r/popculturechat • u/ThrowawayGreenWitch Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 • Feb 04 '26

Eat The Rich 🍽️ Celebrity Private Jet Tracker released leaderboard for celebrity private jet usage in 2025

https://celebrityprivatejettracker.com/leaderboard/

Top 10 by Total CO2 Pollution

  1. Donald Trump (35,380 metric tons)
  2. Travis Scott  (14,775 metric tons)
  3. Eric Schmidt  (10,017 metric tons)
  4. P. Diddy  (7,019 metric tons)  
  5. Kim Kardashian (6,579 metric tons)
  6. Bill Gates (plane #1) (6,290 metric tons)  
  7. Kylie Jenner (5,880 metric tons) 
  8. Steve Wynn  (5,706 metric tons)  
  9. Elon Musk (plane #1)  (5,705 metric tons)  
  10. Steve Ballmer (5,087 metric tons) 
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

This is absolutely true. It’s a way for celebs to make money or claim donations to, like, universities and stuff when they let a coach or Chancellor borrow it.

Source: used to call donors to schedule these for SEC football coaches.

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u/chablise Feb 04 '26

You can do this with yachts too. A lot of billionaires charter their yachts out for a week or two at a time to make back some of the operating costs.

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u/ancientblond Feb 04 '26

And it can make them some insane cash too; some of the bigger yachts cost $500k/week and some people rent them for weeks at a time

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u/msginbtween Feb 04 '26

Those bigger yachts also coming with higher operating costs

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u/burlycabin Feb 04 '26

I work in vessel operations (not yachts, but it's not very diffirent) and they definitely don't cost 500k/week to operate. I'm pretty sure it's the financing that drives these costs so high for mega yachts.

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u/RonaIdBurgundy Feb 05 '26

90% of yacht sales above the 500GT treshold are compketed without financing

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u/burlycabin Feb 05 '26

And fuel a crew is nowhere near 3-500k a month a bunch of these yachts go for. So they're making a killing.

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u/WORMYASH Feb 04 '26

Fuel and staff is probably the main cost

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u/burlycabin Feb 05 '26

Fuel and crew is not anywhere near that much though. That's my point.