Mukesh Ambani's Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ flies 10 nm from Mumbai to Mumbai

Mukesh Ambani's Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ, tail number VT-AKV, flew from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai to the same airport on Monday, November 9, 2026. The aircraft departed at 01:09 UTC and landed at 01:09 UTC, spending 0 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance was 10 nautical miles, or 12 miles. The highest altitude reached was 5,600 feet, and the top ground speed was 275 knots.

The flight covered a short 10 nm at an average speed well below the MAX 9's top speed of Mach 0.79. The aircraft burned an estimated 0 US gallons of fuel, producing about 0 kg of CO2, equivalent to driving a car 0 miles. The Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ has a range of 6,600 nm, a ceiling of 41,000 feet, and typically seats 25 passengers, with a maximum of 50. It entered service in 2018.

VT-AKV last landed at Mumbai on November 1, 2026, 8 days before this flight. Mukesh Ambani's home base is Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. His usual destinations include Tokyo, Bangkok, Dubai, Muscat, Malé, and Jeddah. In the 30 days before this flight, his two aircraft made 13 flights, spending 40.4 hours in the air and covering about 15,376 nm. The Bombardier Global 7500 (VT-ASR) last landed at Mumbai on November 5, 2026.

Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, India's largest company by revenue at roughly $125 billion. He lives at Antilia in Mumbai, a 27-storey, 400,000 sq ft private skyscraper on Cumballa Hill. The flight was a brief repositioning within the same airport. It followed a pattern of short hops by VT-AKV, including a 4-minute hop from Macau to Hong Kong on September 18, 2026.

The aircraft is registered to Reliance Commercial Dealers Ltd, the subsidiary that also holds VT-ASR. The most common destinations in the 30-day window were Mumbai with 14 landings, New Delhi with 3 landings, and Zaventem in Belgium with 2 landings. The flight ended at the home base on file.

VT-AKV is India's first Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ. It arrived in the country on August 27, 2024. The aircraft's customization cost more than $120 million. The cabin covers more than 1,100 square feet.

The Global 7500 is an ultra-long-range four-cabin flagship with a range of 7,700 nautical miles. It handles regional business travel and Gulf and Southeast Asia hops out of Mumbai. The longest leg in that window was Newark to Vienna on November 1, 2026, covering 3,685 nautical miles. That flight was operated by VT-AKV.

Recent flights by the same owner include a November 5, 2026 trip from Hyderabad to Mumbai on VT-ASR. That flight covered 313 nautical miles in 1 hour and 31 minutes. On November 1, 2026, VT-AKV flew from Vienna to Mumbai, a distance of 3,218 nautical miles in 7 hours and 47 minutes. Earlier that day, the same aircraft flew from Newark to Vienna, covering 3,685 nautical miles in 8 hours and 24 minutes.