Its in the owning companies name, Influencer Air. He's going to sell flights on it, not just use it himself.
Who the fuck is going to charter a nearly 30 year old plane even if he remodels the entirety of the interior for tech retards, and who the fuck besides himself has the cash to charter it in the first place?
Sounds like a retarded idea, really fucking career ending, since it's a 8 million dollar plane, it isn't cheap, i can't even begin to calculate the expenses for doing a airline, the plane by itself costs 2-3 million a year to run, imagine paying staff, airline insurance, all the regulatory red tape,etc.
To all those obviously super wealthy tech influencers who want luxury travel and are also based in Vancouver. I do think he's got illusions of making it better suited for tech people as they travel, but anything more advanced than "I put satellite internet and an editing workstation in the plane" is beyond what anyone on a plane might even want. And he's not gonna get a premium price out of them for it either, any influencer who can afford a premium jet flight has on staff editors so they don't have to work like a dog on a continental flight.
Exactly, all those huge ass youtubers will either charter a newer, safer, cheaper, plane, or just buy business class tickets, which are 95% of the first class/private jet experience at 1/3 the cost
While I agree that it seems to be a dumb decision to buy an entire jet for some reason, there's a good chance he'll rent it out to charter companies when he isn't planning on using it to offset the maintenance and other costs. A lot of jet owners do that because most people don't use their jets consistently enough to justify not doing that.
How much cash you think some charter company is going to lease it for? it's going to be barely above the cost of ownership, much less all the taxes and redtape he's doing by registering another company just for this old ass plane.
Is there a shortage of private jets in Canada? will they scramble to pay whatever Linus wants out of this jet? i don't think so.
Now, the decision to buy a jet to begin with is the big question; and from every angle it looks super retarded. Kinda like buying another house, or funding a tech lab, or [insert every decision Linus has made with his company].
This is peak retarded, he's not even buying a new jet, at least the quartering was smart enough to buy a brand new cessna, this is like those above their means car youtubers who buy a bugatti veyron for less than a million,
and then realize the car needs 40 thousand dollar each custom high speed tyres and wheels every 6 months, or your local neighborhood retard who bought a used jaguar and then discovered why they go from 100 grand to 20 in just 5 years.
8 million is sizeable chunk of his wealth,
and there's 2.5-3 million in fixed costs now per year.
I asked chatgpt what sort of business he could had built up with 8 million upfront and 3 million in expenses in a year in the same area and it used the example of a asian owned tofu junk food factory, lol.
I think this is big, i mean LOTY, career ending big, this could be it.
Will he starve? nope, will he need to live in a tiny house with a nagging wife and having to return heated socks?, maybe.
Linus could be the dark horse in this year's race with this stunt alone, he's the sleeper miata of lolcows now.
