Kim Kardashian has a ‘don’t breathe’ rule and Kanye West a marble bathroom, while Drake enjoys his adorned with golden walls and Tyson Fury shares a special entourage area – the extravagant world of showbiz’s most jaw-dropping private jets shows just how the other half flies.
World heavyweight champion Fury has been pictured enjoying the comfort of a £100million private jet while recovering from the grisly injury that stymied his undisputed title clash with Oleksandr Usyk.
The British boxer, 35, luxuriated in an Airbus ACJ319 with a cinema, double bedroom, dining room and dedicated ‘entourage area’ when flying home from Saudi Arabia. Fury later posted a photo of his return to the ‘rain, wind, cold’ of Lancashire home town Morecambe – but he is evidently enjoys travelling in such style, a taste shared by plenty of fellow celebrities flaunting photos of their miles-aloft luxury living.
Yet there have been complaints from residents in Los Angeles about being ‘blanketed’ with fumes by private planes landing at Van Nuys Airport in California – and calls for curfews.
Famous names said to regularly jet in include Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Kylie Jenner, Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears. British marketing agency Yard compiled a list of the worst celebrity polluters – including half-sisters Kylie and Kim, singer Taylor Swift and actor Tom Cruise.
Taylor Swift
Singer Taylor Swift has just sold the smaller of her two private jets amid criticism of a planned 19,200-mile trip in ten days as part of her record-breaking Eras world tour.
She has also been supporting boyfriend Travis Kelce as he heads to the Superbowl this weekend. Swift let go of her 12-seater private jet, a £35million Dassault Falcon 900, but retained another which can fit 16.
She is said to often lend a plane to celebrity friends. The jet she has just sold had her lucky number 13 on the front and the registration N898TS – signifying her initials as well as her birth year 1989.
Swift, 34, has been under pressure to cut down on her carbon emissions after jet-setting across the world to spend time with Kansas City Chief’s tight end Kelce, also 34. She had reportedly bought that jet for $40million in 2011 but still owns her Dassault Falcon 7X which if bought new would cost $54million.
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian, 43, splashed out on a £150million private jet she dubbed ‘Kim Air’. She told on her TV show The Kardashians how every seat had a phone charger and all the upholstery was cashmere.
The plane is a Gulfstream G65OER, with a base price of $95million, although it is believed she had the aircraft built from scratch to her bespoke specifications – taking manufacturers a whole year to finish the job.
And she is said to issue any passengers with the strict instructions: ‘Don’t breathe, don’t touch a thing.’ Guests invited aboard the plane are given a pair of SKIMS slippers and pyjamas for their trip, while the Créme color used in the 18-seater jet is the same one used in Kim’s own home.
She designed the interior with help from Tommy Clements and Waldo Fernandez. Kim’s half-sister Kylie Jenner, 26, bought a $72.8million pink private Global Express jet for herself – all adorned in pink, with an entertainment room and master suite.
She faced an online backlash in 2022 for sharing a picture of the two jets she and boyfriend Travis Scott had, captioning it: ‘You wanna take mine or yours?’ Kylie has also been slammed for a 12-minute flight on her private jet for a 26-mile journey that would have taken just 39 minutes by car.