It shouldn't be taken literal. He doesn't mean that everyone has days where they fly at 7am from Newark to Tampa and back, or between any other cities for that matter. It's that everybody has days from time to that that are jam-packed from morning till evening, doing whatever.
You're assuming that because you don't have days where you've got to travel several hundred miles an then back that nobody else does...or should.
You're assuming that you know the context of the meeting in order to judge the trip as frivolous.
You're assuming that without the OP getting on the jet, it doesn't make the trip.
You're assuming that you know the decision stack that led to Morton's showing up with the steak.