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To be perfectly clear, I am a more total current. I'm not rich, and when I travel, I invariably buy the cheapest humanly available tickets (Regardless of whether they involve insane pissues at international airports) And yes, it means to take frequently low-cost airlines where I settles in seats that seem to have been made from the same hardware as Barbie's Dreamhouse.

But recently, I found myself with an invitation to board a private plane on a misty day in early April of New York in Mexico. We were seven of us who give visit to a tequila distillery, near Guadalajara, and the honest truth to God is exactly an idea of ​​what life would be like continuing in the sky in a luxurious Gulfstream v. (Spoiler alert: it wasunbelievable.)

So, read it, make up your best sparkling and slam your tray table, because the following is a real account of what it is to fly like a billionaire. But do not worry - if you want to improve your own travel experience at a bus course rate, all you have to do is read the20 ways of Genius flying less miserable.

I was ready to fly from Teterboro in New Jersey, an airport I knew was an airport just because that can forget the miracle on the Hudson? (Air Traffic Control: "De Teterboro Did you Tetterboro? Sully:" We're going to be in the Hudson. ")

However, Teterboro is not a large part of the airport at all - at least not in the way I imagined. Your taxi deposits you in front of a small two-storey building and you cross sliding doors to find a non-different lobby of a business hotel, with a concierge desk, plush leather sofas and a piano in the corner. .

The walls are made from glass, so you can see all small planes standing like toys on the landing ground. At the corner of the main living room, there is a massage chair room where you can relax while watching Fox news, as well as a self-service counter that has coffee, tea and products from bakery. In addition: you get your choice of free magazines. When we were there, they hosted the employee appreciation day, so we also welcomed cupcakes. And if you are looking for more incredible travel tips, read it onA drinking agents never want you to order.

The best part of Traverse Teterboro is that it makes travel by plane to feel so painless than taking a Uber. You do not need to go through the type of security, no one wonders about anything, and I have never flashed my passport before arriving in Mexico.

Once your plane is ready, a companion puts all your suitcases on the type of bird luggage cart you will find in five-star hotels and prevails to be placed in the cargo holding. I was dazzled. Here's how Paris Hilton should feel! Oh, and speaking of luxury:Here are the 15 luxury designers the billionaires have on the quick dial.

I do not know why I assumed that I guess the private jets are impregnated with a kind of protection that prevents them from being delayed or canceled, but the weather is of the weather, regardless of your wealth.

Our flight was supposed to take off at 9:00, but the outer fog was so thick that you could not even see any of the planes. We also assumed that our plane was waiting for us on the tarmac, but it costs extra money, so when we arrived, it was still 45 minutes to Rochester.

Our intrepid group leader is sent texts with our pilot, who felt quite cool at first. Four hours in the waiting, however, the pilot felt more and more a guy who excuses not to meet. "He said he needs a mile of visibility to land the plane but my weather app says we already have that," exclaimed our group leader, because what felt like the 80th time. The height of taking a private jet had already started to fend for it, because we simply choose the sandwiches we had ordered a neighboring Italian delusion. A pair of children started hitting the piano keys and we all groaped and sank more deeply in our first world problems.

While crunchy for coffee machine scones, I noticed that the airport had some additional amenities on the second floor. One was the "pilot's nap part" (what I obviously did not enter because it's notThe Gray Anatomy) The other was a fitness center.

I expected the so-called gymnasium to be just a broken treadmill and some weights, but it turned out to be complete enough, with a lot of equipment and a yoga space at the corner, so that televisions to play (more) Fox News. The bathroom has also had some showersand even a Finnish sauna. I did not have a workout clothes with me, but even in my heels and my dress Ralph Lauren, I managed to get some leg lifts at the electric tower dipped station. And for a luxury travel coverage,Discover the crazy amenities of the best airport-photos of the world.

We all shouted when a beautiful driver crossed the sliding glass doors and informed us that, finally, our Bougmobile was finally here. The pilot seemed pretty short of our frenetic screams and our cries Harrid, but at that time he was our favorite person of all time.

Finally, our delay was over and the living luxury could begin. We entered a little van that took us to about 50 feet in our plane (we could have scored, but the rules are rules), then climbed the stairs, tookMandatory Pictures of Envy for InstagramAnd we were in! Easy PEASY.

