Private Jet St Tropez to New Dehli

La Mole, the small airfield serving St Tropez, is an appropriately understated departure point for a sector that covers roughly 3,440 nautical miles to New Delhi. St Tropez trades in a particular kind of low-key glamour, all fishing-village charm on the surface with considerable wealth quietly underneath, and the airfield’s limited runway shapes which aircraft can operate from it before the longer sector to India even begins. A super-mid-size jet such as the Gulfstream G280, sized appropriately for La Mole’s constraints while still carrying the range for the crossing, cruises up to 45,000 feet and completes the sector in around seven and a half hours. Arrival into Indira Gandhi International Airport delivers passengers into a capital with little in common architecturally or culturally with St Tropez, yet increasingly linked to it through the same circles of European luxury retail, hospitality and yacht ownership that also draw wealthy Indian travellers to the Riviera each summer. This sector suits owners and charterers who split their year between a St Tropez base in high season and business or family commitments in India the rest of the time, offering a direct route that avoids the need to first reposition through Nice or Paris before the long leg east, keeping the whole journey under private control from the moment the aircraft leaves La Mole’s short runway. La Mole’s proximity to the town itself, only a short drive from the harbour and its famous quayside cafes, means the transition from Riviera afternoon to onward flight happens quickly, without the longer transfer times typical of some of the coast’s busier airports further along the coastline.