Most reasonable people are content with one or two private jets, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt aren’t content with one plane each — The Mercury News reports the search triumvirate share eight. That’s a lot of planes for three guys! Do they race? Do they pay people to fly all eight at once while they watch from the roof of a castel made of money? Is that ecologically or financially responsible? The answer to all of those things is probably no! But don’t expect them to kick the habit anytime soon — they’re ready to pony up $US33 million in an effort to restore an old NASA hangar as their personal parking lot. See, if you had thought of Google first, you could be doing fun expensive things like this right now. [Mercury News via TechCrunch]
light487
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:09 AMSeems a bit uneven.. they should have 9…
Random
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:43 AMC’mon mate, it’s even. 8 is even, right? 9 would have been uneven… odd ;)
chris
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 2:54 PMQuite sure he meant even as in 3 each? :P
Recka
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 3:22 PMEven as in 3 each :P
awesome
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:18 AMBecause they can, that’s why!
Alex
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:23 AMcoz they have the G’z
Chemenski
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:33 AMIt’s because they can.
Timmahh
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:49 AMHmm, I can understand one as the company taxi, but eight? Seems a bit tacky to me!
Andrew
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 2:12 PMIt’s all about shmoozing… Sending a jet to pick people up, rewarding employees, doing a favour, making sure that the AT&T exec gets to spend time with his Ukrainian supermodel mistress on the weekend.
Mark
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:58 AMAt one stage Michael Schumacher had 3 private planes, each with different ranges
cam
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 10:37 AMI would if I could…..
Steve
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 10:37 AMGotta love the yellow journalism at Giz US. Does Roger Ailes have a hand in your content too?
Azza
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 10:42 AMI have a feeling they’re using these for some reason that has not occurred to us yet.
Labrys
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 10:45 AMHey at least they are not using them to go fly to Washington to ask for government hand-outs because they are going broke.
Steve
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 11:20 AMMay I suggest they use them for business meetings etc, where they send a plane to someone they are meeting with to bring them to them, instead of, you know, racing them, which is slightly less logical.
JezzK
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 11:09 AMGood luck to them.
Are you going to tell us about their shopping and eating habits next?
Personally I’d also love to hear about their kinky sex lives and their bathroom routines.
Once you’ve reported on those can you get back to writing appropriately interesting articles?
Matt L
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 11:26 AMGoogle learned early in life that backups are necessary.
Andy
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 11:48 AMMaybe they just like running their transport in a RAID mirroring array?
Borganstein
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 3:29 PM+1
Kamold
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 3:53 PMRAEL: Redundent Array of Expensive Learjets
Mike
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:19 PMGreat…I’m bound to get stuck in Parity Class…no leg room in there ever!
Aj
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 10:41 PMLogical next step after streetview….