EXCLUSIVE Meghan Markle's '$30,000 private jet trip': Eco-preaching duchess flew back to California from Invictus Games on gas-guzzling plane that created six-tonnes of CO2 - and included mystery stopover in Seattle By MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER and DARREN BOYLE Published: 01:08, 14 February 2025 | Updated: 01:08, 14 February 2025 e-mail View comments Meghan Markle's private jet trip back from the Invictus Games in Canada could have cost up to $30,000 and created six tonnes of CO2 on the three-hour flight that included a mystery stopover in the US, MailOnline can reveal today. The Duchess of Sussex , 43, has jetted back home to California from Vancouver - without her husband Harry - and the couple are believed to have used the same $9million plane to fly up last week. The average cost of hiring a jet of that size is between $7,000 to $10,000 per hour meaning that the former Suits star's flight home could have cost between $21,000 and $30,000.
Meghan and Harry have previously won green awards and were even named environmental 'role models' in 2021. But Meghan's flight will have burned around 800 gallons of fuel and created around 6.6 tonnes of CO2, which weighs the same as a large elephant.
Meghan landed at Santa Barbara Airport at 5.01pm on Tuesday after supporting her husband in Canada at Invictus' first winter games. But MailOnline can reveal that the flight logs for the Bombardier CL-600 luxury jet show that it stopped in Seattle for around 30 minutes before taking of.