Private Jet Proserpine to Charlestown

Spanning 9,029 nautical miles, Proserpine to Charlestown ranks among the longest sectors on the network, a journey best undertaken aboard an Executive Airliner such as a converted Boeing Business Jet or Airbus ACJ, both capable of the range and the cabin endurance the routing demands. From Whitsunday Coast Airport, gateway to Australia’s Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef, the flight tracks a route that effectively crosses most of the Pacific and Atlantic basins before touching down in the eastern Caribbean roughly seventeen hours later, cruising through much of that time above 41,000 feet. Charlestown receives arrivals at Vance W. Amory International Airport, where the volcanic bulk of Nevis Peak rises directly behind the runway. The island’s history runs deep for its size: Horatio Nelson married Frances Nisbet here in 1787, and the plantation house associated with her family still stands, now a beachfront hotel shaded by coconut palms. Cobbled lanes in Charlestown pass eighteenth century stone buildings that survived earthquakes and hurricanes largely intact. A sector of this length suits owners and charter groups relocating for an extended Caribbean season, or repositioning an aircraft between Australian and Atlantic operating bases with paying passengers aboard rather than flying empty. The Executive Airliner’s separate cabin zones, proper galley and crew rest facilities turn what would otherwise be a gruelling transit into a workable, even comfortable, day, with passengers able to sleep, hold meetings and dine properly before stepping into Nevis’s languid, low rise atmosphere on arrival. The island’s botanical gardens, laid out around a restored great house, offer a gentle first outing after so many hours in the air, while the surrounding reef gives divers an immediate reward for the distance travelled.