Private Jet Lagos to Tempe

Murtala Muhammed International Airport serves Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial engine and Africa’s most populous city, a sprawling metropolis spread across islands and lagoons where Victoria Island’s towers sit a short causeway from Lekki’s beaches and a film and music industry, Nollywood and Afrobeats among its exports, that has gone thoroughly global. The onward sector to Tempe covers roughly 6,431 nautical miles, a distance suited to an ultra-long-range aircraft such as the Gulfstream G650ER or Bombardier Global 6000, both able to cruise above 45,000 feet for most of a crossing that typically runs close to twelve hours. The routing crosses the Atlantic before tracking over Central America and into the American Southwest, trading Lagos’s dense, humid energy for Tempe’s dry desert heat and the quieter, grid-planned streets around Arizona State University. Business travellers in banking, oil and telecommunications, sectors in which Lagos leads the West African market, account for much of the demand on this pairing, alongside a growing number of entertainment industry figures working between Lagos and the United States. A direct charter avoids the London or European connection that a commercial itinerary from Lagos to Phoenix would typically require, consolidating what might otherwise be a day and a half of travel into one uninterrupted sector. Modern cabin pressurisation, holding the equivalent of roughly 6,000 feet even at cruise altitude, noticeably eases the fatigue that accompanies a flight of this length. Arrival in Arizona often leads straight on to meetings in downtown Phoenix or a few days of recovery at one of Scottsdale’s resort properties. A number of clients pair the visit with a stop in Scottsdale to combine business meetings with a few rounds of golf before returning home.