If you have $400,000 a year to burn, then you too can join celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Douglas and Bill Cosby as the newest member of Bermuda?s growing jet-set.

Anyone driving past Kindley Field Road can see that the number of jets coming to Bermuda is higher than ever before.

But if you want to join the secretive world that can fly to Paris for breakfast, followed by pub lunches in London and capped off with dancing in New York City all in one day, then there is an online aviation charter company that can make it all a reality.

Bermuda International Airport sources said 80 percent of the nearly 3,000 jets that landed in Bermuda in 2005 all belonged to the same company, NetJets, which has been offering the ?uber-rich a chance to buy fractional ownership of their corporate jets since 1986.

It sells timeshares from $406,250, according to its web-site, which equals a one-sixteenth interest in a Hawker 400XP aircraft, or the equivalent to 50 hours of annual flight time.

Just this one company has flown over 300,000 flights to over 140 countries in 2005, it said, and was bought by investor Warren Buffett in 1998, the same billionaire who donated $37 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates charity in June. But in order to get their own piece of the ultra-exclusive corporate jet market, a pair of Bermuda Aviation Services (BAS) employees said they want to develop their own private passenger terminal at Southside.

President of Sovereign Flight Support, Kenneth Burns Jr., said he wants to provide an opulent oasis on the airport tarmac.

?Oprah Winfrey, Condaleeza Rice, Michael Douglas, a lot of them come here that people don?t ever see,? Mr. Burns Jr. said. ?Bill Cosby has two jets.?

Mr. Burns Jr. said 2,865 corporate jets landed here in 2005 ? an average of 7.8 jets per day.

This was a 9.35 percent increase from 2004 when 2,620 jets touched down, he said.

The BAS worker also said he and Sovereign vice president Sheldon Steede, would offer five-star service at his proposed new terminal at the former US Base at No. 66, Southside Road, St. George?s.

?It will be a separate facility,? he said. ?When you walk in there is something about the ambience that soothes you.?

He said celebrities and business moguls may soon be enjoying plush, renovated interiors, including a water fall, should his Planning application prove successful.

The renovated building will also feature five new bathrooms and plush passenger lounges, he said,

It will also mean that the local jet-set and their entourages will no longer have to be carted around in BAS vans across the tarmac to clear Customs, he said, as Customs officials will have their own interview, search, storage and detainee rooms at the new terminal.

The ?uber-rich would even be able to access their cash before they get off the plane, he said, as an ATM machine would be right outside a concierge area.

But trying to get someone to say why they prefer the jet-set to flying coach was not easy ? after all, they are not called ?private? jets for nothing.

Former Bermuda Land Development Company (BLDC) chairman Geoffrey Elliott reportedly uses corporate jets but refused to comment when asked.

Instead he suggested contacting international business big wigs like ?the Brians,? former ACE Chairman Brian Duperreault and XL Capital chief executive Brian O?Hara.

Common sense said ?the Brians? would definitely be using upper-class wings to get to billion dollar business meetings or fly-in prospective clients.

However, neither ACE nor XL responded to queries about their jet-setting habits by yesterday, despite being asked on June 29.

Not to be discouraged, perhaps the boys on ?billionaires row,? including former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and two-time US presidential candidate Ross Perot, would divulge all about their jet-setting life-style.

Attempts were made to reach Mr. Perot and Mr. Berlusconi, however, somewhat unsurprisingly when investigating the world of the very upper-class, directory inquiries said their numbers were unlisted at the customers? request.

Not even outspoken politician Tourism and Transport Minister Dr. Ewart Brown would reveal the identities of the Island?s corporate jet users.

?For privacy and security reasons I am not able to name the specific movie stars, sports figures and corporate moguls who regularly use private jets to fly to Bermuda,? Dr. Brown said. ?But many are household names.?

But the Deputy Premier did say that the number of private jets landing here would continue to grow with the international business sector.

?More and more corporations are turning to private aviation as a means of saving valuable executive time and to avoid crowded airline terminals with their long lines etc.,? Dr. Brown said. ?Bermuda?s sustained growth as an international business centre, as well as its increasing popularity as a destination for conferences from the nearby northeast US means that we can expect private jet traffic to grow.?

He also said Bermuda had a large amount private jet traffic for an Island its size.

?Bermuda has a greater volume of private jet traffic due to the important business centre that the Island is,? he said. ?It is important to note that Bermuda is beyond the range of light, single-engine propeller aeroplanes and therefore doesn?t have recreational pilots flying in as do the Bahamas and Cayman.?

Dr. Brown also said that the airport could benefit from a new passenger terminal for private jets, adding that a lease with the Department of Airport Operations and the approval of the Legislature would be required before the passenger terminal could operate.

?The appearance and amenities offered at the existing executive jet facility are below the customary standards one would expect at a major international destination of Bermuda?s calibre,? he said. ?A new executive jet terminal is certainly desirable.?

But even the good doctor refused to comment about whether he knew about the amenities of the existing jet facility from first-hand experience.