Ball Corp's global jet lands in Crete amid European packaging push

Ball Corp's Bombardier Global 6000 (N400BC) was tracked from Denver's Rocky Mountain Metro Airport to Chania International Airport in Crete on June 26, completing a 10-hour-56-minute flight. The aircraft, which has been on an extensive itinerary including stops in Montana, Japan, and Thailand earlier in the week, last departed from Westminster, Colorado, before crossing the Atlantic.

If Ball Corp executives were aboard, the timing would place them in Greece as the company continues to integrate its recently acquired European beverage-can operations in Belgium and Hungary — a move highlighted in Ball Corp's first-quarter 2026 earnings release [ball.com](https://www.ball.com/newswire/article/124280/ball-reports-strong-first-quarter-2026-results). The journey also follows a May report that Ball Corp is commissioning a new plant in Oregon and weighing further capacity in North Carolina, with CEO Ron Lewis noting European volumes are already fully committed through 2026 [resource-recycling.com](https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2026/05/21/ball-novelis-give-capacity-updates/).

The flight extends a pattern of globe-spanning movements for N400BC, which visited East Asia and the Midwest earlier in June. Crete, a Mediterranean hub, offers proximity to Ball Corp's EMEA customers and suppliers — a plausible backdrop for strategic meetings, though Celebplanes tracks the plane, not the people on it.