Private Jet Bodrum to Tallahassee

Bodrum’s Milas-Bodrum Airport serves the Turkish Riviera’s yachting crowd for much of the year, and it is also the point of departure for one of the longer legs on offer to Florida’s capital, a sector of approximately 5,231 nautical miles to Tallahassee. Distances of that order sit firmly in ultra-long-haul territory, and the Gulfstream G650ER or Bombardier Global 7500 are the aircraft best matched to it, each able to maintain a cruising altitude in the region of 45,000 to 51,000 feet for much of the crossing, above the majority of weather and traffic. Before boarding, many travellers linger over Bodrum Castle, built by the Knights Hospitaller on the site of ancient Halicarnassus, or spend a final morning among the marinas that have made the Turquoise Coast a byword for relaxed Aegean sailing, before the short transfer out to Milas-Bodrum for departure. Landing in Tallahassee brings a shift in scenery every bit as pronounced as the flight itself. Each spring the city’s historic avenues fill with the blooms of azaleas and dogwoods, a display that draws visitors to Florida’s capital in a way that has little to do with the palm-lined image most associate with the state, and everything to do with its distinctly Southern character. The pairing of Bodrum’s sun-bleached limestone and ancient harbour with Tallahassee’s shaded, blossoming streets makes for a route with genuine contrast at either end. It suits travellers extending an Aegean summer into an American spring, or those whose business or family ties span both the Turkish coast and the Florida panhandle, and who would rather cover the distance in one considered nonstop sector than through a chain of connections.