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The photo of Javier Milei arriving on a scheduled flight at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, put the Argentine president on the list of heads of state who gave up their official planes to benefit from regular flights.
An example is Finland, where prime ministers, presidents and other highranking government members have a custom of traveling by commercial flights. It is a tradition so widespread that when broken momentarily it creates scandals in society.
In 2020, shortly before the start of the Covid pandemic, it was revealed that Prime Minister Sanna Marin had traveled to a United Nations (UN) conference in Spain by private jet. According to an investigation by the local press, the country's former president, Tarja Halonen, is said to have traveled on Russian jets more than a dozen times.
In England it is common practice for the Prime Minister to use commercial flights, although there are no official rules. The current minister Rishi Sunak is the one who has used the British Royal Air Force aircraft the most. Despite his speech on reducing pollutant emissions, he had used the fleet every eight days on average, more than his conservative predecessors in office.