Private Jet Vence to Glendale

A Gulfstream G650ER or a Bombardier Global 6000 is well matched to the 5,110 nautical miles that separate Vence, on the hills above the French Riviera, from Glendale, Arizona, a distance that places this firmly among the airline’s ultra-long-range city pairs. Both aircraft carry enough fuel to bridge the Atlantic and continue on across the United States without pausing to refuel, and both offer cabins tall enough for passengers to stand and stretch through a flight that will run close to ten hours. The journey begins at Nice Côte d’Azur, the gateway airport for Vence and the wider Riviera, where private aviation traffic is dense with owners heading to and from villas scattered along the coast; from there the routing runs north-west across France, out over the Atlantic, and on towards the American Southwest. On arrival, Glendale offers a very different landscape to the one left behind. The Desert Diamond Arena hosts a steady calendar of concerts and touring shows, while Camelback Ranch, spring training home to the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox, draws baseball fans each February and March. The city sits within easy reach of downtown Phoenix and Sky Harbor’s connecting flights, useful for onward domestic travel. Given the distance and the contrast in scenery, this route tends to suit owners and executives splitting time between a Mediterranean base and business or property interests in the American Southwest, for whom a single non-stop sector is worth more than the price of the aircraft required to fly it. The overnight nature of much of the crossing also suits travellers who prefer to sleep through the bulk of a long sector, landing in Arizona with the morning still ahead of them rather than arriving depleted after a full day spent in transit through multiple airports.