Own A Private Jet

The adventure

No check-in queues, no security lines snaking round the terminal, no boarding groups. You pull up at a quiet private terminal, someone takes your bags, and a few minutes later you're walking out onto the apron where your aircraft is waiting with its door open and the engines spooling up.

Inside there are a handful of leather seats, a galley stocked with whatever you asked for, and no strangers. You can fly to small airports close to where you actually want to be, change plans on the day and land straight into a waiting car. On long trips the biggest jets have proper beds and can cross continents nonstop. It is unashamedly extravagant, and that's the fun of it: the plane is yours, the timetable is yours, and so is the view.

Why it’s epic

• The longest-range business jets can fly from London to Hong Kong nonstop.
• Private terminals usually need you to arrive just 15 to 30 minutes before departure.
• Farnborough is one of the few airports in the UK dedicated purely to business aviation.
• Smaller jets can use thousands of airfields too small for airliners.

What it is

Owning a private jet is the height of luxury travel.

How to do it

Start with jet cards or charter flights.

Top tip

Running costs are very high.

Need to know

• Most people start with charter flights or jet cards, which buy flying hours without owning an aircraft.
• Fractional ownership lets you buy a share of a jet, with crew and maintenance managed for you.
• Full ownership means paying for pilots, hangarage, insurance and maintenance, even when the jet sits on the ground.

Why it’s on my list

Private jets are reserved for the rich and famous, they are expensive and extravagant, never cost effective, but who cares! This is a bucket list, so why not!

Why fly in first class, when you can have the entire plane, take off when you like, land where you like, eat what you like?!

If I were to have the private island, which in itself is a pipe dream, why not have my own plane to get to it.