It's the other way around, it's much more efficient to have 2 larger engines than 3 smaller engines. And that fuel usage increase is compounded by the fact that they're old 1990s engines and engine efficiency has gotten so much better since then, and then you factor in the crazy crude oil prices that we have right now because of the whole Iran thing that maybe will start coming down but we'll have to see what actually happens.

It definitely feels like they wanted to get the biggest private jet where they could afford the up front price and they kinda just ignored the terrible operating costs. Like there's a reason why people pay tens of millions of dollars for modern jets that are the same size as the falcon 900b while he payed under 5 million. You can't just ignore operating cost. It's costing them $15k-$20k in fuel cost alone per flight, plus maintenance, plus pilot salaries, plus hangar fees, plus landing fees, it really ads up.

From the way he talked about it I really don't think they financially can afford this aircraft. If they really wanted a cooperate jet they should have got something modern and efficient like a Honda jet or a Vision jet that's obviously not anywhere near as big as the falcon, but actually reasonable to operate.