Paris to Nice is 694 km southbound and about 1 h 17 in the air, Paris Le Bourget to Nice Cote d'Azur, normally on a light jet. From €8 300 for the whole aircraft, one way. Send the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows inside 30 minutes; the operations desk is staffed at every hour on +357 95 119759.
The run down to the Cote d'Azur, and on a Friday afternoon in summer the busier of the two directions by a distance. Nothing on the sector crosses a border, so there is no customs or immigration process waiting at the far end - the ground time on arrival is the shortest of any route we publish.
REQUEST A QUOTEBetween them these two fields carry more business-aviation traffic than any other pair on this site: Le Bourget recorded 55,751 movements in 2023 and Nice 37,425. WingX-Advance put Paris-Nice fourth among European city pairs on January-June 2013 data, at 67 flights a month southbound against 68 the other way, and the habit has not changed since. The whole sector sits inside France, which makes this the only route we publish with no border formality at either end - and on the arrival that is worth real minutes of the day.
The departure is not a decision - Le Bourget is where Paris business aviation leaves from. The arrival is, because for a good number of passengers on this sector the address at the end is on the Croisette rather than in Nice.
| Airport | Codes | Great-circle | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | departure | Where the sector starts, and the field every distance and time on this page is measured from. 55,751 movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023) make it the busiest business-aviation airport in Europe, and it is laid out throughout for short ground times. The week to watch is the Paris Air Show, when its own ramp rather than anything in the air becomes the constraint. |
| Nice Cote d'Azur | NCE / LFMN | 694 km | Where the sector ends, and the default arrival. 37,425 movements in 2023, a business terminal kept separate from the scheduled ones, and the helicopter link to Monaco leaving from the field itself. Nothing on this flight crosses a border, so there is no immigration or customs process on landing and you are off the aircraft and moving. Across May and the summer weekends what is scarce at this end is the slot and the ground handling rather than the aeroplane. |
| Cannes Mandelieu | CEQ / LFMD | 695 km | The same flight in every practical sense - 695 km against Nice's 694, one kilometre - and it sets you down 24 km closer to the Croisette, at the point in the year when those 24 km cost the most time. It takes business jets up to a certain size, so give us the type and the party and we will say whether it works. In festival week, ask before you assume Nice. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Movement counts: EBAA 2023 via Private Jet Card Comparisons, 4 June 2024.
At 694 km this is a light-jet sector with a great deal in hand, so range never enters the conversation and the hold usually does. For most of the year, on a flight of an hour and a quarter, cabin size is a preference. Around the middle of May it stops being one.
Six to eight passengers and a 2.27 cubic metre hold, the largest of the three, which is why it is the first type we put forward for a party heading south for a stay. It is also the commonest aircraft on this run and the easiest to place at Le Bourget at short notice.
See the Embraer Phenom 300 ›Six to seven passengers, and the sensible answer for a small party travelling light. Over an hour and a quarter the difference between this cabin and a wider one is an hour and a quarter of your life; the difference in the quotation lasts rather longer.
See the Cessna Citation CJ2+ ›Six to seven passengers and 2.07 cubic metres of hold, quiet and unhurried. It fits the trip this page describes - going down for several days with proper luggage - better than it fits a same-day return.
See the Citation Bravo ›All three types are on our own fleet pages. A party of eight or more goes south on a Citation XLS+ or a Hawker 800XP, which fly the same sector; in Cannes week the larger hold is usually the reason to step up rather than the seat count.
From €8 300 one way. Indicative starting price for this route, rounded down. The date, the aircraft actually available and airport fees move it — tell us your dates and we confirm within 30 minutes.
Brokers publish reference figures in both directions on this pairing, which is unusual, and on the southbound leg it happens to be in your favour: every one of the three types is listed cheaper going this way.
| Reference | Aircraft | Indicative price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole aircraft, very light | Citation Mustang, 4 seats | approx. 8,300 EUR | a broker route page, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Whole aircraft, light | Learjet 75, 8 seats | approx. 13,400 EUR | a broker route page, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Whole aircraft, midsize | Hawker 800, 8 seats | approx. 16,000 EUR | a broker route page, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Return direction | Nice to Paris, same three types | approx. 8,500 / 13,800 / 16,500 EUR | brokers, retrieved 23.08.2026. A few hundred euros dearer northbound on every type - positioning, not distance |
| Hourly rate, light jet | Europe | 4,600 - 7,300 EUR per hour | Broker published range, undated, retrieved 23.08.2026 |
| Empty leg | varies | brokers publish discounts of 50-75% | broker price pages, all retrieved 23.08.2026 |
The Riviera is the sharpest seasonal market in European business aviation, and southbound is the direction the season pulls. Two weeks in May are the ones to plan the year around.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| May | The Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix fall within a fortnight of each other, and what they generate at this end of the sector is arrivals. WingX counted 315 business-jet arrivals into Nice during the 2024 Grand Prix alone, against 367 in 2019. | Six to eight weeks. What runs out at the far end is the Nice slot and the Riviera handling, not the aircraft - and this is the fortnight to ask about Cannes Mandelieu in the same call. |
| June to September | The Mediterranean season, with the flow running south. EUROCONTROL put Nice at the top of the European business-aviation airport table in August and September 2021. | Two to three weeks for a weekend. Friday afternoon out of Le Bourget is the pinch point, and it is a pinch point on this direction specifically. |
| March to June and September to November | Underneath the leisure traffic there is a steady corporate flow - this is France's internal business corridor as much as it is a holiday route. | A week is usually enough for a midweek day return, which is the commonest shape this sector is bought in outside the season. |
| November to March | Quiet on the coast. Aircraft reposition between Paris, Nice and Geneva constantly, and a share of those legs run south with nobody in the cabin. | Ask about empty legs if your dates can move at all. |
Route ranking: WingX-Advance, January-June 2013, via a broker. Monaco Grand Prix arrivals: WingX via BlueSky Business Aviation News, issue 750, 30 May 2024. Airport ranking: EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #19, 19 October 2021. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
Nice is where the aircraft stops, but for most parties on this sector it is not where the day ends.
The standard Riviera transfer and the reason many people fly into Nice at all. Our own published helicopter rates start at 750 EUR per hour on a Eurocopter AS350.
Helicopter charter ›Cannes Mandelieu is 695 km from Le Bourget against Nice's 694 km - the same flight - and puts you 24 km closer to the Croisette.
Ask about Cannes ›Nice is 257 km from Milan Linate and 361 km from Olbia. Both are under an hour on the same aircraft, and both are routes we publish.
Nice to Olbia ›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.