Private Jet Tortola to Bora Bora

Tortola in the British Virgin Islands lies about 5,563 nautical miles from Bora Bora, a distance well within the reach of a Gulfstream G650ER or Bombardier Global 7500 flying nonstop across roughly ten hours in the air. Terrance B. Lettsome Airport handles the departure, a facility long used to servicing the yachting and charter crowd that frequents the BVI, with handling teams equally capable of managing long-range private jet operations bound for the far side of the Pacific. The flight settles into cruise around 43,000 feet for much of its duration, a height that generally keeps conditions calm above the trade-wind cloud typical of this stretch of ocean, allowing the crew to serve a full dining service without the turbulence lower altitudes might bring. The destination is Fa’a’ā International Airport, serving Papeete on Tahiti, French Polynesia’s administrative capital, with a short onward hop required to reach Bora Bora’s own small airstrip before a final boat transfer across the lagoon. What follows is an island built around the eroded remains of an ancient volcano, its peak framed by a barrier reef so clear that the lagoon floor remains visible many metres down, home to manta rays, reef sharks and some of the most photographed overwater bungalows anywhere in the world. Vaitape village provides a low-key, everyday counterpoint to the resort life along the outer motu, and local pearl farmers still tend the lagoon’s oyster lines much as they have for generations. Travellers departing from Tortola, already immersed in one of the Caribbean’s premier sailing and island-hopping destinations, will find Bora Bora a natural, if considerably more distant, extension of the same appetite for turquoise water, coral reefs and unhurried island life.