Air Charter Monaco arranges flights for bachelor and bachelorette groups traveling from the United States to Monaco and the French Riviera. Most of these trips happen in the summer, and many groups split their time between Monaco, Cannes and Saint-Tropez.
Bringing everyone over together
The hardest part of planning one of these trips is getting a group of friends from different cities to the same place on the same day. With a charter, everyone meets at one US airport, boards the same aircraft and lands in France together. If part of the group lives elsewhere, we can arrange a second aircraft to bring them over on the same day.
Each flight from the United States lands in France, so everyone in the group needs a valid passport for French border control at the airport. Your advisor can help with any questions before you leave.
Passengers, bags and the right aircraft
Please give us a firm passenger count as early as you can, because we choose the aircraft around that number. If the group grows after booking, it may no longer fit the aircraft you reserved. Luggage matters too. A week on the Riviera means more bags than a weekend away, and the baggage hold on a smaller jet fills up quickly.
Part 135 is the FAA’s set of rules for on-demand, for-hire charter. Once the group runs past nineteen passengers, the trip calls for an airliner-size aircraft and no longer falls under FAR Part 135. Those flights operate under FAR Part 121 or a foreign equivalent, which generally carries stricter crew and operating requirements than both Part 91 and Part 135.
Landing on the Riviera
Monaco has no runway, so most groups land at Nice and travel the last part of the way by car or by helicopter. If the party starts in Saint-Tropez, ask your advisor about the airport there, because it has special conditions. Tell us about any catering or drinks you would like for the crossing and we will pass the request to the operator. Our heavy jets page shows the larger cabins that suit a group.
Vetting Behind Every Trip
Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:
- FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs)
- Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates.
- Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft.
- Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.
Monaco-Specific Patterns We Plan Around
Monaco has no airport runway, so private jets land at Nice Côte d’Azur, about ten nautical miles from the Monaco Heliport, or at Cannes-Mandelieu for smaller jets, and the last part of the trip is by car or by helicopter. Nice is a busy airport with slots all year, and the Grand Prix in early June, the Monaco Yacht Show in September and the summer season fill the Riviera’s airports early, so those dates book first. Every flight from the United States lands in France, so passengers clear French border control on arrival, each needs a valid passport, and Monaco adds no border formalities of its own. From New York or Boston, Nice is roughly 3,500 nautical miles away, which is why a long-range jet is usually the aircraft that makes the crossing without a fuel stop.
Contact
For a quote on a charter to Monaco, send the trip through our contact page or call an advisor at 1-888-987-5387. Our safety page sets out how we review operators and crews, and the aircraft gallery covers every category we arrange. We are also a member of the National Business Aviation Association.