20 Things You Didn’t Know About Quantum Of Solace (2008)
17. “Tanner, Authorise A Charter For Double-0 Seven.”
M’s Chief of Staff, Bill Tanner (Rory Kinnear) claims that Dominic Greene and his henchman, Elvis (Anatole Taubman) are flying from Port-au-Prince to Bregenz, but the Austrian town does not have an airport; the nearest is St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport, over 9 miles away in neighbouring Switzerland.
Scenes set at “Bregenz Airport” were shot on 8th February 2008 at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, which first encountered Double-0 Seven during nearby filming of the explosive pre-credits sequence to Die Another Day (2002).
Greene travelled aboard a Bombardier Challenger 604 owned by British private jet company, Ocean Sky, which leant five planes worth over £100 million to the production to fly the cast and crew out to Panama for a week. Ordinarily, the company charged £5,000 per hour for the use of its planes, but negotiated for their name and aircraft to feature eight times in the film instead.
Ocean Sky even arranged for cannons to be fired at Aeropuerto Internacional Enrique Adolfo Jiménez in Colón to clear the runway (which doubled for an airfield in Haiti) of vultures with six-foot wingspans so that senior captain, Andreas Kollberg could use it safely.