My wife's company has a Citation X. I don't know shit about it (have never even seen it), but I know it's FAST compared to commercial, and I know it costs a shitton in JP5, or whatever it burns. She says it's between $15K-$20k in gas depending on where they're going. When she flies she calls me when they land, and sometimes I'm totally blown away by how fast that usually is.The wife works for a little airplane company. Their most numerus jet has a burn rate of 150gal per hour. Where as most larger commercial jets burn roughly one gal every second.
The math is not hard to figure if you really want to......and that is just fuel burn, that is such a small part of the overall costs of a small jet.
It is interesting, when you think of the "first" business jet, the lockheed jetstar it burned darn near 500gal per hour, things have come a LONG way in a short time.
If I had so much money it didn't matter I'd have one. I fucking HATE the TSA and flying commercial. I get mad every single time I have to deal with those pieces of shit.
The the copilot meets her in the parking lot and carries her bags. She walks through the office, out the back, and 50 yards to the plane. She boards, they close the doors, and taxi within five minutes. In the air in ten doing nearly the speed of sound to wherever they're going. Must be nice.