How to sell a $90,000,000 private jet 😳

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You have a budget in your mind for this first airplane. I can go all the way up to 80, 90 million, and I really like the G Stream product. G7 and G. You're my guy!

I definitely can. 62 million is the new one; 10 years old is 36 million. Let's say you get something under 3 years old, you're going to be somewhere in the 50s. Okay, inside height 63, so that's important to me. The G650 ticks every box.

Can have a dedicated two-pilot cabin attended. When you have your own crew, they baby that airplane. That thing is just top, top, top. Flight attendant knows what kind of food you like, cashmere blankets that nobody else has slept on. Cashmere blankets! I would have never thought of that.

Looking at two pilots, 150 to 250,000 a year. The head captain will probably get co-pilot; you might need three pilots 'cause one guy is going to be always on holiday or going to flight training. For G650, you have fixed costs and you have variable costs.

Your fixed cost is the pilot salary, insurance, hanger; that number is about a million, too. Okay, variable cost, every hour you f...

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