All direct flights to France from the UK & Ireland

Flight summary

There is an ever increasing range of cheap flights to France available from most UK international airports. Flights to France can roughly be divided into three main categories - flights to Paris, flights to other major cities such as Toulouse and Nice, and flights to rural destinations popular with Brits such as the Dordogne and Languedoc.

Flights to Paris

See our flights to Paris page for further details about the best ways of getting to the French capital, including comparisons for getting to the centre of Paris from the three major international airports which serve the city. Increasing numbers of passengers are also choosing to travel from London to Paris with Eurostar. Additionally, Eurostar offer connecting services to many other French cities, either via Paris or Lille.

Other major French cities

The availability of flights to major French cities such as Nice, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux varies greatly from one UK airport to the next. Lyon and Toulouse have a particularly good range of links from outside London, with Toulouse in particular having flights from Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester, largely due to the city's aerospace industry.

During the ski season regular charter flights are available to Toulouse and Lyon, as well as a number of no-frills airline options. If you are unable to find direct flights to any French cities from your local airport, then regular connecting shuttle flights are available from Paris, although because Air France have a virtual monopoly on these routes, prices are never particularly attractive.

Regional France

A growing range of flights to the French regions have become available from an increasing number of regional airports as well as London. This market was originally led by no-frills giant Ryanair, although Flybe now offers more routes from the UK to France than any other airline. Destinations such as Perpignan, Bergerac, Nantes and La Rochelle have all seen rapid expansion over the past decade.

Flights to France with onward train connections

Another key point to consider when searching for flights to France is that the effective distance between many major cities has been shrunk massively due to the development of the high-speed TGV train network. The fastest links are down the north to south spine between Paris and Marseille, via Lyon and Avignon. Other TGV routes radiating out from Paris operate to Rennes and onwards into Brittany, to Tours and the Atlantic region, northwards to Lille and easy to Strasbourg.