What emissions? Elon Musk’s non-public jet made greater than 130 flights in 2022

Tesla chief Elon Musk clocked up loads of frequent flyer factors – and greater than 1895 tonnes of carbon-dioxide emissions – on his non-public plane final 12 months.

His private jet, a Gulfstream G650ER with the decision signal and tail quantity N628TS, accomplished a complete of 134 flights in 2022, based on data compiled by Jack Sweeney, who runs a Twitter account monitoring its actions.

The jet price an estimated $US2.6 million to function, together with $US1.1 million for gasoline and different operating prices, and was chargeable for creating almost 1900 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, based on Enterprise Insider.

It might probably fly as much as 13,900 kilometres between refuelling, sufficient for a continuous journey from Sydney to Los Angeles.

Mr Sweeney’s monitoring data – @ElonJetNexDay – doesn’t embrace whether or not Mr Musk was on the jet, the small print of different passengers, or the precise distances travelled.

The info additionally has a one-day delay after Mr Sweeney’s unique real-time account was suspended final 12 months by Twitter as a result of it was claimed to be a possible safety risk to Mr Musk and his household.

It was additionally prone to have taken Mr Musk to the soccer World Cup closing in Qatar in December 2022.

Its longest flight, recorded on July 18 2022, was from Mykonos in Greece to Austin, Texas. Mr Musk is prone to have been on board as he was pictured in Greece two days earlier. 

In line with the statistics, probably the most frequent locations for the Gulfstream jet included Los Angeles, and Austin and Brownsville in Texas, all within the US.