Merck flies back to New Jersey the day of the Goldman Sachs healthcare conference

Merck’s Gulfstream G650ER, tail N822MK, landed at Morristown Municipal Airport at 5:58 p.m. local time on June 9 after a two-hour flight from Walkers Cay in the Bahamas. The aircraft had departed the resort island just before 4 p.m., touching down in New Jersey as the workday wound down.

The same day, at 11:20 a.m. Eastern, Merck chairman and chief executive officer Robert M. Davis participated in a fireside chat at the Goldman Sachs 47th Annual Global Healthcare Conference in Miami Beach, per a Merck news release. The conference, held June 8–11, draws top biopharma executives to discuss pipeline strategy and financial outlook. Davis and Dr. Dean Y. Li, president of Merck Research Laboratories, were scheduled to speak about the company’s oncology portfolio, including long-term Keytruda data and the individualized neoantigen therapy intismeran autogene, fresh off presentations at ASCO 2026 in Chicago.

The flight from Walkers Cay suggests a brief personal stop before returning to headquarters. The same aircraft flew from Morristown to the Bahamas area on June 8, then back to New Jersey the following day — a pattern consistent with a quick getaway ahead of a major investor event. Merck’s two-aircraft fleet, based at Morristown, keeps the C-suite mobile for the conference circuit that defines the summer calendar.