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[–] frunch 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Here's an article detailing some of the shortest flights celebrities have been criticized for taking:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/kylie-jenner-short-private-jet-flights-super-rich-climate-crisis

A taste from the article, detailing the excesses of 24-year-old influencer Kylie Jenner:

"According to an automated Twitter account that tracks celebrity flights based on transponders and tail fin marking, Jenner’s flight on 12 July lasted just 17 minutes, taking her from Van Nuys in Los Angeles to the nearby town of Camarillo. The model had earlier taken a 27-minute trip in her jet, a $72m Bombardier BD 700, to Van Nuys from Thermal, California." 

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

a 72m Bombardier

Influencers make multiple tens of millions now?

[–] frunch 2 points 43 minutes ago

She does, somehow. At 27 years of age her estimated worth is apparently around $710,000,000

[–] ladicius 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It found almost half the jets travelled less than 500km and 900,000 were used “like taxis” for trips of less than 50km.

Less than 50 kilometres. With a jet. Let that level of misanthropic assholery sink in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I didn’t know that there even are that many airports so close to each other…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

A lot of major cities will have a lot of smaller general aviation airports next to each other.

[–] ladicius 1 points 28 minutes ago

Anything can be an airport if you are ~~suicidal~~ rich enough.

[–] RedditWanderer 10 points 6 hours ago

Definitely not by design, as the rich do whatever they want and push austerity on the rest.

[–] Shizu 2 points 7 hours ago