Chartering a private jet would have cost him minimum $4k/per flight hour It was all for show. He never even went in the plane. Remember in his videos how he talks about creating an illusion is in bodybuilding. It's not just about his body, but about other things too. Such as making people believe you are traveling in private jets. He's a known lyer.
rudee excellent point, he also created the illusion to people he competed at the olympia because of his love for bodybuilding and he wanted to save the show, when in reality
it was a marketing scam to sell his supplement, and uncrowned king hoodies, and get signed to md, to write artilces no one reads