Biggin Hill to Chambery by private jet takes about 1 h 23 over 765 km. Chambery has one paved runway of 2,020 m at the south end of Lac du Bourget, which makes the aircraft a calculation on a winter morning rather than an assumption — Grenoble and Geneva are named as alternates in advance.
REQUEST A QUOTEThis page is about the London end. Chambery itself — the resorts it serves, the drive up, the helicopter, the Saturday problem — is covered in full on our London to Chambery page, and we would rather point you there than repeat it. What changes when you leave from Biggin Hill is the drive to the aircraft and, on a busy winter Saturday, the aircraft you can get.
Chambery's paved runway is 2,020 m. On a 765 km sector that is not a range question — anything we would send has the legs. It is a runway-performance question, and in the Alps it has a seasonal edge to it: a contaminated runway on a snowy January morning is not the same runway as a dry one in June.
In practice this means the type is confirmed for your date rather than assumed, and that the honest answer on some winter mornings is Grenoble or Geneva with a longer drive. We would rather tell you that when you book than on the morning.
The grass strip alongside, 700 m, is for light aviation and has nothing to do with a jet. It appears in airport listings and confuses people, so we name it and set it aside.
One reason only: the drive. Biggin Hill sits on the south-east edge of London, so for anyone coming from the City, Kent or Surrey it removes the crossing of London that Luton and Farnborough require on a Saturday morning in the season.
That is the whole argument, and it is worth exactly as much as your postcode makes it worth. If the aircraft that suits your party is sitting at Luton or Farnborough, we will say so and let you weigh the drive against the type. On a ski Saturday, the aircraft usually wins that argument.
Light and midsize is the ordinary answer on this sector. Hold volume decides more often than seats do — skis, boots and boards take the space that four people do not.
Light jet with a hold that copes with ski bags. The usual first suggestion for four to six.
Midsize cabin with stand-up height and a short-field reputation that suits Chambery.
Midsize, for a larger party. Runway performance checked for the date, as with everything here.
Cabin dimensions and range per type are on the aircraft pages.
We do not publish a price for this route. On Alpine sectors the single biggest number is not the distance but the date: a changeover Saturday in February and a Tuesday in May are different markets for the same 765 km, because on the Saturday every aircraft in northern Europe is already committed.
Send the dates and the number of passengers, with an idea of the luggage, and you will have real options with real numbers, normally within 30 minutes. The operations desk is on duty 24/7.
Tell us your dates, how many of you there are and what the luggage looks like. On Alpine sectors the bags decide the aircraft more often than the seats do.
All published routes are listed on the route index.