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Billionaires Talking Climate Change Tie Up Air Traffic w/Their Private Jets
A cabal of some of the most high-profile people in media, finance, and technology descended on Idaho’s resort town of Sun Valley in private jets this past week to tackle, among other things, climate change.
On the day the conference began, traffic from private jets got to be so busy that the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned planes on the West Coast from taking off.
The FAA told Fox News it held planes on the ground at their departure airports to avoid congestion in the airspace around Sun Valley.
Sources tell FOX Business Charlie Gasparino that Sun Valley residents are complaining that corp jets owned by moguls disrupted other flights.
A cabal of some of the most high-profile people in media, finance, and technology descended on Idaho’s resort town of Sun Valley in private jets this week to tackle, among other things, climate change.
On Tuesday, the day the conference kicked off, traffic from private jets got to be so busy that the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned planes on the West Coast from taking off.
A Gulfstream G650 owned by Jeff Bezos Poplar Glen LLC arrives at Hailey s Friedman Memorial Airport for the Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S. July 6, 2021. (REUTERS/Brian Losness)
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Ground stops are nothing new during busy travel periods but last week the FAA instituted holds all over North America for aircraft headed to a small airport in Idaho. There were so many business jets headed to the 38th annual Allen and Company conference in Sun Valley that the agency had to throttle traffic to Friedman Memorial Airport, which is 13 miles south of the famed resort town. The Allen and Company conference is sometimes called “summer camp for billionaires” and attracts some of world’s highest net worth people.
Like many small mountain airports, Friedman has a single runway (13/31 7550X100) and while that seems ample, it’s also at 5318 feet. Idaho is also in the middle of an historic heat wave so density altitude has been a lot higher than that during the heat of the day. Despite the constraints, dozens of aircraft, from Citations to Global 7500s were funneled into the facility and crammed onto the ramp. Keynote speaker was Bill Gates, who
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