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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I think you will find the statistic is that private jets cause more greenhouse gases **per passenger**.

Private jets tend to fly a very small number of people.

Commercial airliners will out pollute a jet on a single flight, but that commercial will fit the same amount of people in one flight that would take a private jet twenty trips to achieve.