Quoted from Neal_W:I suspect if Taco Bellyache was serving crickets and mealworms for protein, then it wouldn't give me the usual DEFCON 1 Rumbly Tumbly.
Also..
Bill is not wrong. I've had the opportunity to fly on private jets several times in my career, and there is nothing quite like the experience. You fly higher, faster, in luxury, and without any waiting or security. We would literally pull up to the gate 10 minutes before the flight, valet the car fifty feet from the plane, and the pampering was just getting started even though I was just a guest of the jet owner. As Bill stated, I'm in the group that if I could afford it then I would, and I seriously doubt that the vast majority of others would think/feel any differently.
I know jets can vary in price and operating costs, but about 6-8 years ago when I did all of my flying apart from the cost of the plane itself, the hourly operational rate for a two pilot flight on a Falcon 2000 with attendant was $10,000 - $12,000 per hour (I saw the invoices).