No charter jet lifts out of Courchevel. The strip at the altiport measures 537 m, it climbs at 18.6%, once you are committed there is no going around, it works in daylight alone, and the crew has to hold a specific mountain rating. The flight we sell is Chambery to Milan Linate, roughly 40 minutes in a light jet, with about 55 minutes of road above it from Courchevel 1850 – or a turboprop or helicopter off the altiport to meet the jet below. Our floor for the jet leg is €5 800. Written quotation inside half an hour; +357 95 119759 answers at any hour.
Two hundred kilometres as the chart measures it, and one of very few departures in Europe where the runway rather than the passenger list dictates what you fly out in. Before quoting we will tell you which of the two shapes this journey takes for your party.
REQUEST A QUOTEGoing up to the Trois Vallees, the hard part is the landing. Coming away, the hard part is a clock – three of them, in fact, and all three have to agree on the same morning. The altiport works only in daylight, so nothing lifts off it before first light. The jet at Chambery holds a slot at a valley airport that in February is running full. And Linate is slot-controlled and does not work overnight, so your permitted landing hour is fixed as well. Not one of those three is difficult on its own. Booked separately, and booked late, they are precisely how a morning falls apart.
Five fields figure in this trip and they do not substitute for one another. The first is the one everybody asks for and the one no charter jet departs from; the remaining four are the ones that work.
| Field | Code | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courchevel Altiport | CVF / LFLJ | turboprop and helicopter only | A 537 m strip on an 18.6% slope, no go-around, daylight hours only, and a crew holding a mountain rating. Charter jets do not work here in either direction. Departing, the daylight rule is the one that binds: it fixes the earliest hour anything can leave the altiport, and the rest of your morning has to be arranged after it rather than before it. |
| Chambery Savoie | CMF / LFLB | the jet departure we use | Nearest jet-capable field to the Three Valleys, about 55 minutes of road from Courchevel 1850 in ordinary winter conditions. Through the ski weeks its slots, its handling and its parking all tighten at once – and it is parking, more often than aeroplanes, that defeats a late request here. |
| Grenoble Alpes Isere | GNB / LFLS | alternative jet departure | What we turn to when Chambery has no slot or no handling left in the peak weeks. About 1 h 50 of road from the resort, so the cost is road time rather than anything to do with safety – and we will say so in plain terms when it becomes the answer. |
| Geneva | GVA / LSGG | alternative jet departure | The deepest supply of slots and handling anywhere in the region; where Chambery cannot take the aeroplane, Geneva nearly always can. Around 2 h 15 of road, with a frontier to cross on the way. |
| Milan Linate | LIN / LIML | arrival | Nearest major field to the middle of Milan, which is where the time on this route is genuinely recovered. It is slot-controlled and it does not operate overnight, so the hour you may land is agreed rather than assumed. Malpensa MXP / LIMC is the answer where an intercontinental departure follows, or where Linate has nothing at your hour; Bergamo BGY / LIME is the answer where you were heading east of the city in any case. |
The strip length, the gradient, the daylight restriction and the crew rating at Courchevel are published aerodrome facts rather than our own view. Road times are ordinary winter running times and will vary with traffic and conditions on the day. Linate’s slot and overnight arrangements are as set out on our Milan to Olbia page.
Which aeroplane depends entirely on which of the two shapes you take. Leave the mountain from the altiport itself and it will not be a jet. Take the jet and it departs from Chambery, with road or rotor filling the first part of your morning.
The light jet for the Chambery to Linate leg, about 40 minutes aloft for up to seven. Our standard answer on this pairing, and the more forgiving of the two on ski luggage.
Phenom 300 ›The smaller light jet over the same leg, comfortable for four to six with ski bags aboard, and frequently the easier of the two to secure late in the season.
Citation CJ2 ›How you leave Courchevel itself without taking the road, flown down to Chambery, Geneva or Annecy in a matter of minutes. Subject to weather and, on a winter morning, to daylight.
Helicopters ›From €5 800, one way, whole aeroplane, for the jet leg from Chambery to Milan. A floor of our own construction rather than an offer, with the sum printed below it.
Nobody has published a price for this pair of places in a source we would be prepared to reproduce, in either direction. So here is the arithmetic: two hours billed, since a two-hour minimum attaches to anything shorter than that, at €2 900 an hour, the published opening rate for the light-jet cabin (Eurosky, 19.02.2026), rounded down. The Milan to Courchevel page carries the identical figure and must do – the minimum and the cabin class are what build it, and neither is altered by the direction you travel. What it does not cover is anything upstream of Chambery: the road, or the helicopter off the altiport.
A forty-minute sector is the plainest demonstration there is that an hourly rate does not produce a price. Crew duty, landing fees and handling at both ends sit on top of the time aloft, and through the ski weeks so does parking at Chambery – which matters more on a departure than people expect. If the aeroplane could not stay at Chambery overnight, it must be flown in from wherever it did stand in order to collect you, and those two additional sectors are yours. Raise that item specifically on this route, rather than meeting it on the invoice afterwards.
To audit a quotation: brokers publish €4 600 to €7 300 an hour for European light jets (undated, retrieved 2026), an opening figure from €2 900 an hour (19.02.2026) and $3 750 to $4 200 an hour (August 2026), with empty-leg discounts advertised at 50 to 75 per cent. Their numbers, not ours.
GET A FIRM PRICEThose third-party rates appear for comparison alone. None is our price and none is a quotation. The only figure we stand behind is a written one set against your dates.
A ski route with a brief summer afterlife, and nothing gradual about the transition between them.
December to March is the peak. Slots, handling and parking at Chambery all tighten, Saturdays worst of all – which is exactly the morning most parties want to leave on. Book Saturday sectors weeks in advance, or move midweek and pay less for the same aeroplane. Christmas and the February half-term are the two hardest weeks of the year on this pairing: settle those dates early, because a late request gets whatever remains rather than whatever suits. Parking at Chambery runs out during half-term before the aircraft do, and on a departure that is the constraint with teeth.
June to September is the quiet second season – walking, golf, the high passes – when late requests are realistic and the figure behaves itself. April, May, October and November are thin months: some handling and some road services run on reduced hours, so tell us the plan early and we will establish what is genuinely open rather than assume it.
Linate is a city airport rather than a finishing post. These are the sectors most often asked for inside the same itinerary as this one.
The long run north-west, with its own page and its own notes on the English fields. The usual continuation where Milan is a night rather than a destination.
Milan to London ›South-east to Cyprus, with its own notes on cabins and seasons. A frequent second leg where the ski week opened a longer trip.
Milan to Larnaca ›The journey up, on a page of its own – and the one to read first if the outbound is not yet booked. Quoted as a pair, the planning happens once.
Milan to Courchevel ›Tell us your dates and how many of you there are. Your dedicated flight advisor will come back with aircraft options and a firm price.
All published routes are listed on the route index. Also useful: the fleet, current empty legs, jet sharing.