Secrets of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's four private jets as they list one for $39m
Billionaire Jeff Bezos is selling one of his private jets - among the fastest in the world - for a mere $39 million.
A 14-seater Gulfstream G650ER, registered by the Amazon CEO in 2015, has just been listed on the aircraft sale website Controller.
The pristine jet boasts a kitchen, multiple lavish single seater chairs, ATG4000 WIFI and tons of storage space.
Furthermore, the aircraft also comes with two bathrooms and a full toilet for crew members as well as two full couches that can turn into beds.
Listing photos show beige and brown interiors all through out the plane with subtle features.
According to Controller, the aircraft also has a meeting room and three 26-inch HD LCD monitors as well as one 17 inch HD LCD monitor.
In comparison, a brand new Gulfstream G650ER costs $65 million, according to the Business Insider.
Along with the 2015 G650ER, Bezos also owns another G650ER and a Pilatus PC-24. He added the latest Gulfstream G700 to his collection this August for $80 million.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos is selling a 14-seater Gulfstream G650ER, one of his private and the fastest jets in the world for a mere $39 million. Pictured here with fiancée Lauren Sanchez at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
The G650ER, registered by the Amazon CEO in 2015, has just been listed on the aircraft sale website Controller
The billionaire and fiancée Lauren Sanchez also own a Bell 429 Helicopter, PC-24 jet and an Airbus Helicopter, according to jet-tracking lover Jack Sweeney.
Based on JetSpy data acquired by the Insider, the 2015 jet has flown 224 hours across 73 flights in 2024 - costing about $677,000 in fuel and emitting about 1,100 tons of carbon.
News of the sale comes over a month after a new study showed that the super-wealthy have been recorded polluting more than ever before.
Despite being owned by just 0.003 per cent of the population, research shows that private jets of the rich make an 'outsized' contribution to climate change.
Scientists from Linnaeus University in Sweden found that private jets produced 15.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2023, up 46 per cent from 2019.
The most frequent fliers each churned out 2,400 tonnes of emissions in 2023 – more than 500 times as much as the average individual.
Last year, ultra-rich jet owners – including the likes of pop star Taylor Swift and Amazon founder Bezos – flew for almost 26,000 hours over 4,301,561 individual flights.
However, the researchers argue that a sizeable amount of these journeys could have been made by car or other means of transport.
The pristine condition jet boasts a kitchen, multiple lavish single seater chairs, ATG4000 WIFI and tons of storage space
Listing photos show beige and brown interiors all through out the plane with subtle features
The jet is equipped with two full couches that can turn into beds. According to Controller, the aircraft also has a meeting room and three 26-inch HD LCD monitors as well as one 17 inch HD LCD monitor
Furthermore, the aircraft also comes with two bathrooms and a full toilet for crew members
Bezos' two private jets spent nearly 25 days in flight in 2023 and produced as much CO2 as the average US citizen would in 207 years.
Lead author Professor Stefan Gössling told MailOnline: 'It indeed shows that we have many individuals among the very wealthy with outsized carbon footprints.'
Professor Gössling and his colleagues analysed flight data from 18,655,789 private flights flown by 25,993 'business jet-type' private aircraft between 2019 and 2023.
Using each jet's fuel consumption, flight times, and trajectory they were able to calculate how much CO2 each flight produced.
On average, each flight produced around 3.6 tonnes of CO2. While the amount of flights being taken dipped during the Covid pandemic, the ultra-rich made more private flights in 2023 than ever before.
Professor Gössling and his colleagues found that private jet use peaked on weekends and in the summer, suggesting that they are largely used for leisure.
This is despite the fact that private jet flights can be written off as a tax-deductible business expense in the US.
'We show that many of their flights are leisure, not business,' says Professor Gössling.
Along with the 2015 G650ER, Bezos also owns another G650ER and a Pilatus PC-24. He added the latest Gulfstream G700 to his collection this August for $80 million (pictured)
The billionaire and fiancée Lauren Sanchez also own a Bell 429 Helicopter, PC-24 jet and an Airbus Helicopter
According to a recent study, Bezos' two private jets spent nearly 25 days in flight in 2023 and produced as much CO2 as the average US citizen would in 207 years
Likewise, the researchers found that major international events were associated with particularly high volumes of private jet use.
During COP28 – a climate change conferenced in Dubai last year – there were 644 private flights producing 4,800 tonnes of CO2.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup, meanwhile, was associated with 1,846 private flights which produced 14,700 tonnes of CO2.
