It’s safe to say that Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page can afford to live large these days. Here’s proof. Not content with a cramped and mundane private charter jet, Sergey and Larry have gone whole hog, ponying up big bucks for a whale-like but well-traveled Boeing 767-200. While it might seem excessive at first, crisscrossing the globe in a pimped out private 767-200 with an entourage could actually be cost-effective, or so they say …

Now one day, private jet charter might be affordable for the masses … or at least the middle class. But when the new generation of air taxis finally take flight, they’ll be a far cry from Sergey and Larry’s monster jet, in both level of comfort and passenger capacity. The Avocet ProJet, for example, will accommodate four to five passengers. The Eclipse 500 has a seating capacity of six. Both are just a tiny fraction of the capacity of the Google founders’ 767-200.

Of course, all of that capacity comes at a price and with runway length limitations. The ProJet only needs 3,000 feet to take off and land.

Maybe Sergey and Larry will pack one of these little babies as a dingy.

Mere mortal companies needn’t feel shut out of the world of private jet travel as they wait for flocks of Avocet ProJets and Eclipse 500s to take off. Net Jet’s Marquis Jet Card sells 25-hour chunks of time on Citation V Ultras, Raytheon Hawker 1000s, and Gulfstream Vs for a (healthy) chunk of change.

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