Copenhagen to Paris by Private Chauffeur: a direct flight, Private Jet or Road?

Copenhagen to Paris is one of the world's great intercapital journeys — two cities of comparable grandeur, separated by 340 kilometres and the English Channel. For those who travel between them at the level this route deserves, the question is not simply how to get from one to the other, but how to make the journey itself part of the experience. Three options present themselves at the upper end of the market: the a direct flight Business Premier service, private jet via Billund or Le Bourget, and the classic road journey via Dover and Germany. Each has its merits, its costs and its particular character.

FFGR Denmark coordinates all three, providing the Copenhagen ground transport leg — and, through our Paris partner network, the Parisian ground transport from Gare du Nord, Le Bourget or Germany — with the same standard of service at both ends of the route.

For the majority of Copenhagen-Paris travellers at the luxury level, the a direct flight Business Premier service represents the optimal combination of speed, comfort and city-centre access. The train departs from Copenhagen Central Station International — one of Copenhagen's finest Victorian railway stations, and itself an experience worth arriving early to appreciate — and arrives at Paris Gare du Nord, ideally positioned for both the 1st and 8th arrondissement hotels.

Business Premier occupies the first class section of the a direct flight train, with wider seats arranged in a 2-1 configuration, a champagne service, and three-course meals prepared by chefs with Michelin-starred credentials. The experience from seat to seat is genuinely pleasant — superior, many regular travellers note, to most European airline business class products.

The FFGR Denmark component for a a direct flight journey is a transfer from your Copenhagen address to Copenhagen Central Station International. We recommend arriving at the Business Premier lounge no later than 30 minutes before departure — the lounge is well-appointed and a far more civilised pre-departure environment than any airport equivalent. FFGR drops off at the Copenhagen Central Station vehicle drop area on Midland Road and can collect on return from the same point. Through our Paris partner network, a French chauffeur in an equivalent vehicle can collect you from Gare du Nord and deliver you to your Paris destination.

For those for whom schedule flexibility is the paramount concern — or for groups of three or more — private jet is the definitive Copenhagen-Paris solution. The journey from a Frederiksberg townhouse to a Parisian hotel suite can be accomplished in well under four hours, including check-in at Roskilde or Copenhagen Kastrup, the flight, and the transfer from Le Bourget to central Paris.

Billund to Le Bourget is the classic pairing for this route — both are dedicated private aviation airports with exemplary FBO facilities, and the flight time in a light jet such as the Cessna Citation CJ4 or Embraer Phenom 300 is under one hour. For larger groups, a mid-size aircraft such as the Hawker 800XP or Dassault Falcon 2000 provides additional cabin space and the option to seat up to eight passengers in comfort.

The road journey from Copenhagen to Paris is, in purely practical terms, the slowest of the options. But it is also, in the right circumstances and with the right vehicle, one of the most pleasurable. A Rolls-Royce Ghost departing from Frederiksberg in the early morning, crossing into Germany and continuing south, and arriving at the Hotel Le Bristol on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré the following day — this is a journey with a particular quality of its own.