London to Cannes is 1,075 km south-east, about 1 h 46 min in the air, a London business-aviation field to Cannes Mandelieu CEQ, normally on a light / midsize jet. Which aeroplane you are offered is settled against Mandelieu’s own operating limits before the quotation reaches you, not after. Give us the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes; the operations desk is staffed at every hour on +357 95 119759.
South-east to the coast in about 1 h 46. On this leg the aeroplane has to suit the airport it is landing at, which is why we confirm the type with Mandelieu before quoting rather than afterwards. Arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTE1,075 km south-east, and a sector a light or midsize jet covers in one leg without discussion. Two things decide this booking and neither of them is the flying. The first is the arrival field: Cannes Mandelieu is a small coastal airport with operating limits of its own, and the aeroplane has to suit it. The second is the week you have chosen — in the season a departure hour on the Riviera is a scarcer commodity than an aircraft, and it is the return leg rather than this one that runs short of them.
Three fields at the London end and one on the coast, and the two ends pose opposite questions. In London the question is which departure saves the most road time on the morning. At Mandelieu the question is what the airport will accept, and that is settled with the field before your quotation is written rather than after it.
The order matters more than it sounds. A type that suits 1,075 km on paper is not automatically a type the arrival field will take on your date, and finding that out late means changing the aeroplane in the week before you fly. We would rather establish it first and quote second.
| Airport | Codes | Role | What to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Luton | LTN / EGGW | departure | The reference point for every distance and time on this page, and the field with the widest choice of aircraft on a given date. North of the city, and the natural departure if the morning starts north or west of London or anywhere up the M1. |
| Farnborough | FAB / EGLF | departure | Business aviation only, with no scheduled traffic at all, and the shortest road in from the Thames Valley, Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire. Frequently the calmest of the three on a Friday in July. |
| Biggin Hill | BQH / EGKB | departure | South-east of London and the nearest field to the City and to south and east London. Minutes from the other two in the air, and up to an hour from them on the road. |
| Cannes Mandelieu | CEQ / LFMD | 1,075 km from Luton | The arrival, and the reason the aircraft is confirmed before the price rather than after it. We agree the type against the airport and the date first. If the answer for a particular aeroplane is no, the honest alternatives are a different type or a different field on the same coast, and we would rather say so at the quotation stage than at the aircraft steps. |
Airport names, codes and coordinates: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distance calculated great-circle from London Luton. What the arrival field will accept on a given date is confirmed with the airport rather than taken from a published table.
1,075 km sits at the top of the light band and the bottom of the midsize one, which is why the fleet on this sector is mixed. Going out, the choice is usually easier than it is on the way home: the luggage is what you packed rather than what a fortnight on the coast accumulated.
The constraint that applies in both directions is the arrival airport, and it is the reason this page names a class of aeroplane rather than promising a particular one. All three types below fly the sector comfortably. Which of them is offered on your date depends on availability and on what Mandelieu will take, and we confirm that in writing rather than assume it.
The light jet on this pairing and the easiest of the three to place at short notice through the summer. It covers the 1,075 km south-east in a single leg with a small party aboard.
See the Phenom 300 ›A stand-up midsize cabin, and the usual answer for a family going out for a week. Close to two hours in the air is long enough for the extra cabin height to register.
See the Citation XLS+ ›The step up for when it is the luggage rather than the party that will not fit — more hold volume on the same non-stop sector.
See the Hawker 800XP ›All three types are on our own fleet pages, and each is offered on this route subject to what the arrival airport will take on your date. Heavier cabins can be arranged — ask and we will price them. Luggage allowances are on our luggage page.
We publish no starting price for this pairing in either direction, and a figure invented for the page would not survive contact with a booking in August. What we can put in front of you is the published market for the aircraft class — the same references we print on the northbound page, because it is the same sector flown the other way round.
Those are rates for a class of aeroplane, not prices for a route. They are worth having in order to test a quotation and no use at all for building one: multiply any of them by 1 h 46 and you have left out the crew day, the landing and handling at each end, and the cost of getting an aircraft to a London field on your morning in the first place.
Outbound, the date does more to the figure than anything else on this list. A Friday in late July and a Tuesday in March are not the same purchase of the same flight, because in the season the aircraft, the crew and the departure hour are all being competed for by people making the same journey in the same week. Send us the dates and we will quote against them rather than against an average.
| Reference | Aircraft | Published rate | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly rate, Europe | Light / midsize jet | EUR 4,600 – 9,700 per hour | LunaJets, published for Europe, undated |
| Hourly rate, from | Light / midsize jet | EUR 2,900 – 3,500 per hour | Eurosky, retrieved 19.02.2026 |
| Hourly rate | Light / midsize jet | USD 3,750 – 4,600 per hour | Paramount Business Jets, August 2026 |
Outbound, the pressure falls differently than it does on the flight home. People go down to the coast across the whole season and come back inside a few days of it, which makes this the easier half of the pairing to arrange — with two exceptions in May, when the Riviera fills before the summer does.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| May | The festival and the Grand Prix fill the coast before the season proper starts, and the Riviera fields are at their busiest for two separate weeks. Outside those weeks May is an ordinary shoulder month. | Book the two event weeks as you would book August, and ask early. For the rest of the month one to two weeks is usually plenty. |
| June to September | The Mediterranean summer. Outbound traffic is spread across the season rather than compressed into it, which makes the flight down noticeably easier to place than the flight back. | Three to four weeks for a summer weekend. If the return date is already known, ask for both legs at once — it is the homeward leg that will be tight, not this one. |
| October | The season closing. The coast is still open, the fleet begins moving out of the Mediterranean, and quotations soften with it. | One to two weeks, and the best month of the year in which to ask whether an aircraft is repositioning your way. |
| November to April | The quiet half of the year on this pairing: ordinary business and property traffic rather than a season. | Short notice is realistic and the choice of aeroplane is wider. Settle the return leg when you book rather than on the day. |
The seasonal pattern above is the Mediterranean travel year as it falls on this pairing, not a published seasonal index for the city pair. The two May event weeks are the ones named on our London to Nice page.
The flight down is often only the first half of the arrangement. Three things worth settling at the same time rather than afterwards.
On a week on the coast the aeroplane rarely waits. Send the return date with the outbound one and we will price the pair together instead of as two unconnected flights.
Ask for both legs ›The Riviera fills and empties twice a year and the fleet moves with it, which throws off repositioning flights in both directions. The shoulder months are when to ask.
Current empty legs ›The northbound leg is the same 1,075 km and the same 1 h 46, and it is the harder of the two to arrange at the end of August. Its own page explains why.
Cannes to London ›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, luggage limits.