Jersey Airport. A board meeting island, an hour from London.
Trust companies, fund administrators and family office counsel are all within half an hour of the runway. The point of flying private here is the day trip, and the day trip only works if the ground moves as tightly as the air does.
The airport
Jersey at a glance
- CodesJER / EGJJIn the parish of St Peter, about four and a half miles west north west of St Helier.
- Runway08/26, 1,706 metresAsphalt. Comfortable for turboprops and light to midsize jets, and worth confirming for anything larger.
- OperatorPorts of JerseyWhich runs the island's airport and harbours together.
- Executive handlingA single executive agentGama Aviation handles visiting aircraft over three tonnes, with its own VIP lounge and crew facilities. Lighter aircraft go to the Aero Club.
- Out of hoursBy arrangementThe airport can be opened outside its normal hours, requested through your handling agent.
- BordersCommon Travel AreaJersey is a Crown Dependency, outside the UK and the EU. Identity checks on flights to and from the UK and Ireland are limited. Full passport checks apply elsewhere.
- PaperworkA General Declaration before arrivalFiled by the crew for customs, immigration and the States of Jersey Police. Your operator or handler does it.
- The alternativeGuernsey, a short hop north westA shorter runway and a different island. See Guernsey.
Jersey is roughly nine miles by five. Almost nothing on the island is more than half an hour from the airport, so the schedule risk is the flight and the formalities, not the driving.
Journey times
From Jersey Airport by road
| To | Quiet roads | Busy periods |
|---|---|---|
| St Helier and the finance district | 15 to 25 minutes | 25 to 40 minutes |
| St Aubin | 10 to 20 minutes | 15 to 30 minutes |
| St Brelade's Bay and the south west hotels | 10 to 20 minutes | 15 to 25 minutes |
| Gorey and the east coast | 25 to 35 minutes | 30 to 45 minutes |
| Elizabeth Terminal, for the ferries | 15 to 25 minutes | 25 to 40 minutes |
| St Ouen and the north west coast | 15 to 25 minutes | 20 to 30 minutes |
Realistic ranges, not promises. Two island facts govern these times. The maximum speed limit anywhere in Jersey is 40 mph, with 20 and 30 mph in built up areas and 15 mph on Green Lanes, so nothing is ever driven quickly. And St Helier at nine in the morning and half past five is a genuine town centre queue, which is exactly when a board meeting day starts and finishes.
Why clients choose it
The day trip that has to land twice
Most private movements into Jersey are working days rather than holidays. A trustee meeting, a fund board, a bank visit, a property completion, a family office reviewing structures with its advisers: all of them are two or three addresses within a few square miles, and all of them end with a flight that wants to leave before the island quietens down. Scheduled services make that day possible only in theory, because the first flight in and the last flight out remove the two hours the meeting actually needed.
The second group is families with houses on the island or crossing to Guernsey, Sark or the French coast, and the third is simply people who want a short sector with no terminal. Whichever it is, the ground plan is the same: a car at the aircraft door, an agreed order of stops, and a chauffeur who stays with you all day rather than being rebooked between meetings.
On the day
Where the car waits and how we meet you
Private arrivals are handled by the island's executive handling agent, with its own lounge away from the main terminal. We speak to the handler for your movement, agree where the car should stand and when, and have it in place before the aircraft is on the ground. Where the airport permits it for that flight, the car can be brought to the aircraft. Permission is the airport's to give, so we confirm what has been approved rather than promise it in advance.
For a scheduled arrival your chauffeur meets you in the terminal with a name board. Because the island is small, we plan a working day differently here than we would in London: rather than separate journeys, the car is usually held between meetings, which costs less waiting and removes the risk of a car being twenty minutes away when a meeting finishes early. See hourly and as directed for how that works.
What we handle
Details that make an island day work
Tight schedules, narrow lanes and a departure that cannot slip.
- Flight tracking on both legs, with the return timed backwards from the crew's latest useful departure
- Coordination with the executive handling agent, including ramp access where it is permitted
- A held car between meetings rather than separate bookings, so an early finish is not a wait
- Addresses checked in advance, because several finance houses share an entrance and a setting down point that a map does not show
- Onward connections to the Elizabeth Terminal ferries and to Guernsey planned as part of the same day
Coverage
Our cars, and cars we arrange
Odyssey owns its cars and employs its chauffeurs in London and Manchester. In the Channel Islands we work with operators we know and have used before, to our brief and under our booking, so you deal with one team and one number at both ends of the sector. If you are running the same pattern several times a year, an account is simpler than a quote each time: see open an account and family offices. If you need the aircraft as well, we arrange that: see private jet charter and on demand charter.
Onward
Where Jersey passengers go next
Other airports
Aircraft that suit the field
Who we do this for
Request a quote
Tell us the day
Flight details, passengers, and the addresses in the order you expect to visit them. If you would rather the car stayed with you between meetings, say so and we will quote it that way. Nothing is booked or charged online.
Prefer to talk? +44 2030 048300 or WhatsApp, at any hour.
Questions people ask
About Jersey transfers
Can the car come to the aircraft?
Where the airport and the handling agent permit it for your movement. Otherwise the car is at the executive lounge door. We confirm before you land.
Do we need passports?
Jersey is in the Common Travel Area, so identity checks on flights to and from the UK and Ireland are limited rather than full border controls. Carry photographic identification, and a passport for anything that is not a UK or Irish sector. Your operator will confirm what your particular flight needs.
How long does it take to cross the island?
Rarely more than half an hour, because Jersey is about nine miles by five. The speed limit never exceeds 40 mph, so the drive is short but never fast.
Can the same car do Guernsey the next morning?
Not the same car, because it is a separate island. We will arrange the matching car and chauffeur at Guernsey and keep the whole trip on one booking and one contact.
Can you arrange the aircraft as well?
Yes. See private jet charter.
