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'We die so the 1% can fly': Kardashians and other celebrities' private jets blanket California neighborhood with noxious fumes, residents call for actionMany celebrities are not shy about lecturing others about the dangers of climate change and the life-altering actions everyone needs to take to combat it. However, many celebrities also enjoy the convenience of flying on private jets. In fact, private jet use has skyrocketed so much at one California airport that local residents say their neighborhoods are being blanketed by noxious fumes.
The Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles has become a hotspot for private jet flights to take off and land. The Van Nuys Airport handled 46,140 jet operations in 2016, but that figure spiked to 69,907 flights in 2021 – an average of one take-off or landing every seven minutes, according to the Los Angeles World Airport website.
Suzanne Gutierrez-Hedges – a resident of the nearby neighborhood of Lake Balboa – told the Los Angeles Times that VNY has turned into a "commercial airport."
Gutierrez-Hedges said, "We die so the 1% can fly!"
Celeb Jets – a website that tracks celebrity private jets and has nearly 125,000 followers on Twitter – found that many celebrities use Van Nuys Airport to fly with their private jets.
The celebrity private jet tracking website noted that numerous celebrities had used their private jets at Van Nuys Airport.
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg – who previously noted that "global warming is a scientific reality" – has reportedly used his private jet extensively in Van Nuys Airport, according to Celeb Jets. Since Sept. 30, Celeb Jets has found that Speilberg's private jet has landed or taken off from Van Nuys Airport 13 times since Sept. 4.
According to the flight tracker, Kim Kardashian's plane flew in or out of Van Nuys Airport four times since Sept. 22 – including a 10-minute flight to Los Angeles Airport.
Since Sept. 2, rapper Travis Scott's private jet has taken off or landed at VNY Airport, according to the Celeb Jets Twitter account.
Kylie Jenner reportedly used Van Nuys Airport eight times since Sept. 18. The flights included a 4-minute flight to VNY from Camarillo Airport – which is drivable in under 45 minutes.
Over the summer, Kylie Jenner was slammed online for posting a photo on Instagram of two private jets on the tarmac with her kissing her boyfriend Travis Scott. The caption for the photo read: "You wanna take mine or yours?"
Many online commenters said the post was elitist and that the private jet usage was exacerbating the "climate crisis."
"Our data reveals that the celebs have emitted an average of 3376.64 tonnes of CO2 emissions in just their private jet usage in 2022 so far," the study found. "That's 482.37 times more than the average person’s annual emissions."
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