Who do you think flew the most miles by private jet in 2024? Sentinel Aviation were surprised by two findings!

• Elon Musk was not number one.
• Taylor Swift, with all the publicity generated over her World Tour in 2024, was not in the Top 10. She came in 45th place with 95,030 miles.

The World’s Top 6

No. 1 – Eric Schmidt
The tech titan who once served as the CEO of Google owns a Gulfstream G650. Schmidt’s total flights for the year amount to 493, accounting for 612,578 miles.

It’s not Eric’s only form of luxury transformation, with the 69-year-old last year winning a lucrative auction in Antigua to buy a $67.6 million superyacht previously owned by a Russian oligarch.

No. 2 – Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest individual, is the most famous private flier. Musk owns multiple Gulfstream private jets, including a G650ER and a G550. He also previously owned a Dassault Falcon 900B.

During the recent election, Musk’s Gulfstream G650s were his primary means of transport. The private jets made 355 trips in 2024, with 31 of those to or from Palm Beach, where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is located. Since the election, the SpaceX founder has made 25 flights to and from Palm Beach. It’s unclear if all of these trips were to visit Mar-a-Lago, and if Musk was actually on board the jets for each trip.

The Gulfstream’s top destinations this year also included airports in Hawthorne, California, and Brownsville, Texas. Both are near SpaceX sites. The jets also took off and landed at an airport in Austin, where Musk has a home and where Tesla’s headquarters are located. The analysis also showed international flights to France, Poland, Germany, Portugal, Indonesia, China, and the U.K. Musk visited Paris last summer for the Olympics and recently for the reopening of Notre-Dame.

No. 3 – Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian, who also owns a Gulfstream G650, took third place. The reality TV star and Skims mogul travelled 419,532 miles across 39 days, 16 hours. She took a total of 236 flights in the jet.

No. 4 – P Diddy (Sean Combs)
Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs completed 415,139 miles over 308 flights in his Gulfstream V, which used 383,360 gallons of fuel.

Combs, 55, whose net worth has been estimated by Forbes to be $400 million, has past used his social media to document lavish holiday celebrations and other celebrities on yachts in far-flung locales.

No. 5 – Travis Scott
Travis Scott took fifth place in the rankings, tallying up a total of 404,644 miles in his Embraer E-190. The rapper completed 294 journeys. The amount he spent travelling equated to 43 days, five hours, and 16 minutes.

He was last seen using his private jet in October, when he arrived in Sydney for his Circus Maximus world tour to Australia.

No. 6 – Jay Z
Coming in sixth place is Jay Z’s Gulfstream V, which totalled 386, 642 miles over 291 trips. The billionaire travelled for the equivalent of 38 days and five hours.