Apparently, American Airlines First Class wasn’t good enough for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for their latest trip to London. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left Jubilee festivities early and flew on a private jet back to Santa Barbara, California yesterday, a marked difference from Harry’s previous jaunts to the UK.
Harry + Meghan Leave Jubilee Festivities Early, Fly Home To Santa Barbara On Private Jet
Prince Harry turned some heads by choosing to fly American Airlines First Class over British Airways or Virgin Atlantic when he traveled from Los Angeles to London last year to attend the funeral of his grandfather Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. In fact, that marked the second consecutive trip on American Airlines over a British carrier. At the time, we joked that he probably flew on American Airlines because he wanted to be left alone onboard and flight attendants at AA are happy to oblige and usually don’t even need reminding!
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Ahead of the wildly-popular Jubilee Pageant, which marked the final day of the four-day bank holiday in celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, Harry and Meghan traveled from Frogmore Cottage in Windsor to Farnborough Airport (FAB), a small airport west of London which the rich and famous utilize to travel private, with their two children, Archie and Lilibet.
At approximately 2:00PM, their flight departed directly for Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA), located seven miles west of downtown Santa Barbara and not far from their home in Montecito.
The Royals were reported to have traveled on a Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign, which has a list price of $6.5 million and has 12 seats onboard. Traveling at speeds of up to 592mph, the journey to California theoretically takes approximately 11 hours, the same as a commercial jetliner, though it would have had to stop for refueling. However, pictures from the Daily Mail suggest the aircraft was a Bombardier Global Express, which could make the journey nonstop.
It is not clear if Harry owns this jet or rents it, but it is not the first time they have been spotted on this particular aircraft.
CONCLUSION
I hold no grudges against the Prince for choosing to fly his family private. It certainly makes things easier when traveling with two young children. In that sense, it makes his choice all the more admirable to fly commercial when traveling alone, because he probably does not even have to (from a financial perspective…from an environmental stewardship perspective is a whole different can of worms).
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OOOOH but what about the existential threat of climate change?? We only have a couple of years!! Typical woke libsters, do as I say not as I do….
Oh please. How often does he fly private to Europe?
Also, your use of woke as an insult say quite a bit about you.
The fact that you responded to my woke comment says much more about you!!
Yeah, that I am against things like racism, homophobia, misogyny, etc…unlike you…
And all for virtue signaling, obviously
Typical liberal/Socialist judgement call with not a thread of evidence to support it.
When Meghan says, “jump”, poor little whipped Harry immediately says, “how high”.
Meghan suckered the fool Harry into marriage. Both are massive hypocrites, and fools.
No wonder the Brits hate these idiots.
Aaron, please stop. Your wokeness is hastening global warming.
Woke is an insult. Being woke is being stupid.
Nah, being woke means being against racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. Since you are anti-woke I guess that means you are for them…
This is one reason why the woke mob is so despised and one small reason why the wokesters will get crushed in November.
You see I think Aaron is wrong. He thinks because I hold another point of view that I am evil, a fascist, a fascist. It’s the intolerance of the alleged tolerant
It’s sickening.
Na it means your a delusional child.
None of those isms or phobias exist.
They’re private citizens now so that’s hard to answer. Likely both to the Netherlands and the UK this year.
We know that in 2018-2019 it was at least 12+ private jet flights to various places. They were borrowing Elton John’s jet for some of it.
You leftist piece OS!
You goddamned communist!
At least he can get his dick sucked in private. He’s the woke one.
Ahhhh! Another do as I say and not as I do! My guess is they could care less about the environment unless of course they’re getting paid to speak about it.
It’s their business how they travel or what airline. Did they ask you haters for anything. For goodness sakes get a life haters.
I don’t blame them after the way the media and people around the world slaughter them
I would do the same, people need to allow them to live in peace, so what if they chose to fly private the things some of us would do if only we had a quarter of what they have
I wish them nothing but the best and every happiness
AMEN
I am bored with the unsubstantiated and ridiculous comments about Meghan and Harry. The behavior of the hypocritical behavior Royal Family is what needs commenting not an airplane trip with 2 small children. Don’t invite someone to an event so you can insult and embarrass them which exactly what happened.
How Harry and Meghan and children came and went is petty nonsense.
