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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | For most of us, the airport is not an enjoyable place. |
0:07.0 | We have to get there hours before our flight takes off. |
0:10.0 | We stand in long lines to check our bags, |
0:13.0 | we're herded through body scanners, shoeless, and confused. |
0:17.0 | And on the plane, we're serenated by crying babies |
0:21.0 | and crushed by the guy in front of us who insists on reclining his chair. |
0:26.6 | But for the privileged view, there's a parallel universe where none of these problems exist, where traveling by air is a breeze. |
0:38.1 | You pull the car right up to the plane. There's somebody waiting outside for you. |
0:42.1 | They know exactly where you're going. |
0:44.4 | They're greeting you, grabbing your bags. There's a red carpet waiting as you enter the doorway to the plane and you're on your way. |
0:51.6 | That's Anthony Tivnan. He runs a private jet company in Boston. |
0:55.7 | You're sitting in a 30-40 million dollar airplane with just your family watching |
1:00.4 | whatever you want to watch, listening to whatever you want to listen to. |
1:03.5 | It's Ritz-Coulton, it's four seasons. |
1:05.8 | There's a beautiful setup. |
1:07.1 | If you want to grab a drink, champagne, scotch, |
1:09.5 | you can have an outstanding dinner, three, four, five course meals, and then you can head to the rear of the cabin |
1:15.3 | and have a full-size bed made up and sleep for the rest of the flight. |
1:19.7 | Executives and celebrities shell out millions of dollars for regular access to this convenience. |
1:27.0 | But critics say we are paying for it too. They don't pay the real costs of their airspace use. They don't pay the real costs of their |
1:37.2 | airspace use. They don't pay the real costs of their ecological emissions. You're really talking about the 0.001 percent, the |
1:45.8 | ultra wealthy that are the beneficiaries of the system that the rest of us subsidize. |
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