ducs de Bretagne dates from the thirteenth century and was rebuilt in the fifteenth, and a walk along its ramparts of about 500 m looks down on the courtyards and the town. Inside, the Museum of the History of Nantes fills 32 rooms with more than 850 objects and does not look away from the city's part in the transatlantic slave trade, and the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery is on the same trail. The city also gave its name to the Edict of Nantes, signed here at the end of the sixteenth century to give Protestants legal standing, and the marriage of Anne of Brittany to Charles VIII began the union of the duchy with the French crown.

The cathedral of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul was started in the fifteenth century and not finished until the nineteenth, a building site of more than four centuries, and it holds the tomb of Duke Francis II and his wife Marguerite de Foix, made in the early sixteenth century. Three more places repay an afternoon. The Passage Pommeraye, a shopping arcade of the mid-nineteenth century, joins two streets with a drop of 9.40 m, takes up the difference with a flight of steps and is covered in Renaissance-style sculpture; it appears in several films by Jacques Demy. The Jardin des Plantes, a botanical garden laid out in the early nineteenth century, keeps a magnolia of about 200 years and the national camellia collection. Le Lieu Unique, the arts centre in the former LU biscuit factory, uses the last tower of the works as its landmark and puts on theatre, dance, circus, music and exhibitions.

Nantes is a green city. Green space covers about 41 percent of its area, and the city was named European Green Capital. The climate is oceanic: winters average about 6 degrees and summers about 20, with around 1,870 hours of sunshine and 820 mm of rain a year, spread over some 120 wet days. Pack for a shower in any month.

 

The Machines de l'Île, the Voyage à Nantes and Jules Verne

The Machines de l'Île occupy the old covered shipyard halls on the Île de Nantes, where ships were built until the yards closed in the late twentieth century. The Grand Éléphant is 12 m high and 8 m wide, weighs about 45 tonnes of wood and steel and walks with up to 49 passengers aboard on an outing of about 45 minutes, and it carries a water cannon that can sprinkle riders and onlookers. The Carrousel des Mondes Marins, nearly 25 m tall and 20 m across, has three levels and 35 moving sea creatures, which visitors board and help to operate. The Galerie des Machines explains how they are built, with sketches, models and films. Opening hours and the elephant's walks change with the season, so we check them before the day is planned.

The Voyage à Nantes ties the city together with a green line painted on the pavement, more than 20 km long and linking more than 70 stops: artworks, monuments, museums and cultural venues. It is there all year and following it is free, although some stops charge admission, and walking all of it takes one to two days. The summer edition in July and August is the dense one, and the same art trail continues down the river, because the Estuaire collection of works lies along the Loire between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire. The Nantes Pass offers about 50 free activities and is valid from 24 hours to 7 days.

Jules Verne was born in Nantes, on the Île Feydeau, which was an island in the Loire until the channels were filled in. His mother came from a family of navigators and shipowners, the family later moved to the Quai Jean-Bart, and the story goes that the boy signed on as a cabin boy aboard a three-master, the Coralie, only to be fetched back at Paimboeuf by his father. Historians think the tale is exaggerated. The Musée Jules Verne faces the Carrousel across the Loire.

 

The Erdre, Muscadet and the Loire châteaux

The Erdre is a river of 97 km that runs down from Anjou past Nort-sur-Erdre and Sucé-sur-Erdre and joins the Loire in Nantes, passing under the Rue Henri IV through a canal tunnel and coming out near the main railway station. Boat trips run on the river, and the Japanese garden on the Île de Versailles stands in the water of the Erdre. It is the quiet side of the city, and a good hour for a client who has done the castle.

The vineyards begin at the southern edge of the city. Muscadet is made from the Melon de Bourgogne grape, and the best-known appellation, Sèvre et Maine, covers 23 villages and roughly 8,200 hectares. A wine sold sur lie has rested on its lees through a full winter and is not bottled before the third week of March, and oysters are the classic pairing. Gros Plant du Pays Nantais is the other white of the area, made from Folle blanche: light, dry and lively, with an iodised note, and grown from Ancenis to Pornic. At Clisson the Sèvre Nantaise meets the Moine below the ruins of a château whose oldest parts date from the thirteenth century; trains from Nantes run every 30 minutes and take about 16 minutes. The Château de Goulaine, near Nantes, has been held by the Goulaine family for over a thousand years, keeps tropical butterflies flying free in an aviary and makes its own wine, Muscadet among them.

Upstream, the Loire valley of the great châteaux begins. Angers is 88 km and about an hour from Nantes by road, and its castle overhangs the Maine behind a curtain wall of about 660 m with 17 towers, each 18 m across, and houses the Apocalypse Tapestry, commissioned in the fourteenth century. Downstream, the river widens into an estuary of docks, marsh and shipyards, and the châteaux give way to the art trail of the Estuaire. A client who wants both the wine and a castle can do Clisson and Goulaine in a day; Angers is a day of its own.

 

The coast and the Vendée: La Baule, Pornic, Noirmoutier and the Puy du Fou

La Baule has one of the longest beaches in Europe, and the resort was remodelled in the early twentieth century on the Deauville model, with casinos, luxury hotels and sports facilities. Le Pouliguen, next door on the border with La Baule, is the older fishing port, with three basins and a mix of fishing and leisure boats, and the coastal path of the Côte Sauvage starts there. Pornic is a small harbour town with a castle built between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, a marina of 919 berths, a thalassotherapy centre and one of the first casinos in France. All three are an hour or less from the airport, which suits a Friday arrival and a Sunday departure.

