Private Jet Amarillo to Tunis

Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport, in the Texas Panhandle, sends travellers on a 5,066 nautical mile journey to Tunis, a distance well within heavy business jet range. The Gulfstream G550 and Bombardier Global 6000 both complete the nonstop crossing in around nine to ten hours, cruising near 45,000 feet to remain above the bulk of Atlantic weather systems, with cabins built around a private rest area and full galley suited to a flight of this length. The Panhandle’s wide-open ranchland gives way, on arrival, to the dense historic fabric of Tunis, where medina lanes narrow enough for two people to pass wind between mosques, hammams and workshops that have operated continuously since the medieval period. A short drive out of the city reaches Carthage, whose scattered ruins recall its history as a Phoenician trading colony and later a major Roman provincial capital, and the clifftop village of Sidi Bou Said, whose whitewashed, blue-shuttered houses overlook the Gulf of Tunis. The Bardo National Museum, housed in a former Ottoman palace, holds one of the world’s finest collections of Roman mosaics, and travellers extending their stay often add Hammamet or Sousse to the itinerary. This pairing suits Panhandle-based executives and cultural travellers with interests reaching into North Africa, delivered directly without a European stopover along the way. Even a short visit conveys the scale of the city’s history, with Phoenician, Roman, Ottoman and French influences all still legible within the old town walls. The rhythm of daily commerce in the medina, conducted much as it has been for centuries, offers Panhandle travellers a striking contrast to the ranchland they departed from.