private jet travel

NetJets, a private aviation company selling fractional ownership in its planes, announced Thursday that it would buy Marquis Jet, a private jet cards company that sells the use of NetJets's planes in 25-hour blocks. Marquis Jet becomes a subsidiary of NetJets, itself owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

The graduating class of Duke University this year had the privilege of Oprah giving their commencement speech. Her advice to the class of 2009: seriously, being rich is really cool because you can own a ton of mansions and fly around on a private jet. Well at least she's honest. But is...