Two things:
-Let’s face it, AA is not good enough even for the common folk.
-Also, rich people flying on a private jet is news now? lol
Great. Now all the sea turtles are going to die. Thanks Trump!
Thought it was the polar bears.
I was more worried about TFG killing America’s brain cells tbh.
And here I thought you and all your liberal celebrity buddies have gone to Mexico to escape the Trump presidency. Welcome Back! Hope you enjoy the price of gas, poop on the streets, no infant formula, double priced meat, eggs and produce (if you can get them). Maybe Harry and Megadon can pick up you in their private jet to avoid the commoners.
Is flying on a private jet consistent with their pledge last year “towards a more sustainable future by becoming net zero by 2030”?
The Duchess of Nothing likely thought such would get her in the news easier, since only the most important of the virtue signaling elitists can travel in such manner. Of course, her and Harry’s groupies were all excited, as you can tell from some comments.
Sure, they’ve still got 8 years.
Basic rule of life for everyone should be to never trust anyone who dressed up as a Nazi. And don’t give me the “he was young” BS.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-16/the-sun-shows-prince-harry-wearing-nazi-uniform/9752022?nw=0
Lay off Prince Harry. He gives great headache.
Did you ever fight for your country? Have you done military service?
So dressing up as a Nazi is OK if you fought for Germany in WW2 is fine with you? Got it. What’s this clowns excuse? A party?
Well, you dress up in a sheet and hood every day, Dave. The difference is you do it for real.
I don’t want to hear him lecturing us on carbon footprint. Hypocrite.
How did he enter the US at SBA?
Just like so many do at the southern border, but much more lavishly. But Harry can call his friend Kamala and get direct permission for SBA.
I sure they cleared in Maine. That plane has just enough range to cross the pond.
I’m sure the US taxpayer would have paid for US CBP to go to SBP especially to clear them into the country.
Maybe this has something to do with the Duchess of Twitter and her cuck consort getting booed during the festivities? Maybe their feelings were so hurt that they demurred to travel with the hoi palloi.
Nice one. I like that. She’s terrible. Should’ve pretended to have covid like Andrew.
Isn’t that quite high density for a Cessna Sovereign? I don’t think that’s likely to be a 180 flat seat.
Perhaps he checked the box to pay to offset his carbon footprint.
With all the lounges having reopened in T3, I would have preferred to fly AA in F.
He going to have to stop to refuel that thing though, right?
Maybe he saw the Mike Tyson clip and decided he’d had enough of the joys of commercial flights.
I’m hoping for the day that someone comes right out and says it “Everyone else should reduce their carbon footprint. I will continue to use fossil fuels as I see fit.”
I imagine Netflix paid for the flight.
That could well be.
As long as Netflix had cameras following them, and you know the Duchess of Nothing most certainly did, then it was simply a business trip. And thanks to the fast return, maybe she can find time now to visit her father (just out of the hospital recently). But that would totally unlike her nothingness…
Wow, this woman really triggers you for some reason…
Given how many people boo that bed wench it seems everyone is.
At least a plane can’t boo them. Poor poor dears needed a hug even if it was a plain. Give us a f$#/^n break.
Let’s be bipartisan. Let’s start castrating losers with more than two kids. Harry’s brother William fits the bill. And he lives on public dole.
CASTRATE THE LOSERS. Every loser with more than two kids needs to be castrated on live television.
Because he really cares about Clima Change? LOL!! I bet Greta was onboard with them. What a joke.
Not Greta, But JFK Jr. Was on board to come back and make his triumphant announcement as Lord Emporer Trumps running mate in 2024. MAGA!
Why does hypocrisy never stick to the left. This is the same crowd with 24 hour armed security detail telling us we need to hand over our guns.
Surprised nobody has yet pointed out, since this is an av geek blog, there’s no way a 680 can make it to SBA from Europe. Not even close. It can’t even make it from Ireland to anywhere in the USA. So unless they went London to Greenland to Chicago to SBA, it didn’t happen on that plane. They were likely on a Bombardier Global Express. And no they don’t own it since it would cost as much, with maintenance and staff, as their house. So they rented or had a friend/employer loan it.
