Farnborough to Chambery is 796 km and about 1 h 25. The sector is short; the runway at the end of it is 2,020 metres, and on this route that number decides the aircraft before anything else does.
REQUEST A QUOTEThe closest of the Alpine fields we publish from Farnborough, and the one where a short runway in a valley does the deciding. Grenoble and Geneva sit near enough to be genuine alternates, which is what makes the plan comfortable rather than tight.
Distance is the great-circle figure between airport coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset. The flight time is an estimate from a model fitted to the block times this website publishes itself — not a measured time.
Chambery lies in a valley with a runway of 2,020 metres. For a light jet that is unremarkable. For a heavier aircraft on a wet day in February it is the figure the whole plan turns on, which is why we agree the type before the date on this route and not after.
The valley also decides the weather. Low cloud closes the approach more often here than at the larger Alpine fields, and when it does the answer is Grenoble at 2,020 m or Geneva with 3,900 m — both close enough that a diversion means a longer drive rather than a lost day.
For Courchevel, Meribel and the Trois Vallees this is the nearest field we publish, and the drive from it is the shortest in this group.
796 km asks nothing of any aircraft. The 2,020 m runway asks a great deal of some, and that is the whole of the planning on this sector.
Cabin dimensions and range per type are on the aircraft pages.
No published price. In the transfer weeks of the ski season the cost of this 796 km is set by what is positioned in the Alps that Saturday, not by the distance, and a printed figure would be wrong in the only weeks most people fly it.
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Tell us the dates, the party and the resort. On this route we will also tell you which aircraft the runway allows, and why that is the first question and not the last.