Why did ASDA billionaires’ private jets make hundreds of trips to tropical hotspots?

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How often do you travel by plane each year
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For the billionaire owners of supermarket chain, ASDA, that number could be in the hundreds
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Zuba and Mosin Issa, who co-owned ASDA and the Fourcourt Business EG Group
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borrowed $39 million from their petrol station empire to buy two private aircraft
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City AM has uncovered flight radar data showing that these private jets flew nearly a thousand times
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to and from London airports between December 2020 and July 2023. Many of these flights were to tropical hotspots, including 51 trips between London airports and Caribbean islands, ranging from Barbados and Abitha to Malaga and St Martin
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In fact, 24 flights were taken between London and Abitha and 17 to and from London and Malaga
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Other sunny destinations included Tenerife, Corfu and Cancun. Alongside Mosin, Zuba and EG Group, other travellers may have used the jets by charter, and any profit from Rufu, and Kankun
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travelers may have used the jets by charter and any profit from renting them out would
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have gone to the brothers as opposed to EG Group. But it's not clear who was actually on
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the plane for any of these trips. EG Group has said previously it occasionally
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charters aircraft to facilitate secure travel to international business meetings and support the effective management of in-country operations. A source close to EG
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Group said the flight's tropical destinations did not relate to use by the business
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However, EG Group declined to provide a breakdown of which trips related to the company and which ones were related to the brothers personal use
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The Easter brothers and ASDA also declined to comment. The head of fossil fuel investigations at NGO Global Witness said the worst effects of the climate
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crisis can be prevented without going back to the Stone Age, but not if we let billionaires
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use private jets like taxis. Here at Citi M, we'd like to know what you think
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Do billionaires have a responsibility to cut down on carbon emissions? Let us know in the comments

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Why did ASDA billionaires’ private jets make hundreds of trips to tropical hotspots?

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