If your private jet charter doesn’t include a wide variety of in flight movie choices, they should. As a matter of fact, you should insist on it. While the price of flying on a private jet is much less than what it has been in the past, especially as compared to other forms of air travel, you still pay enough that you should expect entertainment as part of the service.
If you’re flying on a private jet charter, why not consider watching a movie involving jet airplanes? While everyone has different one that they like more than others, here are seven of our favorite movies involving jets.
- Top Gun. This is arguably the best movie of any genre to come out of the ‘80s. It instantly transformed the military from something to be avoided if possible to something pretty cool to be involved in. The aerial combat footage is awesome, and Kelly McGillis is smokin’ hot as well. Is it wrong that the fact she swung the other way only serves to make her hotter?
- Airplane. And Airplane II, for that matter. The basic idea of this farce is that half of the passengers and most of the crew (including the pilot and copilot) get deathly ill from eating tainted airline food and the plane needs to be landed by a former military pilot who hasn’t flown in years. While it probably won’t inspire you to want to eat the airline’s food, it’s good for a few laughs during the flight.
- Transformers. Most of the evil “robots in disguise” are jet fighters of one sort or another. If you’re in the mood to see some of your favorite childhood toys blow the crap out of each other and half of the planet, this would be an excellent in flight choice. Spoiler: the really cool jets lose to a lame-o oversized Tonka truck.
- Jet Pilot. One of the Duke’s lesser known films, this one is from 1957, making it the oldest on our list. The movie stars John Wayne as a jet fighter pilot in the fledgling Air Force opposite Janet Leigh as a Soviet defector.
- Snakes on a Plane. Hopefully, there won’t be any snakes on your private jet charter except on the movie screen. This one’s a bit corny, but worth watching if you want a funny and mildly scary flick.
- Iron Eagle. This one was released the same year as Top Gun. It isn’t quite as good, but if you have a long flight, you could watch its three sequels along with it.
- An Officer and a Gentleman. This one doesn’t exactly showcase jets, but somewhere underneath the romantic drama, there is a good deal of competition amongst the main characters for the privilege of flying Navy jet fighters.
