Australian Open 2027. Arrive from Europe rested, with a car waiting after every session.

Melbourne is about as far from London as chartered aviation goes. An ultra long range aircraft will make it with a single technical stop, usually in the Gulf or in South East Asia, and the whole movement takes twenty one to twenty four hours including that stop. Planned well, it is two civilised days with a proper break in the middle. Planned badly, it is one very long one. The useful questions are where the aircraft stops, whether the crew changes there, and whether you get off.

Plenty of clients do it the other way: a scheduled long haul into Melbourne, then a chartered aircraft inside Australia afterwards for Sydney, Tasmania, the Barossa or the Gold Coast. We are happy to arrange either, and to tell you which we would choose. Your run to Heathrow, Luton or Farnborough at the London end is our own car and our own chauffeur. In Melbourne cars are arranged through operators we know, with one person here holding the whole itinerary together. See private jet charter, ultra long range jets and private jet transfers.

Most days at Melbourne Park carry a day session from late morning and a night session from around seven in the evening on the three roofed arenas. Five set matches do not respect a schedule. A night session that starts at seven can finish well after midnight, and in the first week, when the draw is full, it sometimes goes later than that. If the car is booked to a clock rather than to the tennis, somebody ends up standing on Olympic Boulevard at one in the morning.

So we plan the evenings with an open end. The chauffeur waits, you leave when the match does, and nobody is counting. Drop-off and collection points around the park shift through the fortnight as the crowds build and as neighbouring venues run their own events, so we confirm the exact meeting point with your driver on the day rather than promising a gate weeks in advance.