French travel company Safrans du Monde teams with an Idaho-based couple to offer a 22-day private-jet trip around the globe. Here's what it's like.
, in 2022, the now 68-year-old mulled a trip. Not a quick getaway, though, but a months-long adventure—he was determined to circumnavigate the globe. An inveterate traveler who grew up partly in the Philippines and has visited more than 120 countries, Jones had nurtured the dream for some time. So he and his wife, Liz, a fellow licensed pilot, invested in a twin-engine Diamond DA62 and started flying it on short hops, road-testing it for comfort. It failed—big time.
Convenient, yes, but not without hiccups: While hotel dining and accommodations are universally superb, as are the guides in every location, the plane itself is a little tired—indeed, early bookings promised an A321neo rented frombefore this decades-older A340 was swapped in, offering neither Wi-Fi nor reliable power sources at its seats.
Safrans’s Bigiaoui insists that such solo flights miss a key point of this type of trip. “Every year, we have a mix of people on the aircraft who would never meet—that’s part of the richness of the tour,” he says. “I had a billionaire on board who told me, ‘I could buy the aircraft or the airline, but traveling here, I’ll meet people I won’t in everyday life.’ ” A doctor and a videographer are on this Safrans trip, too.
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