Nice to London Biggin Hill is 1,008 km and about 1 h 41 in the air. You leave from the business aviation terminal beside Terminal 2 and land on the south-eastern rim of London rather than on the far side of it. The part of this trip that goes wrong is not the flying: it is the twenty kilometres between Monaco and the aircraft, and going home those twenty kilometres have a deadline attached to them. We publish no price for this pairing and the section below says why. A written quotation follows inside 30 minutes; +357 95 119759 answers at any hour.
Off the coast and into Kent in under two hours, without the main halls at either end. Tell us where on the Riviera the morning starts and what hour you need to be in London, and we will build the day backwards from both. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs.
REQUEST A QUOTEThis is the longest of the Mediterranean and Alpine sectors we publish out of Biggin Hill, flown the other way round, and the interesting half of it happens before the door closes. Most people flying out of Nice privately did not spend the night in Nice: they were in Monaco, Cap Ferrat, Antibes or Saint-Tropez, and the journey that decides whether the day works is the one that brings them to the aircraft. Arriving, a slow road costs you an hour. Departing, it costs you a slot. That is the whole asymmetry of this pairing, and it is why the first question we ask is not which airport but where you are sleeping the night before and at what hour you must be in London.
On the way down, the helicopter to Monaco is the thing that finishes the journey. On the way home it is the thing that starts it, and that changes how it has to be booked.
Monaco is twenty kilometres north-east of Nice. The standard answer in both directions is the helicopter: Monacair runs the link between the Monaco heliport and the airport. Southbound you take it when you land, and if the aircraft is late the helicopter waits. Northbound the order is reversed – the helicopter feeds a departure, and anything that delays it eats into a slot that belongs to somebody else the moment you lose it.
By road it is the same twenty kilometres, and in July that sentence means something entirely different. This is why we ask for the pickup address and the hour rather than only the airport. If the answer is Monaco, the helicopter belongs inside this quotation and inside this timetable, not in a separate conversation you have with somebody else afterwards.
One departure and a genuine choice of arrival. In London the decision is made by a postcode rather than by a map, and Biggin Hill is the answer for a particular half of the city.
| Field | Codes | Role on this route | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nice Cote d’Azur | NCE / LFMN | departure | Seven kilometres west of the city centre, with two runways of 2,570 m and 2,960 m – nothing we would place on this sector is limited by either. Private departures use the business aviation terminal beside Terminal 2: 1,500 square metres, open since 2010, with the operators’ own operations rooms and lounges. You do not pass through the main halls. Nice handled a shade over fifteen million passengers and nearly 173,000 aircraft movements in 2025, and in season that separate building is the difference between leaving and leaving in a crowd. |
| London Biggin Hill | BQH / EGKB | arrival | On the south-eastern rim of the capital, which is the entire argument for it: for the City, for Kent and for Surrey it is a short run in rather than a crossing of London. In the air the difference between the three London fields is minutes; on the ground at the end of the evening it is not. |
| London Luton | LTN / EGGW | alternative arrival | About fifty kilometres north of central London and the field with the deepest choice of business aircraft on any given day. That depth is sometimes the argument that settles the aeroplane, and when it is we would rather say so than let a postcode choose the cabin. |
| Farnborough | FAB / EGLF | alternative arrival | South-west of London, business aviation only and no scheduled traffic at all, so ground time is as short as ground time gets. The right answer for Surrey, Hampshire and the Thames Valley. |
| Monaco heliport | — | the feeder, not the flight | Twenty kilometres from the airport, with Monacair flying the link. Not an alternative departure for the jet but, for a great many parties on this route, the first leg of the journey and the one with the tightest timing. |
Runway lengths, the business terminal and the Nice traffic figures are as published on our Biggin Hill to Nice page. Relative sector lengths to the other London fields are described qualitatively rather than measured. Whether Monacair can fly on your morning depends on weather, and we confirm it rather than assume it.
Just over a thousand kilometres, two long runways behind you, no performance question anywhere in it. The choice is about the cabin, and about how many of you arrived at the airport by helicopter rather than by car.
Midsize, stand-up cabin, and the ordinary answer for six to eight on this sector. The one we propose first unless something about the party argues otherwise.
Cessna Citation XLS+ ›A light jet for a smaller party, and a hold that copes with summer luggage. The cheaper answer when the number matters more than the cabin height.
Embraer Phenom 300 ›Super-midsize, for a larger group leaving together and staying together. Worth naming when the party outgrows a midsize cabin rather than when the sector demands it.
Bombardier Challenger 350 ›Cabin dimensions and range per type are on the aircraft pages.
There is no figure on this page, in either direction, and putting one here would be easy rather than honest.
On the Cote d’Azur the season does to prices what the ski weeks do in the Alps. A July Friday and a November Tuesday are different markets for the same 1,008 km, and a single number covering both would be a number describing neither. We publish none for this pairing, and we do not intend to reverse one out of an hourly rate and present it as a price.
What we will tell you is where the money actually sits on this direction. Nice is not short of business aircraft in season, but in season it is short of the hours everybody wants, and the departure slot is the item that behaves like a scarce good. Ask whether the quotation you are holding includes the repositioning, and ask what happens to it if the morning slips.
Tell us the dates, the number of passengers and the address you are leaving from — if that address is Monaco, the helicopter belongs in the same quotation rather than in a separate conversation afterwards. Real options with real numbers normally within 30 minutes; the operations desk is staffed 24/7 on +357 95 119759.
GET A FIRM PRICEA price on this route means a written quotation from Diamond Executive Aero Services against your own dates. Nothing on this page is an offer.
The coast has one loud season and one quiet one, and the difference between them shows up in the hour you can get rather than in the aeroplane you can get.
Through the summer Nice is working at a volume that is hard to convey on a page: a shade over fifteen million passengers and close to 173,000 aircraft movements across 2025. The aircraft is rarely the scarce item on a route like this. The useful morning hours are. Name the hour you need to be in London and let us work backwards from it, including the helicopter or the road from wherever you are staying.
Out of season the same 1,008 km is an unremarkable sector and short notice is realistic. That is also when it is worth asking about a repositioning flight, because aircraft move along this corridor in both directions all year and an empty one going north is exactly the direction you are travelling. Ask us what is on the board rather than what usually is.
Biggin Hill is a base as much as a destination. If the coast was the middle of a trip rather than the end of it, these are the sectors worth knowing about.
The Alpine sector from the same field, and the one most often booked in the same week as a Riviera leg.
Biggin Hill to Geneva ›South again across the Alps, published in its own right with its own airport notes at the Italian end.
Biggin Hill to Milan ›The Savoie field, and the jet arrival for the Trois Vallees. A winter sector with a valley airport at the far end.
Biggin Hill to Chambery ›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.