Private Jet Luanda to Krasnoyarsk

Luanda to Krasnoyarsk is a 5,501 nautical mile sector running from the Atlantic coast of Angola across central Africa, the eastern Mediterranean and the Russian interior to central Siberia. The distance calls for an ultra-long-range aircraft, and a Gulfstream G650ER or a Global 7500 will complete it nonstop with reserves in hand. Both types climb quickly out of the tropics and cruise in the mid-forties before stepping towards 51,000 feet as the fuel load lightens, an altitude that keeps them clear of the convective weather that builds over equatorial Africa in the afternoon and gives the smoothest ride available on a flight of some ten and a half hours. Departures are made from Quatro de Fevereiro Luanda International Airport, the long established gateway to Angola, where private handling is separated from the scheduled operation and where a night departure is often preferable given the daytime heat and its effect on take-off performance. Arrivals are at Yemelyanovo International Airport, twenty-seven kilometres north-west of Krasnoyarsk. The city is the capital of Krasnoyarsk Krai and the commercial hub for a region whose oil, nickel and timber interests extend well inside the Arctic Circle. Krasnoyarsk lies on both banks of the Yenisei, roughly four thousand kilometres east of Moscow, and keeps UTC+7, which places it three hours ahead of Luanda for most of the year. The Stolby pillars, tall columns of weathered syenite standing in larch taiga on the southern edge of the city, are the best known landscape of the region. The route suits oil, gas and mining executives moving between Angolan and Siberian assets, where scheduled travel would demand two connections and well over twenty hours.