Paris to Courchevel is 508 km and about 1 h 03 of jet time, and the interesting part happens after the jet. Courchevel Altiport is a short, steeply sloping strip with no instrument approach, flown in daylight and acceptable weather by specially qualified crews – in practice by helicopters and short-field types rather than by most business jets. Indicative price from €3 000 one way. Send the dates and we will tell you which combination actually works: +357 95 119759, at any hour.
An hour south-east into the Trois Vallées, and the only route on this website where the aircraft is the easy question and the runway is the hard one. Almost everybody arrives by a jet into a valley field and a helicopter up, and that is not a compromise – it is how the resort is reached. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs, arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTERead honestly, this is two journeys rather than one. The flying half is trivial: 508 km from Le Bourget, about an hour, entirely within France, no border and no permit. The arrival half is the reason the route is asked about at all. Courchevel Altiport is short, steeply sloping and has no instrument approach; it is flown in daylight and in acceptable weather by crews specifically qualified for it, and in practice it is served by helicopters and short-field aircraft rather than by the jet that brought you from Paris.
More than on any other route we publish, the answer here is a combination rather than a single field. The question we will ask you first is not which airport you want but how many of you there are, what the forecast is doing and what time you need to be on the snow.
| Airport | Codes | Role | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | departure | Where the leg starts, and the field every figure on this page is measured from. Wholly given over to business aviation, eight kilometres from the périphérique, with 55,751 movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023) the busiest such airport in Europe. Night movements are restricted, which on a Sunday evening return is worth knowing in advance. |
| Courchevel Altiport | CVF / LFLJ | mountain arrival | Your aircraft and your crew are qualified for it, the weather is co-operating and it is daylight. The resort's own strip, minutes from the pistes, and the reason this route is asked about at all: short, steeply sloping, no instrument approach. In practice it is used by helicopters and short-field types rather than by most jets. |
| Chambéry Savoie | CMF / LFLB | valley jet airport | The nearest business-aviation field of any size to the Trois Vallées, and the commonest jet arrival for parties heading to Courchevel. A helicopter shuttle up takes minutes; the road takes far longer. It has weather days of its own, which is a reason to leave margin rather than a reason to avoid it. |
| Geneva | GVA / LSGG | valley jet airport, larger | The party is large, the aircraft is bigger, or the Savoie fields have closed for weather. Further away and much better supplied – the field that still has an aeroplane on it when the others do not. Geneva to Paris is a route we publish in its own right at 409 km and about 56 minutes. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distances calculated great-circle. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
Five hundred kilometres asks nothing of a jet. What this route asks about is the last fifteen minutes, and that is a different question with a different answer – which is why we quote the combination rather than an aircraft.
A Phenom 300 or a Citation CJ2 into Chambéry is the ordinary shape of this trip. An hour from Paris, then a short transfer up. It is what most parties actually fly, whatever they asked for at the start.
See the fleet ›Minutes rather than an hour of mountain road, and the part of the day people remember. Booked with the jet as one arrangement so that a delay on one leg does not strand you between the two.
Helicopter charter ›Possible when the aircraft, the crew qualification, the daylight and the weather all line up. We will say plainly when they do and, more usefully, when they do not – an altiport is not a runway you improvise with.
See the fleet ›Indicative price from €3 000 for the whole aircraft, one way – the lowest figure on this corridor and, more than on most routes, a floor rather than a forecast. It describes a small aircraft into a valley field on an ordinary day, and the season is anything but ordinary.
Three things move it. The first is the date: a Saturday in February behaves like a different market from a Tuesday in January, because the whole resort changes over on the same day and every aircraft in the Alps is doing the same thing you are. The second is the last leg – a helicopter transfer is a separate aircraft with its own crew and its own price. The third is where the jet goes afterwards: it rarely stays in the mountains, so a return is often much better value than two one-way flights.
Empty legs exist here in quantity, for a mechanical reason: aircraft deliver parties into the Alps on a Saturday and leave empty, then come back empty to collect. If your dates can bend by a day, this is the single best corridor in Europe on which to ask.
GET A FIRM PRICEThe season is December to March and nothing else, which makes this the most concentrated route we publish. Within it the pressure is not spread evenly: Saturdays are the changeover day for the whole Trois Vallées, and the school holidays – French, British and half of Europe's – stack on top of each other in February.
Book as early as you can for the February weekends and for the days around New Year. The binding constraint is rarely the jet: it is helicopter availability, altiport slots and the daylight, and on a short winter day the last of those is not negotiable with anyone.
Weather deserves a sentence of its own. The mountain fields have days when nothing lands, and the honest plan has Geneva in it as a fallback before you need it rather than after. We will build that into the quotation rather than discover it on the morning.
Most of this traffic returns to Paris, but not all of it, and the second leg is easier arranged with the first.
The return is the other half of most bookings on this route, and booking it as one trip usually costs less than two one-way flights – the aircraft and crew stay with you rather than repositioning twice.
Courchevel to Paris ›The larger field an hour away by road and minutes by air, and the fallback that keeps a plan working when the Savoie weather does not. Geneva to Paris is a published route of its own.
Paris to Geneva ›Aircraft leave the mountains empty on a very predictable rhythm. If you can move a day either way, this corridor rewards it more than any other we publish.
Current empty legs ›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.