Private jet charter in St. Moritz

Ask a London broker for a jet to St. Moritz and the first question that comes back is which airport you mean, because the resort at 1,800 metres has no runway of its own. Private Jets UK settles that before it writes a price. 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. The usual answer is Samedan, ten minutes down the valley, for light and midsize jets with briefed crews and an arrival in daylight. The other answer is Zurich, about an hour away by helicopter or three hours by road, and it is the right one for large cabins, late landings and the week of the Davos forum. This page looks at the trip from the resort's side: the hotels, the lake, the lifts, the passes and the weeks of the year that fill up.

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 St. Moritz depends on many factors, such as the model of the business jet, the number of passengers, departure and destination airports, type of flight, duration of parking, additional services, etc. Therefore, we calculate the price of each order individually taking into account your wishes. You can use an online calculator to get an instant charter quote. Please indicate your real contact details to get the final calculation.

You can calculate the cost of your flight in several ways:

• using an online calculator on the website (however, it shows only the approximate price);
• via Messenger (WhatsApp or Telegram);
• by landline or cell phone;
• via e-mail (jets@private-jets.co.uk).

Please note that the above-mentioned price is indicative only. It is calculated on this basis: a departure from Biggin Hill, a Cessna Citation CJ3+ landing at Samedan, the airfield for St. Moritz, 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 St. Moritz?

The flight is the short part of the journey. From Biggin Hill or London City a light jet takes 1 hour 35 minutes to Samedan, or 1 hour 25 minutes if it lands at Zurich, and the clocks in Switzerland are an hour ahead of Britain. What takes the time is the last stretch to the hotel: ten minutes from Samedan, about an hour from Zurich by helicopter, about three hours by road. The table gives both gateways for every British field we use, with the aircraft that sets the price.

Prices for the private jet flights to St. Moritz

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first by the Samedan figure. The Zurich column prices the same aircraft landing there, with the helicopter or the cars for the last stretch quoted on top. The weeks of the snow polo, the horse racing, Christmas and New Year sit above all of these figures.

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 St. Moritz

A departure from the resort starts at a gateway, and the choice of gateway decides the aircraft. The turboprop hops run to the big airports, where a larger jet or a scheduled connection is waiting, and a few light-jet legs go on to the coast and home. Typical one-way prices from Samedan:

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 St. Moritz:

This is a small part of what is available. Only a limited number of operators and crews know the Samedan approach, so many aircraft for the Engadin are positioned from Zurich, from northern Italy or from the south of France, and a quote may name one of those fields as its starting point. That is often where the better price comes from.

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to St. Moritz 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 St. Moritz

Five airports serve the resort in practice, and the useful way to rank them is by the time from the runway to the hotel and not by the length of the flight. Samedan is first when the aircraft, the crew and the daylight agree. The others come in on the days they do not, or when the trip is part of a longer route.

Four points settle most arrivals at the resort:

Border, passport and customs

Switzerland is not in the EU customs union, so a flight from Britain is dealt with twice: as a Schengen border for the passengers and as a Swiss customs border for the goods. The federal rules require flights from abroad to arrive at, or stop over at, an airport with customs, and Samedan offers customs services during its operating hours. For a party with anything to declare, we confirm the customs position of the day with the handler before the booking. When the daylight, the paperwork or the aircraft do not fit, the first landing is made at Zurich and the party continues by helicopter, car or a short hop. On the way home, the General Aviation Report for Britain is filed between 48 hours and 2 hours before departure, and our handler files it with the crew.

From the lake to the lifts

St. Moritz sits at about 1,800 m and is home to under five thousand people all year. It has hosted the Winter Olympics twice and the Alpine World Ski Championships several times. The town has two parts that matter to a visitor: St. Moritz Dorf, the upper village of the grand hotels, shops and the funicular station, and St. Moritz Bad at the lake end, the site of the heliport. The railway station is the terminus of the Albula and Bernina lines of the Rhaetian Railway, and both the Bernina Express and the Glacier Express stop there. The distances that matter to a private client are these:

The resort has more than one valley behind it. Pontresina, at 1,805 m, lies up the valley on the Bernina line and has the Grand Hotel Kronenhof and the approaches to the Morteratsch glacier. The Diavolezza cable car, which begins at a station on the same line, takes visitors to a terrace with views of Piz Bernina and the Pers glacier, and in winter it opens a ski area that is known for steep runs and for snow that often lasts into May. Zuoz, at 1,716 m, is a traditional Engadin village further down the valley beyond Samedan, with a boarding school, a small family ski area and a golf course in summer. A day on the Bernina Express, which reaches 2,253 m at the Ospizio Bernina station on its way to Tirano in Italy, is a standard excursion, while the Glacier Express to Zermatt takes about eight hours and crosses the Landwasser Viaduct on the way. From the air the same peaks are a short flight from Samedan, with a guide where the landing is off the ski area.

