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When your favorite players and teams head out for a tournament or a tough road game, you want them to arrive raring to go, which means resting up and getting ready on the team flight. All teams fly in style today, but which teams travel best? Some athletes own their own private jets. For example,...
Private jets certainly look slick, but when it comes to turbulence, do private jets suffer more or less than commercial planes? While commercial jets have size on their side, does the superior performance of a private jet reduce the threat of turbulence? Read on to find out. The answer is both yes and no. Private...
Traveling by private jet like a superstar is a dream for many of us. There is no doubt that private jets offer unmatched luxury and comfort. Flying private saves time as you’ll not have to queue anywhere. But do private jets also fly faster than commercial planes? TLDR – Private jets typically travel faster compared...
Throughout the first seven and half decades of the airline industry, passengers and crew could smoke on commercial flights. As most airlines and governments have banned inflight smoking, many travelers want to know if you can still smoke on private jets. TLDR – There is no law against smoking tobacco on a private jet. However,...
We’re all used to seeing two pilots on the flight decks of airliners. But what about the smaller private jets you see flying around secondary community airports? Are these planes flown by wealthy owners, or are they operated by charter companies? Most jets, even small ones, require two pilots in the cockpit. The reasons why...
Airplanes are built for missions, even if they fly in the civilian world. Nowhere is mission-based design more evident than in the world of private jets, where there is a jet for every customer. Some are super fast, some are ultra-long range, and some are as luxurious as a palace. Private jets fall into eight...
Whether you’re a millionaire with money to splurge on a luxury jet or simply someone who loves to daydream about that, the question remains — which private jets are the most popular and why? It’s the second part of that question that makes the first so meaningful. After all, it’s one thing to tally up...
We live in a world where it’s assumed that “Bigger is Better.” But what if we told you that when it comes to private jets, sometimes big things come in small packages as these sleek silver birds prove? Industries have seen trends towards smaller, sleeker styles before. Anyone old enough to remember how cellphones were...
Chances are when you think of NASCAR, you think of race cars, asphalt, pit stops, Daytona – not jetting off into the wild blue yonder. Even so, private jets are a big part of NASCAR culture, and they’re only becoming more popular. That’s due in large part to the fact that, even more than the...
Matthew 19:24 famously says, “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” – but they never said anything about private jets, right? In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo imagines his Bishop of Digne as a consummate “Man of God.”...