The Explorations Company are absolutely delighted to join forces with Sentinel Aviation to provide discerning travellers worldwide with highly discreet, exhaustively detailed and totally professional aviation services designed to seamlessly link your home to your private holiday or safari and, of course, reversing the process at the end of the trip.
The key to this pinnacle-level service is threefold:
The result? The ultimate in seamless, private, experiential travel.
There are, of course, air charter services available worldwide but very few, if any, cater in such minute detail to your own personal proclivities or, indeed, provide such flexibility or choice. It is these two intertwined core ethics that link The Explorations Company, whose expertise is naturally well known to readers, and Sentinel. Both businesses are utterly focused on the ultimate service experience matched by superb expertise in the air and on the ground.
Sentinel is the brainchild of Managing Director Roland (Roly) Dangerfield. During a distinguished career in the British Army, Roly learned to fly; a pursuit which quickly became a passion. As his breadth of experience on different types and routes rapidly grew, Roly decided that aviation was his vocational calling and completed a full set of commercial ratings.
The army was, therefore, followed by 12 years of demanding but fulfilling private commercial flying, initially on Challenger medium-range private jets before gravitating to more intercontinentally-capable, long-haul types such as the Bombardier Global Express.
Whilst flying, Roly was responsible for safely and discreetly ferrying royalty, politicians, diplomats, celebrities and ultra-high-net-worth businesspeople between something like 200 different destinations. Roly gained immersive exposure to private aviation requirements and, at the same time, became aware of the actual, yawning, service gap between what is “normal” private charter aviation and the far more singular product he now calls “full concierge private aviation”.
This realisation, revolving around an excellent detail and logistical background initiated in the forces and underscored by his years as a private-sector pilot, allowed Roly to turn his aviation expertise into a long-term business career through the establishment of Sentinel. Roly has a long-standing colleague as partner in the business who is also a commercial pilot, so the business is owned and operated by very experienced aviation professionals.
Once initial proof-of-concept had been completed, Roly started looking for a suitable partner to help fulfil his overarching dream of a holistic one-stop-shop that could effectively cocoon travellers for their entire travel requirements, both en route and to plan and execute the in-country travel planning at the chosen destination. Thus the liaison between Sentinel and The Explorations Company was born.
Sentinel can offer private aviation almost anywhere globally. Each charter is meticulously planned from inception right through to the post-landing debrief – and onwards. As with The Explorations Company, most flights are operated for Sentinel’s existing clients, with suitable new business coming from referral sources.
Whether a particular jet or turboprop, a particular limousine to and from one’s local airport or indeed excellence and flexibility for in-flight catering, Sentinel offer a superlative range of choice.
This attention to detail - outside aviation “norms” - is perhaps best illustrated by Sentinel’s employment of a specialist private flight steward to co-ordinate guests’ specific catering and dietary requests between Michelin (or other) sources and the aircraft operator, backed up by an award-winning sommelier to advise on wine pairings; but that’s just the tip of the “detail iceberg”!
The Explorations Company offers, of course, the same total flexibility in terms of destination and service: Whether Africa, India, Asia, South America, or the Polar Regions the only limiting factor is your imagination and desire to fulfil a goal, be it a family holiday or a specific task or project. As with Sentinel, all travel is completely tailor-made and so no two itineraries - or the planning thereof - are ever the same.
The overall combined aviation/destination service concept also includes three very important synergies shared between TEC and Sentinel:
In a post-COVID world (and indeed right now as we navigate the global situation), private travel is in high demand, being flexible, safe and certain. Your holiday or safari will of course be uniquely created to your own specifications but, to perhaps seed some possibilities, I have included some of my favourite ideas for exclusive luxury safaris and holidays travelling by private executive jet:
Do feel free to get in touch for more information, whether on concierge air charter, travel planning or a combination of the two pinnacle services. Or, if you would just like to dream for now, you can do so at our Video Library.
Images provided by kind courtesy of Sentinel Aviation and Pilatus Aircraft Ltd.
Private jet safaris are the ultimate in private luxury travel! For a group or a multigenerational family travelling together they become quite affordable and greatly enhance your experience, allowing you to make the best possible use of your vacation time and explore a wide geographic range of your bucket-list destinations!
Travellers will be asking one big question right now: How can I travel safely post Covid-19 and will I still be required to observe social distancing? It’s a question that merits serious thought. The obvious answer is to travel privately. Not only does this ensure socially distancing from others, but it also enhances the experience of your luxury safari holiday or vacation.
In 2021, more than ever, let us ensure we maximise our precious time with family and friends, where we can explore the magical and wild parts of the world and experience new wonders.
