"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
nk.net...
So is the "crew expense" include their salary and benefits or is it only
meals, hotels. rental car ect? If the plane fly's 500hrs a year that is
only
$67.5k for two pilots, their recurrent training (training will cost many
thousand per year and they will need transportation, hotel, meals ect for
the week that they are training) and a flight attendant? Even at
1000hrs/yr
the numbers don't work. The other bugaboo for jets is that on short trips,
fuel burn can be double. I'm not debating the figures since I don't have a
G-III but they seem low compared to aircraft I am familiar with.

For a Citation III :
http://www.omnijet.com/database/cit3...t3710costs.xls


When I was a student pilot, I saw an ad for a Commander 114B that claimed
a
cost of ownership of $2000/month. I called them to buy one and they
explained that the $2000 figure was after tax if you lived in the highest
tax jurisdiction. It also assumed that you got great deals on fuel and
maintenance. I think it also was net of the airline fares that you saved
by
flying yourself. I have been skeptical of suspiciously low cost claims
ever
since.

Notice they ALWAYS use the caveat "As little as $xxxx per month".

Expect the same hype when dealing with car salesmen as when dealing with
aircraft salesmen.

Or any salesman for that matter, or politicians...