The hotels and how the guests arrive

The grand hotels of St. Moritz are one reason for the resort's reputation, and they are a practical matter for a charter booking. Badrutt's Palace has 112 rooms and 43 suites, and the Kulm Hotel, where the Badrutt family's hospitality in the town began, is a short distance away. The Suvretta House, on Via Chasellas, hosts the classic car concours in July. Several of these hotels close between seasons: the Kulm, for instance, usually opens for a summer season from mid-June to the end of August and a winter season from early December to the end of March, and we do not plan a flight before we know the house is open.

For arrivals, the Kulm's own guidance describes a private flight from Milan Malpensa to Samedan and then a train or a transfer into the town, and a car can be arranged through the hotel or by us. What matters to the booking is that the car, the aircraft and the hotel work to the same arrival time and the same handler's name, because the hotel's driver is looking for a particular building.

Flying to St. Moritz with a dog or a cat

A dog is a normal guest in an Alpine resort in winter, and the cabin of a private jet is the easy part: the animal sits beside you and does not go in the hold. The difficulty lies on the ground. Switzerland is outside the EU and runs its own import rules, and the airport at which the animal first enters the country is something we agree in writing before the aircraft is booked.

What the Swiss veterinary office asks for when a pet arrives from Britain:

• An ISO microchip, fitted before the rabies vaccination;
• A rabies vaccination given immediately after the microchip, from 12 weeks of age, which becomes valid 21 days later;
• Where the animal has no Swiss or EU pet passport, as on a first trip, an official veterinary certificate from the country of departure, with its validity checked against the Swiss rule on the day;
• Presentation of the animal at the red customs exit. The Swiss guidance names Basel, Geneva and Zurich for accompanied animals arriving by air, so for a dog or a cat we plan the first landing at Zurich unless Samedan is confirmed in writing;
• No dogs with docked ears or tails, which Switzerland does not allow in;
• For dogs on the way home, a tapeworm treatment from a vet between 24 and 120 hours before landing in Britain, recorded with the product, the date and the time. Cats do not need it.

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 them in writing before the flight.

The St. Moritz year: winter first, jazz and cars in July

The Engadin runs on a long winter and a handful of events, most of which happen on the frozen lake. The calendar below gives the usual months, and the exact dates are checked each season, because an event week changes both the price and the availability of aircraft, rooms and cars.

Ways to bring the St. Moritz price down

• Move the dates off Christmas, New Year and the polo and racing weekends. Mid-January after the holidays and the weeks around the Skimarathon are calmer;
• Ask where the aircraft is based. A jet that is already at Zurich, Milan or Innsbruck needs less positioning than one coming from Britain, and on a sector of this length positioning is a real part of the bill;
• Take the light jet unless the luggage says otherwise. Four people and four bags do not need a midsize, and the money saved pays for the car and the hotel;
• Leave the Sunday return flexible. A window of two or three days on the way out of the valley gives us room to find an aircraft that is going your way.

Types of flights

The mix of trips to St. Moritz is narrower than for a city, because almost everyone goes to one small resort for one of a few reasons:

• Winter holidays, from a long weekend to a fortnight, with skis, boots and a car and driver waiting at the field;
• Event weekends around the snow polo, the White Turf and the Skimarathon, with a fixed date and a hotel booked months ahead;
• Summer stays in July and August, for the jazz festival, the classic cars, walking and the Bernina railway;
• Parties of eight and more, who land at Zurich and continue by helicopter or road;
• Heliskiing and mountain flights from Samedan for guests who are already in the resort;
• Onward legs from the Engadin to Milan, the coast and Paris, flown in daylight.

The weekend deserves a closer look. Leave London on a Friday morning and you are in the resort before lunch, with an afternoon on the lake. A Sunday return means the aircraft and crew wait for you, and the waiting is paid for, but it comes out cheaper than two separate one-way charters. In winter the Sunday departure has to clear the field before dusk, and on this route we quote the day both ways so the difference is visible.

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, sold at a fraction of the normal price. The Engadin has a strong seasonal pattern, so empty legs appear in waves, and it helps to know what creates them.

The Alpine corridor is thinner than the busiest London routes, so a client who can name a few days has a far better chance than one who needs a particular Sunday. The usual price of that is that the operator owns the date and the hour, and a leg can disappear when the original booking moves. Whatever is free is listed on our empty legs page, and we flag a St. Moritz match the day an operator releases it.

Helicopter charter

In St. Moritz a helicopter earns its fee on the stretches a car cannot do quickly: the leg from Zurich for a larger aircraft, the hop to a villa or a hotel without a runway, and the mountains themselves. Two operators have their base at the Samedan airfield, at Plazza Aviatica 4: Heli Bernina and Swiss Helicopter. Between them they sell round flights over the Bernina massif, heliskiing from the St. Moritz-Bad heliport or from Samedan, and taxi and VIP flights at home and abroad, such as to Davos, Milan or Venice.

The machines used on this ground are the Airbus H125 for the mountains, the wider H130 for scenic flights and villa transfers, the H135 and the Bell 429 where a twin is wanted, and larger helicopters for bigger 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 St. Moritz 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 St. Moritz

The London fields give the shortest sectors to the Engadin and Scotland sits at the long end; the price table higher up covers thirteen of the 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

St. Moritz charters from the booking notes: six typical trips

What the corridor looks like once a quote becomes 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 St. Moritz