We can all agree that meeting high-profile personalities like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk on a commercial flight is pretty unlikely, even if you're flying first class. The reason for that is simple: these people can fly in their own business jets. For some of them, we should use the plural - jets.
Among the high-profile personalities who own a fleet of private jets is Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. Although Gates is an advocate of climate change and a climate activist himself, he once stated that private jets are his "guilty pleasure" - a pretty expensive one, given that his fleet of business jets has an estimated value of $200 million . On top of that, the climate activist paradoxically owns a private aviation management firm and has invested billions in the world's largest private jet service provider.
If the founder of Microsoft were a member of any airline's loyalty program, he would definitely be the most valued. Why? In 2022, he reportedly took 392 flights on his private jets, an average of more than one daily. According to the latest publicly available information, Bill Gates owns four business jets: two Gulfstream G650ERs, estimated to cost $70 million each, and two Bombardier Challenger 350s, priced at $27 million each.
Bill Gates' fleet of Gulfstream G650ERs Bill Gates has chosen the Gulfstream 650ER for his air travels around the globe. To be more precise, the founder of Microsoft owns not just one but two aircraft of this type. One of the G650ERs is registered .
