Bill Gates has caused quite a bit of debate with his private jet travel. The Microsoft founder turned climate activist owns no less than four business

Inside Bill Gates’ Private Jet Collection

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2021-06-04 19:00:06

Bill Gates has caused quite a bit of debate with his private jet travel. The Microsoft founder turned climate activist owns no less than four business jets, which he calls his ‘guilty pleasure’. His collection is worth close to $200 million and features not one but two Gulfstream G650s. What’s more, he has just invested billions of dollars in the world’s largest business jet service provider.

Billionaire Bill Gates has written a book called How To Avoid Climate Disaster. In it, he confesses to being an ‘imperfect messenger’ as he lives in large houses and travels by private jet. A study conducted by Lund University in Sweden showed that in 2017, Bill Gates took 59 flights by private jet, emitting about 1,600 tonnes of CO2, compared to the global average of fewer than five tonnes per person.

Gates has defended his use of the exclusive means of transportation, saying that he offsets his carbon emissions by buying clean aviation fuel and funding carbon capture. Having bought his first Bombardier BD-700 Global Express in 1997, Gates says that travel by private jet is his ‘guilty pleasure’. However, just which aircraft does he own today that is sparking the controversy?

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