The interior of the plane looked a lot like the photos I had seen fromPrivate jet of Elvis Presley, except much less than 70 years old and much more glamorous. There were six white lounge chairs, two gray sofas that can bend to make a bed (later), a tiny kitchenette with a microwave and a stalle of a person with the type of marble sink, panels of Varnished wood and soft backlight You find in the fantasy hotel bathrooms.

The chairs were exceptionally comfortably and you could press the chair far enough and expand the footrest so as to be almost completely horizontal. However, what we did not expect, however, was that, with just the press of the button, the chairs could pivot like bumper cars.

Everyone on the plane could not overcome that and, like children, we continued to pivot in a judicious way throughout the flight of 5 hours, to the consternation of our eternally patient flights. And if you are looking for a bigger trip of bigger journey #inspo, here15 drops of airbnbnbs from all over the world who will not break the bank.

As comfortable and practical as it was, the best part of taking a private jet was definitely our personal flight agent, who was there to meet all our needs.

She gave us wet towels, loaned to all our needs and filled our glasses with white wine while we slept, like a magic elf. Our on-board agent has been in the business for a long time and boy has warm gossip. She talked about being a flight companion in the 90s (and waiting for Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears back when they were the biggest couple in the world). She said they seemed to be in a real relationship and not a public relations thing that put this persistent rumor to rest. For hottest potins, check20 secrets your on-board agent will not tell you.

WhileThere may not be so many people with sex on commercial flights As you could imagine, people who take private jets go like rabbits. We asked our on-board agent in which it works, as you know, you are at the sight and voice of the onboard agent and the pilot and the co-pilot, and she said you can Somehow say when the couple wants to be left alone, how much you could go close the separator and sit with the crew for a moment. Or sometimes she said that people might even ask you to scare you a little bit. Looks a little clumsy but, hey, if that's what you are in ...

When you enter the plane, your seats are on your right, and the cockpit is on your left, so you can spend time during the flight and discuss the driver, which is really cool. Although, granted, see an empty seat in the cockpit is extremely devoid, even if you know it's on the autopilot.

Essentially boiled safety instructions: "If me and the pilot and the co-pilot die, the seven of you are alone, then you'd better know how this plane works."

WHEREAS on a commercial flight, you get the basic ruin of where the emergency seals are and how to put on an oxygen mask, on a private level, you must learn to open the emergency exit and to Inflate the slide, and to believe me. , it is not easy. We all tried to listen carefully as she explained the instructions, but once she went into the way we had to move the chairs and open a secret flap and climb her without tearing it, we all abandoned and decided to go with God.

When you are on a private jet, you can feel everything that happens much more than a heavy commercial aircraft. Once you have taken off, you are very aware that the plane in which you are light; It feels a bit like if you can be blown by a strong wind burst. I asked the pilot if private aircraft are more likely to block than business sales and, although he said no,statistically it's not really true. It was probably trying to prevent mass panic. If you are a nervous clergy, it could be a compelling reasonJust stay with the first class on a commercial jet.

I thought we would be treated at caviar and champagne immediately on board, but the selection of food was actually pretty basic: some sandwiches, fruit, cheese and a surprisingly delicious rocket salad with strawberries and a balsamic vinaigrette.

It may not have been fanciful, but it was really fresh, and it certainly beats the over-salty food tray you get on commercial flights. In addition to avoiding meals, here isA drinking agents never want you to order.

It seems obvious, but I was always breathtaking how expensive. The pilot said that our jet cost about $ 10,000 per hour for rent, which means that our flight to Guadalajara and back came to $ 100,000.

This did not include the money it costs to cover the two days of the waiting crew for our group in Guadalajara, the more restoration. If you are interested in flying by private plane however,There are companies that offer the possibility of reserving seats for a fraction of the cost of a traditional carrier.

We have stolen on a G-5, so since the beginning, I put pressure for a monitored music video to "fly like a G-6" and that was all I had hoped until we Reached a pocket of air and I headed in the air, the screaming draining agent "Go back into your seats!" Tracking me joking nervously how terrible it is that our sticky music video is the last thing they will find in the wreckage. Fortunately, we survived, and now we're kidding about it all the time.

Warren Buffet has recently aroused some controversy By saying that money can not buy happiness, but billionaire is right. Taking a private jet was a unique and fun experience, but between all the gaiety, I was always disappointed with all the things I'm wrong when I'm alone in my couch at home.

And as great as it was, he does not always bother to joke with roommates with my dog ​​on my knees on Sunday afternoon. So, if you have the opportunity to fly high as a G-6, take it. But otherwise, do not despair. There is more lifestyle than luxury.

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