Noirmoutier is a different coast: a low island of salt marshes, dunes and evergreen oak woods, joined to the mainland by a road bridge that replaced the ferry. The older way across is the Passage du Gois, a paved sandbank of 4.5 km that is flooded twice a day by the tide, so the crossing is planned from the tide table and not from the clock. The island celebrates its Bonnotte potato with a festival at the start of the harvest.

The Puy du Fou, in Les Épesses in the Vendée, is the other reason to fly to Nantes. The park is about 90 km and an hour and ten minutes by road from the airport, the park itself describes the airport as about an hour away and runs a shuttle that has to be booked ahead, and it recommends at least two days to see the shows. It is open from spring to early January, with extra openings around Christmas, and has more than 500 hotel rooms with direct access. The night show, the Cinéscénie, runs from June to September, lasts 1 hour 30 minutes and usually starts at 22:30 in July and at 22:00 in August and September. That timing matters to the crew. The show ends near midnight and the road back to the airport takes more than an hour, so a departure the same night is ruled out by the curfew, and the party sleeps on site or in Nantes and flies in the morning.

 

The Folle Journée festival

La Folle Journée, billed as the largest classical music festival in France, runs for five days at the turn of January and February, mainly at the Cité des Congrès, and offers about 300 concerts of 45 minutes each, with some 140,000 tickets on sale. It started as a single day of short concerts and is a good reason to fly in the quietest part of the year.

 

Saint-Nazaire, Airbus and the shipyards: the business side

Nantes is France's second-largest aeronautics hub, and the business traffic is real. The Airbus plant at Bouguenais stands close to the passenger terminal and makes the centre wing box for every Airbus airliner, along with composite parts. About 66 km away by road, Saint-Nazaire has two Airbus sites that assemble, equip and test fuselage sections, and the Beluga freighters fly the finished sections from there to the final assembly lines. The Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in the same town builds cruise liners, the Queen Mary 2 among them. The town also keeps a former German submarine base with a concrete roof 9 m thick, which now houses cafés, a bar and exhibitions, and the French submarine Espadon, moored in the pens, can be toured.

Suppliers, customers and engineers usually fly in for the day. The aircraft lands at Nantes at nine, a car makes the drive to Saint-Nazaire in just under an hour, and the party is back at the airport for a late-afternoon departure while the crew waits. The sites at Nantes, Montoir-de-Bretagne and Saint-Nazaire belong to Airbus Atlantic, the aerostructures company, and visitors to them are asked for an original passport or ID card. Site visits are arranged by the host, so we ask the contact for the entry rules and pass them to the passengers before the day. For a light jet on a weekday, Saint-Nazaire Montoir is an option that saves the drive, but it has no handling agent on the field and customs needs 24 hours' notice, so we compare the two fields for each job.

 

Flying to Nantes with a dog or a cat

For a pet the paperwork is the part of a trip to the Loire 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 about an hour 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 Nantes calendar: festivals, summer and the coast

Nantes works all year, because it is a business city first and a tourist city second, but three things shape the season: the classical music festival at the turn of January and February, the summer art trail and beaches, and the Puy du Fou nights. The rest of the year is quiet by comparison.

 

Ways to bring the Nantes price down

• Choose the day and the season. The summer slot is requested through a coordinator whose desk is listed Monday to Friday, so a Tuesday in May is the cheapest and the simplest, and a Friday in July the opposite;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that already sits in Paris, Bordeaux or Rennes 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. A light jet costs £5,300 from Biggin Hill, and from Luton the step up from a Phenom at £5,700 to a Citation XLS+ at £6,800 adds £1,100, so ask for both figures.

 

Types of flights

Nantes produces a different mix from the Alpine or the Italian destinations we cover, because it is a working city with an aircraft industry, a coast and a theme park within an hour or two.

• Business days to the Airbus plants and the shipyards at Saint-Nazaire, usually out and back on a weekday;
• Festival trips for the Folle Journée in winter;
• Puy du Fou weekends for families, with a night in the park hotels after the Cinéscénie;
• Coastal weekends at La Baule, Pornic and Noirmoutier, mostly from the south of England;
• City breaks built around the castle, the Machines de l'Île and the Voyage à Nantes;
• Wine days in the Muscadet country and a day trip to the Loire châteaux, usually booked with a driver.

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 five in the evening, 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 typically costs less 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. Nantes does not produce them every week, but it does produce them around a few well-known dates, and it helps to know what creates them.

Because the corridor to the Atlantic coast 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 Nantes match the day an operator releases it.

 

 

Helicopter charter

In Nantes a helicopter is a tool for the edges of a trip and not the middle. The city is eleven kilometres from the runway, and the places where rotary flight changes the journey are the coast, the island of Noirmoutier and the Vendée. A helicopter at the airport works through the handler like any other visiting aircraft, and the AIP bars helicopters from two of the small general aviation aprons. We have not confirmed a charter helicopter based at Nantes, so the machine is normally positioned from elsewhere 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 Nantes 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 Nantes

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.

 

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Nantes 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 Nantes