Celebrities frequently spark a lot of controversy online with their extravagant lifestyles. This summer Kyle Jenner received a lot of backlash for taking her private jet for a flight of only 12 minutes. The same trip would have only been a 40km drive. Just a little later, she posted a picture with her boyfriend Travis Scott in front of their two private jets with the caption “you wanna take mine or yours ?”
This got a lot of people wondering how much celebrities pollute with their private jets. Yard decided to find out. They analysed data from the Celebrity Jets twitter account, that automatically follows big names’ private jets.
Collecting data from over 1,500 flights, they revealed the 10 most polluting private jets. Their research shows that, from January to July 2022, celebrities have emitted 3376.64 tonnes CO2 each only from flying with their planes. To put that in perspective, the average person only emits 7 tonnes of CO2 in an entire year.
Here is what Yard’s research revealed:
1. Taylor Swift
- 170 flights
- Total flight time: 22,923 minutes – 15.9 days
- Average flight time: 80 minutes
- CO2 emissions: 8,293.54 tonnes
Following the publication, one of Taylor Swift’s representatives said: “Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.”
2. Floyd Mayweather
- 177 flights
- CO2 emissions: 7,076.8 tonnes
3. Jay-Z
- 136 flights
- Total flight time: 19,296 minutes – 13.4 days
- Average flight time: 67 minutes
- CO2 emissions: 6,981.3 tonnes
After the publication was released, a lawyer for Jay-Z told The Washington Post the rapper does not own the private jet in question. CelebJets and Yard attributed the jet to Jay-Z as according to news sources, he had requested the PUMA jet as part of his sign-up deal to become the creative director of Puma basketball, Yard revealed. The Puma jet’s tail numbers are N444SC at Jay-Z’s request. N, the standard US private jet registration code, 444, referring to his album of the same name and SC for his birth name, Shawn Carter.
4. Alex Rodriguez
- 106 flights
- Total flight time: 8,480 minutes – 5.9 days
- Average flight time: 80 minutes
- CO2 emissions: 5,342.7 tonnes
5. Blake Shelton
- 111 flights
- Total flight time: 12,424 minutes – 8.6 days
- Average flight time: 64.4 minutes
- CO2 emissions: 4,495 tonnes
6. Steven Spielberg
- 61 flights
- Total flight time: 12,341 minutes – 8.6 days
- Average flight time: 107 minutes
- CO2 emissions: 4,465 tonnes
7. Kim Kardashian
- 57 flights
- Total flight time: 4,873 minutes – 3.4 days
- Average flight time: 85.5 minutes
- CO2 emissions: 4,268.5 tonnes
8. Mark Wahlberg
- 101 flights
- Total flight time: 10,428 minutes – 7.2 days
- Average flight time: 117.5 minutes
- CO2 emissions: 3,772.85 tonnes
9. Oprah Winfrey
- 68 flights
- Total flight time: 5,516.8 minutes – 3.8 days
- Average flight time: 81 minutes
- CO2 emissions: 3,493.17 tonnes
10. Travis Scott
- Total flight time: 8,384 minutes – 5.8 days
- CO2 emissions: 3,033.3 tonnes
