Looking at the recent replies within this thread, this is a waste of money. No one wants to be on a 30 year old private plane. To even fly that plane requires additional costs that just doesn't make it worth using. I do know that Linus is the kind of person to travel to China time to time so it could be useful there but renting a private plane with a crew is a better business expense than owning a run down private jet. He has got to be at that age where he tries justifying with dumb excuses on why he should own an object of value. I believe this is called a mid-life crisis.
He can't even do that. The range on a dassault 900b is 7,400km. Vancouver to Shangai is 9,000km
He could do Vancouver to Honolulu at 4,300km for a layover to refuel, and then Honolulu to Shanghai for another 7,900km
But that's still 12,000km one way, and 13 hours of flight time at max cruise(926km/hr). Considering paying for the fuel, still needing to do a layover, and the flight crew, he'd be better off just getting a business class commercial flight. Having a private corporate jet could make sense when you've got executives that need to be in one part of the country or another on a day to day basis, but that's not what LTT does.
Note that the 2nd portion of the right column is
hourly costs. That 26 hours of flight from Vancouver to Shanghai and back, if this estimate is correct comes out to 124,000. or at a max of 16 passengers, 7,800 per person and of course it only gets worse the fewer people that go. Only 8 people? 15,600 per person. Again, just the hourly costs for a round trip flight from Canada to China.
Right now business class flights from Vancouver to Shanghai round trip, nonstop can be done for $7,881 so that's already better than his 7,800 per person for nonstop flights. The moment you allow a layover(usually Hongkong, Japan, or South Korea) that price plummets to $3,400-$4000. And again, this is international business class. So decent seats, in flight meals, better entertainment, booze, etc.
And yes of course just chartering a fucking jet would still be a perfectly good option and still be cheaper avoiding all of the fixed annual costs of ownership.
There is zero sensible reason to have bought the thing other than his personal midlife crisis, and buying some 35 year old rickety bullshit with gold plated sinks and ash trays just looks lame to anyone who bothers to look into this shit. It's like having the nicest 2 story mobile home and a used rolls royce for the best place in the trailer park.