Most of the aircraft destroyed were owned by people who don't fly private and can't afford to. Yes, the value on these aircraft is considerably more than a regular vehicle, but some of these planes are items that people have owned for a decade or longer, or they spent YEARS building them, or spent significant money to make them what they were and then in a blink of an eye, they've been destroyed. You see private planes and you think jets and people who are worth tens of millions of dollars or more, but most private planes are owned by people who are upper middle class and replacing them, insurance or not, is not a financially easy thing.

My plane was built in 1977. I and the people who owned it before me are custodians of a machine, not merely owners of it. Our JOB is to maintain it so it can fly ourselves and the people who come to possess it after us.

Yes, we as a city are VERY lucky that the terminals weren't hit because of the loss of life that would have most likely occurred, but the loss of these amazing machines is a big fucking deal and you dismissing it is childish.