Private Jet The Hamptons to Cavallo

The Hamptons to Cavallo covers around 3,545 nautical miles, a transatlantic sector for which a heavy business jet such as the Gulfstream G550 or Bombardier Global 6000 is well suited, offering the range to fly non-stop while cruising near 45,000 feet above much of the weather encountered over the North Atlantic and the approach into southern Europe. East Hampton Airport, the principal gateway for this stretch of Long Island’s East End, is the point of departure, with the routing tracking broadly east across the ocean before descending towards Corsica’s southern tip. Cavallo, the destination, belongs to the Lavezzi archipelago, a cluster of granite islets between Corsica and Sardinia divided by the Bonifacio Strait, and has no airstrip of its own, so arrival is completed by helicopter from Figari-Sud Corse to the island’s private helistrip. The Hamptons’ famously visible summer social scene stands in almost deliberate contrast to Cavallo’s total avoidance of it, an island that has thrived precisely because it offers none of the photographed beach clubs and restaurant scenes that define Long Island’s East End each summer. For those departing the Hamptons, the roughly six-and-a-half-hour flight is a comfortable transatlantic journey, and the heavy jet’s cabin, with dedicated rest space, keeps the crossing restful, delivering passengers to a genuinely different register of summer retreat entirely. For Hamptons-based travellers seeking genuine escape rather than merely a change of address, Cavallo’s complete absence of a social scene is, more often than not, exactly the point of making so long a journey east. Those making the trip from East Hampton often describe the first few days on Cavallo as an adjustment period, before the absence of any organised social calendar starts to feel less like a limitation and more like the entire point.