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You may often wonder and ask yourself, is a private jet worth its costly price tag? A standard-sized jet has a whopping price tag of $5 million, and it can go up depending on the age, size, and features. Furthermore, when you own a private craft, it is necessary that you shell out thousands of dollars each year for its maintenance and other charges. You will also need to hire a professional pilot to fly you to city, and a pilot with more than 5 years experience likelycosts about $60,000 per year.

A private jet is worth all the money that you paid for it if you are going to use it all the time for business and pleasure. However, if you will only use it only a few times in a year, it is certain that the money that you worked hard for will simply go straight to the garbage can.

Making use of a private plane only means that you get to be in charge of your own trip while traveling. This is also the best way of getting into control and handling your travel requirements. When you have a flight booked you will also get to decide how you will be traveling, the destination city and traveling in class, comfort and luxury. You will come to realize how wonderful it is to travel on a private jet only when you go through the stress and nightmares of a commercial aircraft.

Commercial airlines are attempting to maintain its present client base, and attracting new passengers. Congestion at check in counters has been replaced by a self check in format, made use of all through the commercial airlines. With self help programs, passengers can utilize the computer to check bags, select their seats and print a boarding pass right away. Not only can you utilize the self help counters at the airport, also in the comfort of your own home, on your laptop, 24-hours preceeding your take off time. Such are new tools that the commercial airline market have established to assist the tired traveler.