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kleinbl00  ·  3576 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inequality Has Actually Not Risen Since the Financial Crisis

PBS lost me forever in 2004 when they remarked the economy must be turning around because Gulfstream was backordered on business jets.





b_b  ·  3576 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha. NYT had an article just today about how easy it is to charter your own private jet with some new apps that are out. Like uber for private jet travel. The downside is that sometimes you have to share :(

kleinbl00  ·  3575 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And if you can get 15-20 of your friends to go along, the price comes down to what you pay a domestic carrier.

Had a gig where a client basically bullied me into chartering a jet to get a hard drive from Seattle to Dallas to be there by 7am the next day. Fortunately for all concerned, none of the charter companies were interested in playing... but I did learn that the "meter drop" on a charter jet is about $5500.