[gordner]

The 650 uses about 6000 feet for take off, In our config the 737 with typical load takes approx. 7000, so definitely a difference, but not a massive one that knocks out a ton of destination airports.

Best bang for the buck for a new corporate right now is probably the legacy line from Embraer. The costs are low overall, purchase and DOC, but the maintenance guys don't love them so far, they do have a few teething pains in operation so far but that will improve. It can also be interesting dealing with Brazil for support, like good luck if there is a soccer game on lol, but overall it is a very impressive package. Their corporate version of their Embraer 175 RJ should really be something, massive cabin size relatively speaking.
Bombardier make a fantastic product, but maintenance costs second to Gulfstream pretty much.

At the end of the day, coming from in the industry, even were I a billionaire I would not own a corporate jet, I would get a platinum Jet card and charter as required. That way you get an aircraft commensurate with the task at hand. Our Gulfstream owners have had to charter smaller airplanes at the other end sometimes to be able to land where they want to go.

And make no mistake, for this class of aircraft millionaire does not cut it, buying one of these things is the easy part, maintaining and hangaring are huge. A G650 size aircraft costs almost 30K Canadian a month just to park inside......average leg burns 70K in fuel, and that is just touching the peak of all the costs involved.