Private Jet Exumas to Irvine

Exumas to Irvine covers roughly 2,277 nautical miles, a distance suited to a mid-size or super mid-size jet over a crossing of approximately four and a half hours. Exuma Airport serves an archipelago famous for its swimming pigs, its impossibly clear turquoise water and Thunderball Grotto, a snorkelling site that once featured in a James Bond film and has drawn visitors ever since. A Citation Latitude or Challenger 350 manages the onward distance comfortably, cruising in the low-to-mid 40,000s across the Gulf of Mexico and the American Southwest before descending into Southern California. Arrival at John Wayne Airport offers a considerably calmer alternative to Los Angeles International, placing Irvine’s business parks and coastal neighbourhoods within a short drive of the terminal. The Exumas have become an increasingly favoured private island destination for American celebrities and entrepreneurs, with several high-profile Californian figures maintaining property in the chain, a fact that keeps demand for this route steady throughout the winter season. A mid-size or super mid-size cabin’s enclosed lavatory and comfortable seating suit families or small groups travelling with snorkelling and boating equipment. This pairing tends to serve private island owners, hospitality investors and vacationing families whose interests connect the Exumas’ pristine natural appeal with Southern California’s own entertainment and investment circles, benefiting from the direct routing a private charter provides over the limited scheduled service to this remote part of the Bahamas. The chain stretches more than one hundred miles, and charter guests often combine a flight into Exuma International with a boat transfer to one of the smaller cays further down the archipelago.