Jim Ratcliffe's Gulfstream G650ER M-OVIE flies from Egilsstaðir to Keflavik in 36 minutes

Jim Ratcliffe's Gulfstream G650ER, tail number M-OVIE, departed Egilsstaðir Airport in Iceland at 14:04 UTC on Sunday, November 1, 2026, and landed at Keflavik International Airport in Reykjavík 36 minutes later at 14:40 UTC. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 231 nautical miles, or 266 miles. The aircraft climbed to a highest altitude of 32,000 feet and reached a top ground speed of 397 knots, with an average ground speed of 391 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 272 US gallons, producing about 2,616 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 6,475 miles.

The G650ER is an ultra-long-range jet with a range of 7,500 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.925, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 12 passengers and can carry up to 19. This flight used about 3 percent of the aircraft's total range. M-OVIE is registered on the Isle of Man and held through Hampshire Aviation, the INEOS group flight department.

This was the third landing at Keflavik tracked for M-OVIE in the window of 40 flights from June 19 to October 29, 2026. The previous landing there was on July 15, 2026, 109 days before this flight. The aircraft's home base is Isle of Man Airport in Castletown, and its most common destinations in that window were Nice, Farnborough, and Castletown. Before this flight, M-OVIE had been on the ground for about three days, following its previous tracked landing at Castletown on October 29. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited five airports in four countries and flew about 4,090 nautical miles.

The aircraft's home base, Isle of Man Airport in Castletown, is 808 nautical miles from Keflavik. In the 30 days before this flight, M-OVIE made nine flights totaling 10.7 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 47,460 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was from Farnborough, Hampshire to Castletown on October 29, covering 663 nautical miles.

Jim Ratcliffe is the chairman and majority shareholder of INEOS, one of the world's largest petrochemical groups, with a net worth of about $17 billion. He is a Monaco resident and owns the INEOS Britannia America's Cup challenger, OGC Nice, the INEOS Grenadiers cycling team, and a stake in Manchester United. No owned vessels were near this flight, and no public events tied to Ratcliffe or his organizations were found in Iceland for this date.

Hampshire Aviation, the INEOS flight department, also operates three Gulfstream G600s: M-AMBA, M-ANTA and M-INKE. Those jets are shared between Ratcliffe and INEOS co-owners Andy Currie and John Reece, who each hold roughly 20 percent of the company. The group does not publish who flies which airframe, so those three aircraft are tracked under the INEOS corporate fleet.

It adds another data point to the travel record of a businessman whose interests span petrochemicals, sports, and yachting.