Fractional ownership and other private jet ptions are extremely expensive.
It is like suggesting that rather than drive your won car every day to work you should get a party bus and sleep comfortably until you get to work.
The coastal media elites don’t understand what they have done to the middle class.
This appears to be straight along the lines of: ‘Can’t afford bread? Let them eat cake’. - Can’t afford first class on the airlines? Rend a private jet.
If multi million $$$ contracts are involved and ESPECIALLY if 2 or more people are flying, then private @ $5-$10K an hour can be well worth it.
Time is money.
Time checking in.
Time going through TSA
Time waiting to board
Time boarding
Time waiting for flight delays
Time in flight
Time landing and deplaning
Time waiting for your bag
Time getting to and from a busy airport.
For a time conscious exec., on a commercial plane that is mostly all useless down time.
On a private jet, they can fly into a smaller, less congested and closer airport. Park the car, or get dropped off and 5-10 minutes later, be wheels up.
While on the plane, if co workers are with, details can be gone through or phone calls can be made (unable on commercial).
Plane lands goes right to its area and 5-10 minutes and you're in your ride, leaving the airport.
Flying ORD-LHR, first class, Depending on when you book, that flight might be $4480, a month from now, to $8643 within the next 2 weeks.
8 people could cost $68k flying commercial. $80k in a G450.
If the company owns its own jets and flies regularly, it's much, much less expensive. $3k an hour for fuel. 8 hour flight = $24k in fuel, plus airport taxes and fees for landing.
At a local military base next to my work, on a very hot summer day, a load master didn’t compensate for the hot thin air. The helicopter pilot got the rotors up to speed, and “jumped” up and forward before he realized he didn’t have enough lift. Helicopters can store a huge amount of energy in the rotors, and use it to do things the engines can’t sustain. He put the stick straight up to stay off the ground, but he didn’t have enough to pull back and stop the forward motion, or enough to gain any altitude. He wound up flying ten feet over parking lots and playgrounds for a half mile before finally being able to skid in to a safe landing in a baseball field.
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