That’s an interesting (and great) observation. I was going off what the Daily Mail reported. I’m going to dig a bit deeper.
That Daily Mail article you linked is from 2019. It has nothing to do with this recent trip. Seems a bit lazy to have cited it.
The other Daily Mail article – I linked to two of them.
Has 3200 miles of range. Plenty to get to Maine. They can even stretch that since it’s 2 adults and 2 children.
Jim, you strike me as NOT a pilot, but rather someone that googled “what’s the range of a sovereign”. How do I know that, because that’s what Google returns when you do that. However, if you were a pilot or a flight planner you would know that you need to account for the fact they were flying AGAINST the wind which depending on the day’s conditions reduces the range. You also need to account for the pilots (2) which you did not in your post plus you need to account for the luggage weight and diversion and circling fuel weight–known as ‘reserve’. And then if you look on the MANUFACTURER’s website, not google, you’ll find out the range of a Sovereign is 2,800 and a Sovereign + is 3,000. I have no problem with people speculating but if you get into flight calculations that follow NBAA fuel reserve and other good practices, please know what you are talking about before jumping in. Crossing the atlantic in headwinds on fumes based on google returned distances and then stretching it would not be how I’d want to plan my private jet trip. But if you like that Jim may be the flight planner for you. And Jim, you can’t keep stretching it, you would need to keep refiling and adjusting your flight plan in flight which nobody is going to do b/c you are trying to stretch it like a cheap skate. And the place you stretch it to better have a customs and border patrol facility, not just any ‘stretch it’ airport. Not worth it. They weren’t on that plane.
I’m sure they stopped for gas.
I tried: “He going to have to stop to refuel that thing though, right?”
I used to fly from Florida to London with a stop for fuel in Bermuda– I know the 680 wouldn’t make that either. Maybe the Azores?
Back in the day, when you landed in Bermuda they FAs would come through the cabin spraying cans of bug spray to try to kill off invasive insects. Passengers were instructed to cover their eyes and mouths. Once you were sufficiently high, you were allowed off the plane to stand on the tarmac or in an open air, lounge area of sorts, while refueling.
If you can eliminate any drive from Santa Barbara to LAX, I say do it!
Lol I know all of you on here talking about climate change wouldn’t touch a hybrid car if your life depended on it.
Good point. However, whenever they (Or nearly anybody) fly to LAX there is still that remaining ride toward north, most likely, and would have been by large automobile. Not sure what would have been more inconvenient. They didn’t NEED to visit Grandmother, they decided it was the right thing to do. The private jet was probably a way to avoid stressed out sickened fellow passengers on an airliner, for the sake of their kiddoes. Sorry, but, their decision is relatable.
Has anybody been able to reach JFK (John Forbes Kerry) for comment?
Personally, I think flying in a Sovereign for 11 hours is more humble than taking AA/BA/VS first class.
Bloggers know that posts like this gaslight the trolls. The replies, including this one, add nothing to the discussion.
I read today AA has bugs in FC meals. Need I say more?
No more lectures about our carbon footprints. IF I desire to drive a 500 cid gasoline V-8 engine powered 1975 Cadillac then leave me alone. These two will create a bigger carbon footprint in the next 10 years than I will in my entire life.
How DARE they exercise freedom of choice!
The people who claimed to be climate concious, environmental friendly etc, they are the most hypocrite. Using large carbon footprint.
I wonder if those who are “Woke” care at all about the true evil in in world, e.g.,
1) China’s slavery and violence against Uighurs and against Tibet
2) North Korea’s starving and imprisonment of its people to keep a standing army of over 2 million, while also developing nuclear weapons in violation of UN sanctions
3) Iran- similar to North Korea
4) Arranged marriages in several culture
5) Vladimir Putin’s deliberate targeting and murder of civilians / children in Ukraine
6) The use of slave labor to mine rare earth metals (necessary for the Woke’s beloved electric cars) in the “Democratic” Republic of the Congo and China
7) The severe environmental damage caused by said mining and refining of rare earth metals
8) The burying of used wind generator vanes in Wyoming – they can’t be recycled
9) The over 50 years of iron fist liberal Democratic rule in every major city that has resulted in astronomical taxes, violent gun crime, a permanent “underclass” mired in grinding poverty (mainly people of color), failing public infrastructure such as for drinking water, roads, sewage treatment, etc.
