If you were a passenger on a recent private jet flight out of Teterboro Airport — say, the June 6 Flexjet flight to Farnborough, near London, England — you would have been dropped at Flexjet’s private Teterboro lounge, and could have sunk into a comfortable couch to wait for fellow travelers to arrive, perhaps by helicopter from Manhattan.

You might have grabbed a free snack, dipped a spoon into a scoop of gelato. Perhaps you kicked back sipping a glass of Maker's Mark or French Sancerre.

When your fellow passengers arrived, you would have swept through the Flexjet lobby doors — no onerous wait in a TSA security line — and stepped briefly across the tarmac to a Gulfstream G450, its sleek fuselage punctuated by signature porthole windows.

On board, the cabin would seem more like a living

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