Charter a private jet to Paris: Fashion Week, the art fairs, the grandest tables in Europe. Fly on your schedule, skip every line.
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Golden Triangle palace; Le Cinq holds 3 Michelin stars. Jeff Leatham's famous floral displays; the grand-hotel benchmark.
Place Vendôme, opened 1898; Hemingway famously "liberated" its bar in 1944; Coco Chanel lived here for decades. The mythology hotel.
Faubourg Saint-Honoré; Épicure holds 3 stars; rooftop pool; 1,200m² private garden; a resident cat. The most French of the palaces.
Avenue Montaigne; red awnings and geranium balconies; Dior spa; Eiffel-facing Haute Couture suites. Fashion week's hotel.
Rue de Rivoli facing the Tuileries; Dalí kept his ocelot here; Alain Ducasse's restaurant holds 2 stars. The art world's palace.
Place de la Concorde; 18th-century landmark; Karl Lagerfeld-designed suites. Heritage and design landmark in one.
The tables worth flying for.
3 stars, Arnaud Donckele; the sauce-driven tasting menu. Why famous: Paris' most lavish modern three-star.
3 stars, Christian Le Squer. Why famous: the grandest three-star room in Paris.
3 stars, Alain Passard; vegetable-led cooking from his own farms. Why famous: the most personal cooking in Paris.
3 stars, Arnaud Faye; garden-to-table classic. Why famous: the timeless special-occasion three-star.
2 stars; the artichoke and black-truffle soup. Why famous: the Savoy name; a Paris institution.
3 stars, Kei Kobayashi; French-Japanese precision. Why famous: the first Japanese chef to win three stars in France.
The landmarks worth landing for.
The iron lady, and the summit views over the city. Why visit: Paris begins here.
The world's most visited museum, from the Mona Lisa to the Egyptian wing. Why visit: the collection is inexhaustible.
The Impressionists in a Beaux-Arts railway station. Why visit: Paris' most beautiful museum room.
The restored cathedral on the Île de la Cité. Why visit: the historic heart of Paris.
The events worth timing your trip around.
The September-October edition: the women's ready-to-wear collections for the following spring. The autumn edition is the busiest; book slots at Le Bourget early.
Fly to this event →Over 200 galleries at the Grand Palais, October 23-25, plus the city-wide evening auctions. Autumn art week: the collector class flies in for the fair and the auctions.
Fly to this event →The March edition: the women's ready-to-wear collections, one of the two biggest weeks of the fashion year. Buyers, press, designers and celebrities; Le Bourget handles the Paris fashion traffic.
Fly to this event →The spring modern and contemporary art fair at the Grand Palais each April. The spring art-week anchor, with collector traffic distinct from the autumn fairs.
Fly to this event →July 14: the military parade on the Champs-Elysees and the Eiffel Tower fireworks. A mid-July Paris break pegged to the fireworks: family and celebration travel.
Fly to this event →Airport: Paris Le Bourget (LBG), Europe's busiest business aviation airport, dedicated to private jets.
Alternates: Paris Orly (ORY); Charles de Gaulle (CDG) for larger aircraft.
Aircraft fit: All types; ultra-long-range jets nonstop from anywhere in the world.
Notes: Le Bourget coordinates slots; demand spikes during the fashion weeks.
About 25 minutes by car to the 8th arrondissement.
Le Bourget: it exists for exactly this.
Early. Aircraft and slots tighten for both the March and September editions.
France is in the Schengen area. US, Canadian and UK visitors enter visa-free for up to 90 days.
Yes. Pet-friendly aircraft are available on request; the EU pet passport or equivalent health certificate covers the paperwork.
Tell us when. We handle the aircraft, the slots,
and the 8th arrondissement.