I could go on and on, but all the “Woke” do is falsely claim the US is an “evil” country.
Why is it that anything Prince Harry and his wife do make the English people angry and jealous. No man will allow other people to tell him how to run his family. The prince and his wife have decided their path in life and generate their own income and the English people are angry. Now in England it is a thing of joy to join the bandwagon of people who degrade the prince and his family. People fly private jet on daily basis, what is wrong with that.
The private jet spared other passengers from having Harry the Victim and Mrs Goldigger inflicted on them. Long may they stay on the other side of the pond and out of our way and news.
Who cares who flew or didn’t fly on what airline?
What does it matter to ya’? If you gotta’ job to do, just do it well. Don’t have to give the other fella hell!
Live and let fly.
Except for easier security (a big factor with kids) I’d rather fly F direct uk to la than private without a flat seat.
Why wouldn’t anyone use private if they are able. I could never dream of private or even first class, but use it if you want. I doubt the plane used more fuel than a commercial plane and it won’t be cancelled like commercial. And American Airlines sucks.
Because Harry has repeatedly lectured the hoi polloi about their carbon emissions and both his brother and father – the heirs – have flown commercial? People dislike hypocrisy.
Is this a jealousy article? The writer sounds very jealous. Do you think anyone who can afford to not go through airport hell would choose that?
Have you ever flown American Airlines first class? I’d rather fly Emirates first class. In fact, I’d rather fly private if I could afford to do it.
A question to the article writer: Were you beaten up in high school?
This is the most nonsensical article I’ve ever read.
With all the mentally ill people roaming around I think it’s much safer for them to fly private.
To the writer, Get a life!!
Thanks for your click, Ken.
Most likely they used one of Oprah’s jets. Googled and an article about 10 celebs and their jets. Oprah has a Bombadier Express amongst her jets. Lives near them. Remember she was a guest at their wedding. And her interview of Meghan & Harry led to friction amongst him and the family when Prince Phillip was sick and had been hospitalized before he passed away.
Genuinely curious why you think this sounds jealous, when the other royals, including Harry in the past, take commercial due to the family’s public criticism of carbon emissions?
Why would you choose AA first class when there is Delta?
What’s with your snark about AA’s First? Yes, it’s far from a true international class we find on CX, SQ, QR, EK, AF or LH. But when Harry was courting Meagan in Toronto, he flew BA. BA flies F into LAX so why didn’t you slag BA instead of AA…BA’s F product is not the greatest (though agree it beats AA’s). And of course, your favourite US carriers (UA and DL) don’t even offer an F cabin.
What do you mean Mathew?? “Apparently American Airlines First Class wasn’t good enough…?” Aren’t you supposed to be an unbiased journalist? A few months ago I flew London to LA through Heathrow. It took 2 1/2 hours to get through security with all toiletries inspected! So you think they wouldn’t be mobbed doing that with their high profile. How can you know their personal circumstances anyway? Tired of people passing judgement!
If you actually read my story closely, I clearly pass no judgment against them and I would fly private too if I could afford it…so, you were saying?
The gloves are off now and they longer give a s…. good for them. Do I guess the next time Liz or the RF try to reach out to them , it will fall on deaf ears. I bet Harry and Meghan will have another baby. If Meghan isn’t already Pregnant and if so good for them again. Do you Harry and Meghan.
WOW! People on here are vicious! Mr. Kline, I think you did a great job on the article and folks are just nuts. I would fly private if I could but can’t. I agree that all the “woke” folks often appear crazy. They all want a handout, are offered by many things and are lazy as all get out! Life doesn’t work that way! I will see you next article take care!
I would too. As long as cash-flow supports it. Good on ’em.
I think they took a private jet for the children !! It would be more if a family get away and the children would be free of others with COVID symptoms. Just protecting theirs.
Why are people so bordered about these people? Anything they do, people will complain. Now it is private jet. Are you paying for them to fly? All these jealous online uncles better shut up.
Of course! Because flying in a private jet is so much more eco-friendly. And with them being the eco-warriors they are and telling us all how to save the planet….wonder if they can pronounce “hypocritical” correctly? A$$hats, the both of them…