Private Jet Durban to Krasnoyarsk

Durban to Krasnoyarsk covers 6,048 nautical miles, running north from the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa across the length of east Africa, the Arabian peninsula and the Russian steppe into central Siberia. This is a sector for an ultra-long-range aircraft, and a Gulfstream G650ER or a Global 7500 will fly it nonstop with reserves intact, cruising initially in the mid-forties and stepping towards 51,000 feet as the aircraft lightens, where the fuel burn is lowest and the ride most settled. Across roughly eleven and a half hours the sleeping arrangements and low cabin altitude of these types matter a great deal, and both carry the baggage volume that longer Siberian stays demand. Departures are made from King Shaka International Airport, north of Durban and the newest of the major international fields of South Africa, with a long runway, twenty-four hour operation and no curfew, which allows a night departure and a daytime arrival in Siberia. The arrival is at Yemelyanovo International Airport, some twenty-seven kilometres from Krasnoyarsk. The city is the administrative capital of Krasnoyarsk Krai, a territory reaching from the Sayan mountains to the Arctic coast, and the Yenisei that runs through it carries more water north than any other Russian river. The Stolby pillars, columns of weathered syenite standing in larch taiga just beyond the southern suburbs, remain the defining landscape of the region and lie within an hour of the centre. The route suits mining, shipping and commodity executives with interests across southern Africa and Russia, and private travellers for whom two scheduled connections and more than twenty hours in transit are not a workable proposition.