Rumours, legends and things people swear are true
Every private-jet story you have heard at a dinner party — the gold-plated 747, the $3,000 biscuits, the jet that outclimbs a fighter — checked, and labelled honestly.
“Jet lag is much milder on a private jet.”
Manufacturers make a real case: newer jets pressurise the cabin to a lower 'altitude' (as low as 2,800–4,800 ft versus 6,000–8,000 ft on most airliners), pump in 100% fresh air, keep humidity higher and let you lie flat. Those things demonstrably reduce fatigue and dehydration. Whether they reduce *jet lag* — which is a circadian-rhythm problem caused by crossing time zones — is much less certain.
“On private jets the dogs get their own leather seats.”
They often do, in the sense that nobody stops a Labrador from occupying a seat with a blanket on it. But no business-jet seat is certified for an animal, so a pet is not legally 'seated' for take-off and landing; operators ask for a harness, carrier or a person holding a small animal, and many insist larger dogs travel on the floor or in a crate at those phases. In cruise, the dog goes wherever the owner allows. Instagram is showing you cruise.