It is well beyond time to raise awareness and make it illegal for the rich to use their jets for short excursions, as these private planes contribute to global warming and cause environmental damage.
According to Jack Sweeney, who manages a Twitter feed tracking Elon Musk’s private jet’s travel, it flew 134 times in 2022.
Sweeney, the college student who began tracking the jet in 2020, gathered the data for the billionaire’s Gulfstream G650ER, N628TS. However, the data does not reveal if Musk was on board.
According to the data, Musk was most likely to have utilized his private jet to go to Qatar for the soccer World Cup final in December. In addition, the jet visited Brazil, France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Its longest flight was from Mykonos, Greece, to Austin, Texas, on July 18. The shortest trip of the plane lasted roughly six minutes, and data reveal that it remained at Long Beach Airport.
Musk threatened to sue Sweeney in December for disclosing his location, claiming it placed his two-year-old kid at risk. However, Sweeney revealed to Insider that Musk’s threat didn’t concern him.
Sweeney gathers and posts public flight data that would otherwise be available on the aircraft-tracking website ADS-B Exchange. He claimed to Insider that if Musk had paid him the $50,000 he had asked for to close the account, which is a trifle compared to the $2.6 million yearly cost to keep the jet, he might have avoided the public attention his account garnered.
After Twitter’s doxxing policy changed, Sweeney’s @ElonJet account was permanently banned. As a result, he developed @ElonJetNext, which posts the same information with a 24-hour delay.
