• @frunch
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    33 hours ago

    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.”

      • @frunch
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        32 hours ago

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

  • @ladicius
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    5 hours ago

    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.

      • HobbitFoot
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        11 hour ago

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

      • @ladicius
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        11 hour ago

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

  • @RedditWanderer
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    107 hours ago

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