A&K Launches First Private Jet Trip to 7 Continents

CHICAGO, United States - Seeing all seven continents usually takes years of planning, a heroic tolerance for connections and more than a few battered suitcases. Abercrombie & Kent wants to compress the whole undertaking into 28 days.

The luxury tour operator has unveiled its first private jet journey covering all seven continents on one trip, according to Travel Weekly. Scheduled for Jan. 3 to 30, 2028, the expedition will be capped at 50 passengers and priced from $225,000 per person.

Guests will travel aboard A&K’s fully reconfigured Boeing 757. The itinerary circles the globe from Miami to Madrid, with destinations including Brazil, Antarctica, Easter Island, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Laos, the Maldives and Egypt, Travel Weekly reported.

That’s an ambitious map for less than a month. Then again, the pitch isn’t simply about touching down on seven continents and collecting passport stamps. A&K is emphasizing private transportation, carefully timed visits and access that would be difficult for an individual traveler to arrange independently.

“Guests on our private jet program are not buying a flight. They are buying a year's worth of access in 28 days,” said Rami Girgis, vice president of private jet and special interest travel at Abercrombie & Kent, according to Travel Weekly.

Antarctica Without the Drake Passage

Antarctica is often the trickiest continent to fit into a globe-spanning itinerary, but A&K has built an aviation shortcut into this trip. Travelers will fly directly to King George Island, avoiding the Drake Passage, according to Travel Weekly.

Once there, guests will cruise Antarctica aboard a privately chartered expedition vessel. That combination of direct air access and a dedicated ship is central to the journey’s design; the Boeing 757 may be the flying base, but it won’t handle every leg or experience.

The itinerary also uses regional transportation to reach places where a large jet is only part of the equation. In Vietnam, guests will tour Ha Long Bay aboard a privately chartered boat. In Egypt, they will sail the Nile aboard the new Nile Seray riverboat, Travel Weekly reported.

This mix of aircraft and vessels gives the itinerary more texture than a rapid series of airport arrivals. Nobody spending $225,000 per person wants the dominant memory to be another jet bridge, no matter how nicely the plane has been reconfigured.

Private Access Drives the Abercrombie & Kent Itinerary

The scheduled experiences stretch from natural landmarks to archaeological sites. In Brazil, guests will visit Devil’s Throat, the largest of the 275 waterfalls that make up Iguazu Falls, according to Travel Weekly.

On Easter Island, the program includes sunrise at Ahu Tongariki. Australia brings dining under the stars, while Egypt includes private after-hours access to the tombs of Tutankhamun and Amenhotep III.

Those details help explain Girgis’ distinction between selling a flight and selling access. The aircraft connects the itinerary, but private entry, chartered vessels and carefully scheduled visits provide much of the value. A Boeing 757 can get passengers across oceans; it can’t, by itself, arrange an after-hours visit to an ancient tomb.

The journey also reflects A&K’s established relationship with its private jet clientele. Most travelers on the company’s private jet journeys have booked with A&K before, typically through a small-group or tailor-made trip, Travel Weekly reported. In other words, this is likely to look familiar to loyal A&K customers, even if the seven-continent scope is new.

The Booking Decision Is Really About Access

At this price, comparing the trip with a collection of ordinary airline tickets misses the point. In my view, the more useful question is whether the private charters, off-hours entry and coordinated transportation justify having one operator manage nearly a month of complicated travel.

The 50-passenger cap matters to that calculation. It limits the size of the traveling group while allowing A&K to move guests through a long sequence of air, ship and regional segments. Still, 28 days across seven continents will be intense. Travelers should look closely at the pace, not just the destination list. A spectacular itinerary can also be a demanding one.

There’s another distinction worth making: this isn’t simply private aviation dressed up as a vacation. The aircraft is essential, of course, but some of the strongest elements happen well away from it, including Antarctica aboard an expedition vessel, Ha Long Bay by private boat and the Nile aboard a riverboat.

For prospective guests, the sensible approach is to judge the complete package. Which experiences are genuinely difficult to arrange alone? How much do you value avoiding the Drake Passage? And are you comfortable spending 28 consecutive days moving through a tightly planned global itinerary?

For the right traveler, A&K’s first seven-continent journey offers something unusually tidy: one departure, one curated program and a remarkably broad sweep of the planet. It’s certainly not a casual splurge. But if your travel wish list has started to resemble an atlas, this may be the rare itinerary built to tackle it all at once.