Jetalliance Flugbetriebs set a new speed record when it flew a Gulfstream 550 non-stop from Toluca, Mexico, to London Luton, England, in eight hours 24 minutes. Piloting the aeroplane was long-range chief pilot Johannes Hesshaimer and first officer Wolfgang Wallner, accompanied by flight attendant Alexandra Hirsch.

At 2156 the G550 took off from the high elevation airport of Toluca, located at 8,466ft (2,850m), and flew 8,930 km (4,822 NM) to London Luton, at an average speed of 1,063 km/h (574Kts). The crew already set a similar city-pair speed world record last May when they flew from Bali to Moscow.