It is 10 a.m. at Teterboro Airport, which sits just a few football fields away from MetLife Stadium, a mile or so off Route 17 in Moonachie, N.J.
This is where Jets owner Woody Johnson and his family, friends and closest business associates are convening for one of the most important road trips of the Jets season.
The inside of Johnson’s private jet — the very one that squired Brett Favre back and forth from Mississippi a few years ago — is a sanctuary for him, because as much as it’s about football, it’s about quality time with his family.
Johnson’s wife, Suzanne, their 5-year-old son, Brick, and his 90-year-old mother, Betty, who has as much spirit and bounce in her step as his young son, are among the passengers heading to FedEx Field in Landover, Md.
On this occasion, Johnson has invited The Post exclusively inside his world on a road trip game day, from a flight on his jet to his pregame rituals to the owner’s suite during the game and back.
Kickoff for Jets-Redskins is in three hours, at 1 p.m.
“I don’t wake up nervous on game days, but I express it differently,’’ Johnson says with a relaxed look that belies the anxiousness he surely has for this game his Jets absolutely must win.
It’s now 10:30 and, when the pilot deploys wheels down in the plane as it approaches BWI Airport, Johnson’s demeanor suddenly changes.
Johnson described the moment he feels the wheels go down as an adrenaline rush, a moment his anticipation for the game rises, because he knows he’s close to his destination, closer to game time.
It’s 11:45 and Johnson, as is his ritual, enters the Jets’ locker room to chat with Rex Ryan and general manager Mike Tannenbaum.
He never speaks to the players before the game, saying, “I don’t want to interfere with their preparation.’’
Johnson emerges from the locker room at 12:05 and walks through the tunnel onto the field, where Van Halen’s “Standing on top of the World’’ is blaring through the stadium speakers. He mingles with Jets fans along the sideline and in the stands, prompting a security man to remark, “I’ve never seen an owner do that before.’’
After another pregame visit to the locker room, Johnson is up in the owner’s suite in the time for the national anthem.
Though he sits with his son for the early part of the game — the Redskins are driving the ball down the throat of the Jets defense on the game’s opening drive — Johnson is soon where he always is: Standing in the suite, pacing and peering through his binoculars.
“I’m not a good host,’’ Johnson says apologetically. “I try to remind myself to be a little more gracious, but I’m so focused on the game.’’
The box is tense after that first Redskins touchdown, but when the Jets offense answer with a TD on the ensuing drive there’s a sense of relief — at least for a few moments.
The rest of the game features a lot of angst — until Mark Sanchez connects with Santonio Holmes for a 30-yard touchdown pass, one that gives the Jets their first lead of the game, a lead they would never relinquish.
“That,’’ Johnson says of the Sanchez pass that changed the game, “had to be one of the five best passes I’ve ever seen him throw. That was a professional pass.’’
The game ends at 4:15 and Johnson, who can think of only one road game he’s missed (Seattle in a snow storm in 2008), is where he always is — win or lose: at the doorway of the locker room greeting his players.
“You have to thank the players,’’ he says. “Some weeks it’s harder than others. But they put themselves I harm’s way. They know I want to win.’’
It’s 6 p.m. now and he’s back on the plane, ready to fly home.
Still basking in the glow of a fourth quarter in which the Jets turn a 16-13 deficit into a 34-19 win, you can see the satisfaction etched all over Johnson’s face as he sits with Suzanne and Brick on the plane ride back to New Jersey.
The plane lands at 6:40 at Teterboro. Johnson will sleep well. His Jets remain in the thick of the AFC playoff race.
“There’s no comparison to the feeling you have coming home after a win than after a loss,’’ he says. “Everyone is kind of worn out. You spend a lot of energy and emotion just being a fan and then you have a second wind after a win.’’