Where’s Rupert?

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News America makes extensive use of its corporate jets–this BBJ, shown here, a G550 and a GIV–according to the WSJ Jet Tracker. This year The Wall Street Journal waged a high-profile campaign against business aviation.
News America makes extensive use of its corporate jets–this BBJ, shown here, a G550 and a GIV–according to the WSJ Jet Tracker. This year The Wall Street Journal waged a high-profile campaign against business aviation.

One can only speculate about whether or not Rupert Murdoch had any role in or opinion about the vigor with which his Wall Street Journal has launched into tabloid-style exposé of high-ranking executives’ personal use of corporate aircraft at companies other than his own now globally infamous News Corp.

However, AIN’s research into the movements of Murdoch’s corporate jets, using his own WSJ “Jet Tracker” online snooping tool, reveals what can only be described as a heaping helping of hypocrisy. Jet Tracker reveals that Murdoch’s BBJ, G550 and GIV have spent a significant portion of their downtime on the ramps of airports serving some of the world’s most desirable playgrounds.