Private Jet Exumas to Krasnoyarsk

The Exumas to Krasnoyarsk is a 5,996 nautical mile sector of roughly eleven and a half hours, routed on a great circle that climbs away from the Bahamas, follows the North American coast, crosses Greenland and the Arctic and finally descends towards the Yenisei. An ultra-long-range aircraft is essential, and the Gulfstream G650ER or the Bombardier Global 7500 will fly the distance nonstop with reserves to spare, cruising in the high forties and carrying alternates across northern Canada and Russia as polar operations require. Both types offer a separate bedroom and a shower-equipped configuration on some aircraft, which changes the character of a flight approaching twelve hours. Departures use Exuma Airport at George Town, whose runway is among the longer options in the southern Bahamas and generally permits a heavy departure without a fuel stop, subject to temperature on the day. Arrival is at Yemelyanovo International Airport, some twenty-seven kilometres north-west of Krasnoyarsk, a field with the runway and apron capacity for the largest business aircraft. Krasnoyarsk lies along the Yenisei, the river that runs north for more than three thousand kilometres to the Kara Sea, and serves as the industrial and administrative capital of central Siberia, built on aluminium, hydroelectric power and metallurgical engineering. Immediately south of the city the ground rises into the Stolby national park, where columns of weathered syenite stand above the taiga and have drawn Russian climbers for well over a century. The route suits private owners with residences in the Bahamas and business interests in Siberia, along with corporate delegations combining both in one itinerary, all of whom gain most of two days over any scheduled alternative.