International Travel for UHNW & VIPs
London to anywhere - air, ground, security, medical, hospitality on one desk.
A dedicated international desk for UHNW principals, families and family offices moving between London and the world. Private aviation, close protection, medical concierge, hotels, hospitality and excursions - designed, staffed and shadowed by one named trip director.
This desk exists for principals whose international trips can't afford a broken hand-off. Between the jet broker and the local fixer. Between the FBO and the residence. Between the wheels-up in London and the wheels-down in Cape Town, Marrakech, Nairobi or Zanzibar. One desk owns every leg, every hand-off, every contingency - and every plan-B when the day turns.
We charter aircraft, place SIA-licensed protection and vetted local ground at every stop, retain private-doctor and medevac cover across the itinerary, book hotels and private lodges, run advance recces on excursions and rehearse disaster-recovery routes before the family lands. One monthly invoice. One weekly forward-look. One person on the phone at 3am, wherever in the world the trip is.
A London-based billionaire, a three-week African family tour, one desk.
A London-resident billionaire principal and spouse, four children aged 6 to 17, both sets of grandparents joining for the middle week, personal chef, nanny and two household staff. Family office in Mayfair, existing in-house security lead, retained UK GP and paediatrician. Prior international trips run through three separate agents with duplicated briefs and no single point of accountability.
- London-resident billionaire principal and spouse, with a Mayfair family office.
- Four children aged 6 to 17, both sets of grandparents joining for the middle week.
- Personal chef, nanny and two household staff travelling with the family.
- In-house security lead, retained UK GP and paediatrician already in place.
- Prior tours run through three agents with duplicated briefs and no single owner.
- Twenty-one days across South Africa, Botswana, Zanzibar and Marrakech.
- Private-jet legs into short, rough and often unlit African strips.
- Retained UK doctor with paediatric competence travelling for the full window.
- SIA-licensed close protection in every city and camp, alongside vetted local teams.
- Medevac contracts pre-signed and pre-paid, not activated reactively.
- Every lodge, villa, route and excursion walked in advance, with alternates booked.
Execution.
A Global 7500 flew the London-Cape Town spine direct through a private FBO; an in-country Pilatus PC-12 handled the lodge-to-lodge legs across Botswana and the Okavango where strips are short and unlit at dusk; a mid-size jet covered Zanzibar and Marrakech. Ground moved between B6-armoured Range Rovers in Johannesburg and Marrakech and unmarked SUV convoys elsewhere. Six SIA-licensed CPOs rotated across the twenty-one days so no operator went beyond a safe shift pattern, the retained UK GP travelled throughout paired with a named in-country doctor at every stop, and an air-ambulance contract ran live for the entire itinerary. Seven properties were booked and walked by our advance team before the family landed - a Camps Bay villa, a Franschhoek wine estate, two Okavango tented camps, a Zanzibar private-island villa, the Royal Mansour and a bespoke Sahara camp - with private chefs, guides and separate programmes designed for the six-year-old and the seventeen-year-old.
Outcome.
Twenty-one days, four countries, twenty-two air legs, seven properties, zero missed connections and zero medical escalations that reached the principal. Four live incidents were absorbed by the desk: a malaria scare screened by satellite call within the hour, a Cape Town demonstration rerouted before the convoy left the villa, an eighteen-hour camp power failure covered by a K2 rotor delivering a generator and chef supplies before dinner, and a gorilla-trek in Rwanda permitted, staffed and slotted in within thirty-six hours. The family heard about all four at the debrief. One consolidated invoice closed the trip, and the retainer was renewed inside the fortnight with next year's programme already briefed.
- Days on itinerary
- 21
- Countries
- 4
- Air legs flown
- 22
- Vehicle transfers
- 11
- Properties booked & pre-walked
- 7
- SIA-licensed CPOs on rotation
- 6
- Retained doctors on itinerary
- 1 UK + 4 in-country
- Medevac contracts pre-activated
- 4
- Live incidents resolved
- 4
- Medical escalations reaching principal
- 0
- Missed connections
- 0
- Consolidated invoices
- 1
"Twenty-one days, four countries, one desk from the moment we left the residence until the moment the cars pulled back onto Belgravia. The four things that actually went sideways - a suspected malaria case with our six-year-old on day nine, a spontaneous demonstration in Cape Town that closed the road we were meant to be on, an eighteen-hour power outage at one of the Okavango camps after a lightning strike, and a last-minute request from our seventeen-year-old to add a gorilla-trek in Rwanda between legs - I heard about at the debrief, not in the moment. The doctor was on a satellite call inside an hour, the ops room rerouted our convoy before we noticed, a generator and chef supplies arrived by rotor before dinner, and the Rwanda leg was permitted, staffed and slotted into the itinerary within thirty-six hours. The children came home talking about the falconry and the balloon over the Delta, not any of that. One invoice at the end matched the brief to the pound. We renewed inside the fortnight and briefed next year's programme before the aircraft was even cleaned."
