Flying Private: The 20 Best Private Jets forTraveling in Style
What Is The Best Private Jet?
If you are an executive working in big business, then you are certainly familiar with the laborious need to travel. Moving from city to city, catching commercial flights is not always fun. However, if you are lucky enough to work for one of the true business behemoths (or entertainment companies here in L.A.), you may be able to travel by private plane. Private planes can run anywhere between $1-80 million.
If you work for a company spending that much cash for a means of transportation, then you need to know (and likely convince the higher-ups that you are getting something good for all that money.
What’s the Best Private Plane?
While private planes are generally superior to commercial airliners in nearly every way, private jets are not created equal.
Regardless of whether you want to buy, lease, rent, time-share, or charter a plane, each of top jets will get you from point A to wherever point B is in style and safety.
- Learjet Liberty 75, cost: $9.9MM
- Hawker 400XP, cost: $2MM
- Nextant G90XT, cost: $2.8MM
- Honda Jet, cost: $4.5MM
- Cessna Citation M2, cost: $5.5MM
- Pilatus PC-12, cost: $5.4MM
- Beechcraft King Air 350i, cost $7.4MM
- Pilatus PC-24, cost: $8.9MM
- Embraer Phenom 300, cost: $9MM
- Embraer Legacy 500, cost: $20MM
- Bombardier Challenger 350, cost: $26.7MM
- Cessna Citation Hemisphere, cost: $35MM
- Bombardier Global 8000, cost: $56MM
- Flex Jet Global Express, cost: $56MM
- Dassault Falcon 8X, cost: $58MM
- Gulfstream G550, cost: $61.5MM
- Gulfstream G650ER, cost: $66.5MM
- Boeing 757-200, cost: $67MM
- Boeing Business Jets, cost: $75MM
- Airbus 319 Corporate Jet, $80.7MM
With private plane charter and lease options becoming more and more common, there is no reason not to give it a try, at least once.
Flying private offers everything lacking on commercial flights for a surprising price. If you mostly make quick trips out and back, then a business jet or prop plane is worth its weight in gold to the company.
