This should be illegal.
The flying or the tracking?
Celebrity Flights
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#12I kinda find it creepy tracking people’s flights. Besides, some jet owners charter out their planes when not in use, so it’s incorrect to attribute all the miles to them.
I think there's a hard public interest in tracking flights. They're so safe these days that we can kind of forget that we're talking about moving multi-ton vehicles over people's homes, churches, and schools, where anything going wrong can result in significant loss of life and property damage... At the very least, I want to know who and when as a societal tradeoff for the privilege of using the air over our heads freely.
(Also, that vested interest has been demonstrated in recent history. Keep in mind that it was ultimately plane-spotters who originally busted the extraordinary rendition policy of the US government open... They noticed planes had changed their regular flight patterns significantly).
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#13This should be illegal.
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#14170 flights in a year averaging 200 minutes in air for... kim kardashian? What the heck does she need to fly for so far every other day?
This is basically their version of commuting.
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#15It would be equally important to make a graph of how much CO2 they offset by paying taxes, even if only theoretically.
Interesting. Outside of that, do any of these people do any other activities that offset the damage they do with their private jets? Just wondering because this is such blatant clickbait material for an editorial, I won’t be surprised if an article about it is being written right now.
Offsetting your damage doesn't change the fact that you are causing damage. What would be good is if these people stopped flying around the billionaire circuit on private jets _and_ paid their fair share of taxes but that's too much to ask these days.
I do agree having a separate list of who pays the most in taxes relative to wealth/income would be interesting but also obviously less accurat.
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#16Is this tracking a specific jet associated with a person, or the person?
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#17170 flights in a year averaging 200 minutes in air for... kim kardashian? What the heck does she need to fly for so far every other day?
Looking at her flight log, my guess is the jet she owns is run by a company that rents it out to other people.
If that’s not the case, I have no idea why anyone would fly from Atlanta to Savannah and then depart again 2 hours later. Must be rented out to others
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#18Never heard of Kylie Jenner, turns out she is an air pollutant.
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#19170 flights in a year averaging 200 minutes in air for... kim kardashian? What the heck does she need to fly for so far every other day?
I would hate such a lifestyle. Also consider that she probably doesn't live near the airport so that's a lot of mostly wasted time per day.
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#20Pointing towards this to help reconcile some of the hypocrisy from celebrity messaging seems productive towards better discourse on climate change imo