Sir Bob Jones has taken delivery of his own jet, less than three months after being ejected from an Air New Zealand flight.

Jones' new Cessna Citation Mustang, which has an estimated price tag of between $2 million and $2.5million, touched down in the capital last week, after a long-haul flight from the United States.

And it seems its arrival has come not a moment too soon.

"I should have done this years ago," he wrote in his latest National Business Review column.

"Like the prime minister, I too am 'not a particularly lavish guy' but, my God, there are limits.

"For more than half a century I've travelled everywhere – but no airline, not even in the worst Soviet Union days, matches the infantile nappy-statism of an Auckland-Wellington Air New Zealand flight."

Jones was escorted off such a flight in May for not following crew instructions – or as he put it in his column: "The incessant and unnecessary hostess babble over the intercom, the utterly childish and pointless screeching safety video, the absurd seat-by-seat check that we're an inch or two upright at exactly 20 minutes before landing, and worst of all, the 'This is your captain speaking'."

And his response to the arrival of his own twin-engined jet was: "Oh glory; my self-respect finally regained.

"No unnecessary 20-minute X-ray queues, no holding pens and more queues to board, no sitting around for five minutes after landing before the doors are opened, nor long baggage waits amidst the sunglasses-topped cellphone bawlers."

Instead, he drove to the Wellington hangar, threw his bags on board and took off immediately. The exact same process occurred on the return flight.

"Two horrific hours saved. I should have done this years ago."

A spokeswoman at Jones' office said he did not want to comment any further on his latest purchase.

The jet is 12 metres long, has a wingspan of 13 metres and cruises along at 630kmh, with a top speed of 772kmh.

Last week, Jones was listed at No 15 on the latest NBR Rich List, with an estimated wealth of $620m.