How do private jets emit more greenhouse gas than commercial jets?

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I still can’t wrap my head around the physics. Commercial jets weigh more than private jets and carry much more people (which also contributes to the extra weight)

Doesn’t that mean the plane would have to do extra work to move around, and thus consume more fuel as an energy source?

Shouldn’t that make them emit more gases as end products of combustion?

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It’s not that they emit more pollutants, it’s that they emit more pollutants per person. On a commercial jet, like a 747, you’ve got up to 400+ people being moved, so the the individual carbon footprint is the footprint of the flight divided by 400ish.

On a private jet, you’re often talking about fewer than 10 people, sometimes even less. That means the per capita carbon footprint is much higher. It’s the same as diving your own car to work or taking mass transit.

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