Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt have eight jets between the three of them, reports Mercury News.
They want to pay $33 million to help finish renovation of Moffett Federal Field, a joint civilian/military airport located between Mountain View and Sunnyvale.
In exchange, they want to be able to use 2/3 of the floorspace to house their eight aircraft.
The proposal has no official Google involvement — a company called H211 owns and operates the Google jets.
Officials at Moffett Field are skeptical. "We don't want to see 'Google' in 200-foot letters on that hangar," said Steve Williams of the Save Hangar One Committee.
Ken Ambrose, director of operations for H211, said that the Google execs don't want that either.
But 2.6 jets per person? TechCrunch's Jon Orlin offers his take:
On one hand, the Google leaders can spend their money any way they please. Their time is valuable, and using the jets makes them more efficient. On the other hand, using private jets is not very environmentally friendly for leaders of a company that prides itself [on] being green.
On February 28, Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, joined 31 other media groups and filed a $2.3 billion suit against Google in Dutch court, alleging losses suffered due to the company's advertising practices.
