London to Nice
Private Jet Charter

About 1 hour 35 minutes to 2 hours in the air. The sector is 560 nautical miles from Farnborough to Nice Cote d'Azur. Super-midsize jets are quickest at about an hour thirty-five, light jets nearer two hours, and every class the desk brokers reaches the coast nonstop.

560 nautical miles, about 644 statute miles, between Farnborough and Nice. Nice is an hour ahead of London all year, so an hour and three quarters in the air lands two and three quarter hours later on the local clock. The desk plans about 1.5 hr of block time; the winds over France shift it by a few minutes.

Nice Cote d'Azur, on the coast seven kilometres from the city, with two runways of about 9,711 feet and a business aviation terminal. It serves the whole Riviera: Monaco by a seven-minute helicopter, Cannes by road, and Saint-Tropez by road or a short flight along the coast.

By helicopter, in about seven minutes from the airport, or by road in about 40 minutes outside the rush. The desk books the helicopter with the jet so it is waiting when you land.

Farnborough for most Riviera trips, 35 miles south west of the centre with no slots and a private terminal. Biggin Hill, inside the M25, for its long hours on a late Sunday return from the coast. Luton for the north. London City for a certified light or midsize type near the Square Mile, and each field has its own guide.

A light jet, Citation CJ or Phenom 300 class, for a couple or six on a Riviera weekend is the first quote. A midsize jet, Citation XLS or Hawker 800 class, for a family of eight with a fortnight of summer luggage. A super-midsize jet, Challenger 350 or Gulfstream G280 class, for eight or nine, quickest to the coast.

The aircraft class, whether the trip is two one-way flights or a round trip, handling and parking at Nice, any helicopter transfer, the London field and its slot or permission, and the dates against the May to September peak. We tell you what the quote covers before you book.

Yes. The sector is quoted in both directions. Put Nice as the departure in the form and the desk handles it the same way, with the London slot or permission filed for the arrival.

Yes, it is an international flight. Customs and immigration are cleared at the aircraft at both ends, and the crew checks passports before departure. There is no airline security line.

The Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix, which fall in the same May fortnight, the summer weekends from June to August, and the yacht shows in September. Parking at Nice and aircraft out of London both tighten then.

Usually, yes. During the Film Festival, the Grand Prix and the yacht shows parking is scarce and the aircraft may reposition and return for the pickup, and on those weeks the desk prices the extra leg into the London quote before you book rather than on the ramp.

Outside the summer a few days from London is enough once the London slot or permission is filed. For the May fortnight, the summer weekends and the September yacht shows, fix the dates weeks ahead so the aircraft, the Nice handling and the Monaco helicopter are all held together.