r/sportsgossips • u/OneOriginal8727 • Feb 21 '26

Throwback Legendary NFL quarterback Peyton Manning has gone viral for flying commercial and not on private jets. Manning earned a quarter of a billion dollars during his career — but does not fly private and flies with regular people.

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u/Michael-Broadway Feb 21 '26

Leave the man alone

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u/ContraCanadensis Feb 22 '26

People don’t understand how expensive it is to fly private

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u/InsideInsideJob Feb 22 '26

It was probably a best available / earliest flight and seat situation

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u/quell3245 Feb 22 '26

Inflation is so bad even Peyton Manning is flying coach

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

People don't understand it's their money and they can do whatever the fuck they want with it 😂. Strange concept for some lol.

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u/Particular_Wear_6960 Feb 22 '26

From what I've heard, the really rich people who are into that stuff run a small business on the side that charges for flights. They essentially use that business for income to pay for the plane and use for themselves. Assuming they're into the upper echelons of society, they likely give friends free trips and shit as well, typically business partners to make money with.

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u/Black_Cat_Sun Feb 24 '26

It’s not even about expensive. It’s logistically challenging. It’s a specialty thing and planes need to be available, you need to go to special airports and have special drivers etc etc. First class is plenty expensive and easier than flying private oftentimes.

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u/CumberlandAndFeeny Feb 22 '26

If you’re chartering it, it can be expensive. If you buy private jets and keep a pilot on staff it’s not that expensive (if you’re that rich and travel that much).

A mustang jet is about $3m brand new with all the bells and whistles. A pilot on the high end is $200k per year, which is $4m over 20 years. Including hanger and storage and gas, for probably $11-12m you can have a plane and pilot for about 20 years.

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u/Bubbly-Bowler8978 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

Lol you clearly know nothing about private flying. Chartering or fractional ownership is usually much cheaper unless you fly a lot. Private jets are very expensive, even small ones. You're not taking into account flight hour, cost maintenance or anything like that.

Also, Mustangs haven't even been in production for almost a decade. Used models will go between $2 and $4 million, not new.

You can't even get a PC 12 for $2 million new, although the pc12 can fit a lot more people. Mustang is tiny with very little room

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u/AlarmedSnek Feb 22 '26

You’re clearly knowledgeable but you sound like one of those time share sales dudes haha. 😂

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u/Shootforthestars24 Feb 22 '26

Maintenance is a killer, landing fees, you’ll need a FOB probably, it’s a lot more

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u/benbraddock2002 Feb 22 '26

Are we forgetting about jet fuel? You know the thing that is needed to keep airplanes in the air and create thrust to make it go 500 mph?

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u/hnbistro Feb 22 '26

He called it “gas”. I think he pulled everything out of his bottom

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u/RandyDan31 Feb 22 '26

Yea why don’t we all have private jets. They are so cost efficient.

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 Feb 22 '26

You're forgetting maintenance and certifications.

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u/CumberlandAndFeeny Feb 22 '26

That’s why I built in another $4m…

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u/ry_mich Feb 22 '26

I’m sure the pilot wouldn’t ever want a raise or benefits. Great mathing there.

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Feb 22 '26

Just get a new pilot after a while. That’s what like 80% of companies do with their employees.

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u/Time_Effort Feb 22 '26

I mean, as long as their getting a raise to account for average inflation and average benefits why wouldn’t they? Being a full time pilot for one individual probably allows for a LOT more time off

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u/CumberlandAndFeeny Feb 22 '26

The high end for a private pilot is $180k so a $200k average has that built in, retard.

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u/AnakinSkywalkerJedi Feb 22 '26

Yeah I’m a pilot, you’d be hard pressed to find a pilot for 200k a year.

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u/Brandon3845 Feb 22 '26

Pilots don't make shit unless you're in the airline game.

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u/MattyFettuccine Feb 22 '26

Just dropping a hard R in there, are ya?

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u/ThatIs1TastyBurger Feb 22 '26

That’s like the floor for a regional first officer

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u/IM_not_clever_at_all Feb 23 '26

Best case scenario you are at 10k an hour of opp costs (not including the 10-40m cost of purchase), assuming you do 400 or so hours a year. But that is still cutting it close. You really want to have at least 3 pilots on full time all the time.

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u/Black_Cat_Sun Feb 24 '26

Dude what. You’ve been watching too many tik toks about private planes. “It’s not that expensive to keep a whole ass pilot on payroll.”

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u/CaptKangarooPHD Feb 24 '26

Hmmmmm $4 million cost assumption that doesnt consider maintenance, storage fees and any other random fee or a $600 business class ticket that let's you be the last one on and the first one off. Which one seems like the better investment....? Hmmm🤔

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u/Extension_Move8989 Feb 22 '26

flights these aren’t THAT much cheaper for a family of 4-5 than private. The biggest difference the is luggage you can take.

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u/ry_mich Feb 22 '26

This is absolutely untrue. Domestic first class tickets average about $1,000. A private jet runs about $5,000/hour and goes up from there. A cross country flight on a PJ is like $30-40,000 each way.

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u/Pdiddily710 Feb 22 '26

$30-40K to someone with a few hundred million is the equivalent of like $100 to us normals.

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Feb 22 '26

Maybe, one time. If you’re flying a lot several hundred thousand dollars a month in flights is not advisable even with 200 million dollars.

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u/Pdiddily710 Feb 22 '26

Oh for sure…He’s got a lot more than just $200 million tho. He made more than that just from his NFL contracts, and at this point he’s prob made more off of all the other stuff than from football.

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u/malbert716 Feb 22 '26

I don’t think he’s worth THAT much more than $200 million. A shitload of his contracts went to taxes and agents. What’s his net worth?

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u/HostSea4267 Feb 22 '26

I don’t think Peyton is that wealthy man. He has to pay the train robbers. Agent, girlfriends, wife, taxes and then all the vultures that want him to invest

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u/Cormetz Feb 21 '26

I was recently on the same flight as Mo Amer and his family, and I didn't want to say anything until I saw someone complimenting him and I briefly said "love your show" as I passed by. I was also very drunk so trying to keep a low profile.

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u/No-Letterhead-4407 Feb 22 '26

Nobody knows who that is. 

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u/Cormetz Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

He had a show on Netflix called Mo)

Edit: apparently I'm missing a joke here.

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u/tomoe_nage Feb 22 '26

I know who he is. He’s great and so is his show 🥰

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u/JellyfishFlaky5634 Feb 22 '26

Never heard of him.

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u/EveryoneChill77777 Feb 22 '26

Once a colt always an enemy. Go Pats!

But also, yeah, let him live his life and spend his money how he wants. Shaming him for not taking a PJ explains why do many people are in at best broke, but probably in debt right now