Six thousand nautical miles, three separate cabin zones and one of the widest cabins in business aviation. Plentiful in Europe, which is often the point.
At a glance
Manufacturer figures for the type. Every quote names the actual aeroplane, its cabin layout and its operator, because individual aircraft differ a great deal on a type this long in service.
Why it matters
The Global family has been flying since the late 1990s and the 6000 is the version that settled into being the long-range workhorse of the charter market. There are a great many of them, they are well understood by operators and crews, and on most dates there is one within a short positioning flight of London. That last point decides more quotes than any specification on this page.
The cabin is the reason clients come back to it. Nearly eight feet across at the widest point, three genuinely separate zones, and a rear cabin that makes up into a bedroom on a night sector. Bombardier's interiors use a low cabin altitude and a quiet cabin as their selling points and passengers tend to agree on both. It is a fraction narrower and a fraction shorter than a G650, and for a great many trips nobody would notice which one they were sitting in.
Globals are arranged with licensed commercial operators. Where this aircraft earns its place is the space between a heavy jet that cannot quite do the sector and an ultra-long-range aircraft that is more aeroplane and more money than the trip needs. London to New York, the Gulf, west Africa, India and most of North America all sit comfortably inside it.
Reach from London
| Destination | Roughly | Realistic non-stop? |
|---|---|---|
| New York | About 3,000 nm | Yes, both ways, in any season |
| Dubai | About 2,950 nm | Yes, easily |
| Mumbai | About 3,750 nm | Yes |
| Los Angeles | About 4,750 nm | Yes, with the day's wind and load checked carefully |
| Johannesburg | About 4,850 nm | Yes |
| Hong Kong | About 5,200 nm | Yes, and the sector the type is known for |
| Singapore | About 5,900 nm | On paper only. In practice expect a stop, or a G650 |
Great circle distances, rounded, for planning only. Published range assumes eight passengers and still air; a full cabin or a winter headwind takes several hundred miles off it.
Range on the map
The ring is the published range drawn as a true circle on the globe, which is why it bends on a flat map. Change the departure to see the reach from anywhere.
Bombardier Global 6000 from Farnborough Airport (FAB). The solid ring is the published range, 6,000 nautical miles; the dashed ring is 85% of it, 5,100 nautical miles, the still-air planning figure we use to leave a sensible reserve. Winds, payload and reserves reduce real range, so every trip is checked on the day.
Said honestly
The alternatives
Long-range enquiries usually produce two or three of these together, and availability on your date decides as often as capability does.
Go a size up
There are sectors where the Global 6000 is genuinely the wrong tool, and they are all about distance.
Where it flies from and to
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Send the route, the date and the number of passengers, and say if anybody needs to sleep or to work online for the whole flight. On this type the individual aeroplane matters as much as the model, so we will tell you the year, the cabin and the connectivity of the one being offered before you decide.
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Questions people ask
We arrange the charter with a licensed commercial operator and name the aircraft, its year, its cabin layout and its operator before you commit. Our own cars and chauffeurs cover London and Manchester, with a trusted global network everywhere else, so the car is at the steps at both ends.
The G650 is faster, longer-legged and generally newer, and it is priced accordingly. The Global 6000 has a similar cabin width, three zones and enough range for the great majority of trips people actually make. On a London to New York or London to Dubai sector the difference in the cabin is small and the difference in the quote is not.
Range, essentially. The 5000 has a shorter cabin and about 5,200 nautical miles, the 6000 about 6,000, and the 6500 is the newer re-engined version with more reach and a refreshed cabin. All three fly from the same airports and feel broadly alike inside.
The rear zone makes up into a bedroom and the divans convert, so several of a party of twelve can lie flat on a night sector. Not all twelve can, so tell us how many genuinely need to sleep rather than how many are flying.
Farnborough handles large business jets regularly, subject to the aircraft, the load and the day. At full fuel this type is runway limited, so on a long sector the aeroplane often goes from a larger airport and the car takes you there. We check it for your specific trip rather than assume.
It depends on the route, the date and which aeroplane is available, and the spread between an older airframe and a nearly new one is wide on this type. See what private jet charter costs, and send us the trip for a real figure.
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