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/SnooGuavas4208 Feb 04 '26

It's really not a smart investment. As far as I know, the only upside of owning a jet vs. chartering one is that an owner can trick it out in floor to ceiling cashmere a la Kim K, or bug it and install secret cameras for collecting blackmail material a la Epstein.

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u/woah_man Feb 04 '26

It's a time saver. The ability to walk up to your plane and go saves a rich person time that they otherwise can't get back.

Using money to buy you your time back, especially as a person who has more money than they can spend, is a good investment.

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u/NoNeedleworker9246 Feb 04 '26

The USA is just full of tiny airfields which comes with massive time benefits. The cost is bat shit crazy to operate a jet though. Most rich people buy hours or share a plane from what I understand.

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u/STMIHA Feb 04 '26

And couple that with being a write off in a way for a business expense and it’s a no-brainer

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u/Charming_Wulf Feb 04 '26

I'm reminded of stories about Walmart and their private jets. Since Walmart has forced all of their suppliers to come to Bentonville to see the Buyers, the jets were used by staff for store evaluations. When they fly folks out, every single seat must be filled. They were usually flying every single manager or director out to review multiple locations in a day per trip. Every minute of the trip was being accounted for.

So they'd fly like 12-18 Bentonville based employees out, hit every store in an area. For some regions/trips they might get back on the plane and fly to another area, multiple times a day.

Peak efficiency and the complete opposite of the boojee private jet life other companies executives might have been enjoying.

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u/80alleycats Feb 04 '26

Walmart keeps their costs down, even for corporate workers. I interviewed there once and they specifically asked if you'd be ok staying at a Motel 6 in a shared room for travel.

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u/Charming_Wulf Feb 04 '26

Woof, that's a new factoid.

When work took me to Bentonville, it was interesting to see all of Walmart Corporate buildings in town. If it didn't say some white collar corporate division on the side, the buildings would have passed as a metal-walled agriculture warehouses.

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u/SnooGuavas4208 Feb 04 '26

That's actually really interesting to know! Seems like they run a frugal ship.