I believe anyone who loves travel and/or has frequent business travel and has flown in a cabin class private jet would answer yes.
Prior experience is important. We don’t know what we don’t know. A private airliner (can be luxurious, or the same as commercial), small jet, and cabin-class jet are all different, as is owning versus chartering. The possible spectrum of benefits includes:
Schedule – on your airplane you control the schedule. Text your pilot, say you want to fly in 2 hours—off you go. Charter is different. Much more schedule control than commercial, yet still many hours or days of notice. Owning your own is the ultimate freedom. Life changing.
Efficiency – In your airplane, you’re airborne 10 minutes after airport arrival. You can park your car in your hangar. Charter isn’t the same—it still removes most of the overhead, stress and life-rejiggering of commercial air—but not the same as yourplane.
Civility – No waiting in line and sticking your arms in the air like an apprehended criminal. No TSA officer power tripping on you. No finding that Pre or Clear isn’t at the airport you’re flying from (or is closed), and/or no priority line (or it’s just as long) and you’re in jeopardy of missing a flight. There is no missing the flight. More important than ever since consolidation—rescheduling a flight is a license for airlines to joyfully jam a stick up your ass and extract more dollars and mental energy from you (unless you’re top tier frequent flier).
Utility & Comfort – the generality of “private jet” factors large in mission and comfort.
This is a Lear 45 (the executive mailing tube):
This is a Challenger 604:
This is a G550
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This is a BBJ:
Where you can go, with how many friends/colleagues, and in what level of comfort all depends on which private jet. Also how much closer than commercial you will be on landing to your ultimate ground destination.
So in an Embraer Phenom 100, you can 3 friends can travel up and down the coasts in about 3 hours (1,000 nm). That’s about the limit of your range. NY to Miami. In a G550 you and a dozen friends can do the same trip in 2 hours and 20 minutes. Or decide to keep going south—all the way to Tierra del Fuego (and get there in about 13 hours).
If you own, you fly Part 91 and your pilot decides what’s possible— if the runway is contaminated and/or short and/or high it’s his call on whether it’s doable. You can get places that the exact same aircraft flying Part 135 can’t.
All that said, being wealthy is a matter of degree. There’s a base level of financial resources required to own a small self-piloted private jet. It’s another level entirely for a cabin-class dual pilot jet. There’s also whether it makes financial sense. You can have all the money in the world and still decide it makes sense to charter because of your specific situation. Or even fly commercial. Spending my own money, if time allows, I’d choose Emirates 1st (etc) over private for some long trips.
Personally, yes, I would like to own an ultra long-range, cabin-class private jet — a Falcon 8x ideally. I’m working to get there. Owning a smaller one is situational.