Private jet charter
In short
London to Nice is 580 nautical miles and takes under two hours in a light jet, which makes it one of the most-flown private routes in Europe. Every aircraft class can do it non-stop, so the choice is about cabin and cost rather than capability — and a light jet is genuinely enough for four people.
Indicative prices start around $10,000–$25,000 on the smallest suitable aircraft, and the full range for every class that can fly the leg is below.
01What it costs
Every class below can fly London to Nice non-stop. Prices include crew, fuel, ground handling at both airports and our commission, and exclude VAT, de-icing and peak-period surcharges.
| Aircraft | Passengers | Flight time | Indicative price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turbopropsking air 350i, pilatus pc 12 | 6–9 | 2 h 40 min | $10,000–$25,000 |
| Very light jetsembraer phenom 100, cessna citation m2 | 4–6 | 2 h 5 min | $10,500–$24,000 |
| Light jetsembraer phenom 300e, cessna citation cj3 | 6–8 | 2 h | $11,500–$26,000 |
| Midsize jetscessna citation xls, hawker 900xp | 7–9 | 1 h 55 min | $14,500–$32,000 |
| Super-midsize jetsbombardier challenger 350, embraer praetor 600 | 8–10 | 1 h 50 min | $17,500–$37,000 |
| Heavy jetsbombardier challenger 650, gulfstream g450 | 10–14 | 1 h 45 min | $22,000–$45,000 |
| Ultra-long-range jetsgulfstream g650er, bombardier global 7500 | 12–16 | 1 h 45 min | $30,000–$61,000 |
| VIP airlinersairbus acj319, boeing bbj | 18–50 | 1 h 50 min | $46,000–$100,000 |
02Before you pay
We have no completed flights to point at and no reviews to show you, so instead here is the thing itself: the shape of the reply this route produces, and the arithmetic behind the band above. Both are generated from the same data as every other figure on this page.
Specimen reply — not a live quote
LTN → NCE
What comes back on Telegram, usually inside 15 minutes.
All in, nothing to add
$10,000–$25,000
There is never a second invoice. VAT, de-icing and peak surcharges are shown separately when they apply, before you agree to anything.
How that number is reached
Computed at build time from the airport coordinates in our airports table and the rate bands in our aircraft table, by the same functions that produce every other figure on this site. The result is deliberately a band and not a fare: the largest single cost driver is where the aircraft happens to be that week, and a broker who quotes you one number before checking is guessing at it.
03The aircraft
The price table answers what the leg costs. This answers what you are sitting in for the duration — which on a sector of this length is usually the question that decides the booking. Cabin height is the line that matters most: below roughly six feet you spend the flight seated.
| Class | Cabin height | Cabin length | Baggage | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turboprops | 4.8 ft | 16.7 ft | 55 cu ft | Seated only |
| Very light jets | 4.8 ft | 11 ft | 50 cu ft | Seated only |
| Light jets | 4.9 ft | 17.2 ft | 74 cu ft | Seated only |
| Midsize jets | 5.7 ft | 18.6 ft | 90 cu ft | Seated only |
| Super-midsize jets | 6 ft | 25.2 ft | 106 cu ft | Yes |
| Heavy jets | 6.1 ft | 28.6 ft | 115 cu ft | Yes |
| Ultra-long-range jets | 6.2 ft | 44.5 ft | 175 cu ft | Yes |
| VIP airliners | 7.2 ft | 78.9 ft | 900 cu ft | Yes |
04The line
The bands on this page are all-in for the aircraft rather than a headline rate with extras bolted on afterwards. Here is exactly where the line falls, so that the quote you receive contains no surprises.
05Demand
The busiest leisure corridor in European business aviation, and the one where empty legs appear most often precisely because so many aircraft are repositioning around it. Summer weekends are the peak; the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix each compress a season’s demand into a few days.
06Timing
A February midweek flight can be a third of the price of the same aircraft on a Friday in July. If your dates can move at all, this is the route where that flexibility is worth the most money.
07On the ground
Nice is the busiest private-jet airport in Europe in summer, and between late May and August slots and parking must be secured days ahead rather than hours. Helicopter transfer to Monaco leaves from the same apron and takes six minutes, which is worth arranging with the flight rather than on arrival. On the London end, Farnborough is quicker for passengers heading south and west; Luton suits the north and the City.
Departure
EGGW · LTN · runway 7,087 ft
The busiest business-aviation field in the UK and the default London arrival for heavy jets. Parking is genuinely scarce during Wimbledon, Ascot and the Formula 1 weekend.
Arrival
LFMN · NCE · runway 9,678 ft
The busiest private-jet destination in Europe in summer. Between late May and August slots and parking must be secured days ahead, and helicopter transfer to Monaco is a six-minute hop from the same apron.
08Verify, do not trust
Once we name the operator flying you, you can confirm its audit status and the aircraft’s registration without asking us anything. Here is where, and here is what we commit to in the meantime.
The audits
Confirms whether an operator holds an ARGUS Gold, Gold Plus or Platinum rating, and when it was last audited. It says nothing about price or availability.
Lists operators that have passed a Wingman audit. An operator absent from it is not necessarily unsafe — plenty of good operators carry ARGUS or IS-BAO instead — but an operator claiming Wingman status should appear here.
The same directory at the higher standard, which adds recurrent crew and aircraft checks.
IBAC publishes the standard and its three stages but does not run a public lookup, so IS-BAO registration is evidenced by the operator’s certificate rather than by a search. Ask for it; a registered operator will send it without hesitating.
The aircraft registers
N — United States
Confirms that a US-registered tail number exists, its make and model, its year and its registered owner. If the aircraft offered to you does not appear, stop.
G — United Kingdom
The United Kingdom civil aircraft register: type, year, registered owner and operator.
EI — Ireland
The Irish register, which carries a large share of European-based business aircraft.
M — Isle of Man
A register used almost exclusively by privately owned business aircraft.
VP-C — Cayman Islands
Another common register for corporate aircraft, particularly larger types.
These are other people’s services and we do not control them. Every link was opened and confirmed on . If one of them has moved since, tell us and we will fix it — and in the meantime, ask us for the operator’s certificate directly.
While you are deciding
Nothing is charged before the aircraft is confirmed.
You receive the operating carrier’s legal name, its AOC number and the aircraft registration in writing before any invoice or wallet address is issued. If those three things are not in front of you, you have not been asked to pay yet.
One commission, inside the price you were quoted.
Our margin is already in the number you agreed to. There is no second invoice, no booking fee added at the end, and no separate charge for arranging the flight. If the total moves after you have accepted it, the reason is a change you asked for.
If the operator cancels, you choose the remedy — not us.
Aircraft go technical and operators occasionally fail. When that happens before departure you are offered a replacement aircraft on equivalent terms or a full refund, and the choice between them is yours. We do not get to decide that a substitute was good enough.
These form part of our terms of business. If any of them changes, the change is dated there rather than made quietly here.
09Get a real number
The bands above are estimates. A quote is a firm price for a specific aircraft from a named operator, and it usually comes back within 15 minutes. Nothing is charged until you have the tail number in writing.
10Questions
A broker is on duty · 24/7
Route, date, number of people. That is enough to start — a broker comes back with real aircraft and a real price, usually within 15 minutes, at any hour. If you would rather write it out, use the form.