| Owning your own jet may not be as unrealistic as | | | | advantages. Most airports offer private parking, your |
| you may have thought. There are now thousands of | | | | own security checkpoint, executive lounges, and |
| business executives, athletes, and celebrities flying | | | | sometimes free transportation to the airport. You will |
| their own personal jets every day. The idea of | | | | also wait in line less and skip the hectic atmosphere |
| having this personal mode of transportation is no | | | | of the airport. When you land at your destination, |
| longer for just the billionaires and world leaders. | | | | you also won't have to wait for a gate or wait for |
| Aircraft companies such as Boeing, Gulfstream, and | | | | your luggage to make its way through the airport to |
| Cessna have been working hard to cut down on the | | | | the luggage carousel. |
| overall costs of purchasing, operating, and maintaining | | | | Have you ever had a difficult time finding an airport |
| small jets for years. Within the past five years the | | | | right next to your final destination? With a private jet |
| breakthroughs in technology and construction have | | | | you have virtually limitless possibilities for airports to |
| helped drop the cost of these planes very noticeably. | | | | land at. With the smaller airports you also skip any |
| A small jet that could carry 4-8 passengers would | | | | traffic or hustle and bustle in major cities. |
| usually cost between $3 to $4 million dollars about a | | | | Even though these personal jets are much smaller |
| decade ago, but now it could be yours for roughly $1 | | | | than the planes you may be used to flying, doesn't |
| million. | | | | mean they lack in any category. These planes have |
| Business executives and those who need to be | | | | the same if not more capability for flight time. A flight |
| anywhere in a short times notice have been | | | | from Los Angeles to Paris is completely possible. The |
| benefiting greatly from these relatively inexpensive | | | | jets are also more spacious and give more room for |
| jets. There has been a 30% increase in small airline | | | | passengers, along with offering luxuries ranging from |
| traffic at airports within the past decade, and almost | | | | a small bedroom quarters, flat screen televisions, and |
| all of those are from these personal executive jet. | | | | personal wet bar. |
| One million dollars is nothing to go throwing around; | | | | If you are a business executive, or just an individual |
| however, there has also been an increase in the | | | | that knows the value of time, then a personal jet |
| availability of leasing arrangements for aircraft. Think | | | | may be for you. Remember, even leasing a jet |
| of it as a time share for a plane. You don't pay the | | | | aircraft for a fraction of the price of purchasing one |
| cost of the plane upfront; you just share in the cost | | | | can reap you benefits beyond your belief. Next time |
| of maintenance and usage when you are on it. | | | | you are on a crowded plane and looking down at |
| Besides the whole benefit of being able to fly almost | | | | your small cup of soda and the ridiculously small |
| anywhere you need to in a moment's notice, owning | | | | portion of old pretzels, just remember you could be |
| your jet and/or flying a jet brings about other | | | | flying in style in your own relatively affordable jet. |