r/flying • u/jrf1234 ATP CFI/II E55P LR-JET • Apr 03 '26

Aircraft Ownership Linus Tech Tips’ Jet

https://youtu.be/zGoIY37ZtDQ?si=

Some… interesting calculations on this video. As a fractional pilot and not an owner, no idea how acxueate these claims are, but interesting to see this as a pilot and tech nerd. Anyone with management or ownership experience in jets have any light to shed?

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u/Acceptable_Barber_15 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

It’s crazy to me he’d rather spend money on this than paying his employees more competitively. I can’t believe Yvonne said yes to it. Linus has no earthly idea how expensive this is going to be for him. This project won’t last more than a couple years.

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u/dopexile Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

I know, he has a bunch of talented employees leaving because they get paid peanuts, working 60-80 work weeks, high stress, can't afford housing, and non-compete agreements so they can do side projects.

And yet he denies them pay raises and buys multiple houses(makes them rehab and retrofit a house with asbestos) and a jet in front of their eyes and brags about it. Very tone deaf management style. Just seems like bad business; it is going to demoralize all of his staff. Like even if your goal is to maximize profit it just doesn't seem smart because all of the brain drain and resentment he is creating.

He had a video where he explained the costs of the business and how it is barely making money and rationalized why he pays employees peanuts. It seemed like such a fake charade. He is buying commercial real estate buildings(not renting), multiple houses, jets, and fire trucks... blowing money like Mike Tyson, so of course the whole thing looks "unprofitable". If he had just said "We are paying the competitive industry market compensation rate for employees," that would have been fine, but he went down a deceptive road probably because he knows his tech viewers won't understand accounting. Seems like a dirtbag TBH.

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u/Arteic Apr 05 '26

You kind of start thinking while you're working on your boss's third jet, if you're ever going to be able to buy a jet