Private Jet New Orleans to Krasnoyarsk

New Orleans to Krasnoyarsk is a 5,649 nautical mile sector, and one of the more interesting to plan, since the shortest track runs north-west across Canada and close to the pole before descending into central Siberia. An ultra-long-range aircraft is the right tool: a Gulfstream G650ER or a Global 7500 will fly it nonstop with reserves intact, cruising in the mid-forties and stepping towards 51,000 feet as the fuel load lightens. Polar routings of this kind bring their own requirements, among them fuel freeze point monitoring, satellite and high frequency communication coverage, and carefully nominated diversion aerodromes across the Canadian Arctic, all of which are settled at the flight planning stage rather than in the air. Departures are made from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, a short drive west of the city and a field with established business aviation handling; its low elevation and long runway make a departure at maximum fuel straightforward even in Gulf Coast heat. Krasnoyarsk is reached at Yemelyanovo International Airport, twenty-seven kilometres north-west of the centre. The city is the capital of Krasnoyarsk Krai, a territory reaching from the Sayan mountains to the Arctic Ocean, and it stands on the Yenisei roughly four thousand kilometres east of Moscow. Founded as a Cossack fort in 1628, it now holds more than a million residents, and the Stolby pillars in the taiga south of the city remain its best known landscape. The route suits energy, shipping and commodity executives with interests in both the Gulf of Mexico and Siberia, where scheduled travel means two connections and close to a full day and a half in transit.