It’s not every morning that you’re in the departure lounge at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, chatting to one of the two pilots who are going to fly you to St Moritz in a private jet. At least not for me. Sipping my cappuccino as the first rays of sun crested the control tower, I asked Gavin Scott, the captain, casually, “So, how long does it take to learn to fly one of these things?” By “things”, I was referring to Flexjet’s swish Gulfstream G650 that would be whisking me to the Swiss Alps late last month for the 39th Snow Polo World Cup, where Flexjet was fielding a team. “About a month,” said Gavin cheerfully. But the airstrip at Samedan, the closest to the uber-glamorous Swiss resort,
