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Where Bezos’s jet flies most — and what it might say about Amazon’s HQ2 winner

November 2, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. EDT
Flight data examined by The Post show that Jeffrey Bezos’s luxury jet has embarked on more than a dozen flights a month in 2018, many of them leaving or returning to Seattle, Amazon’s current home. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters)

Amazon.com executives tour­ed all 20 of the finalist locations the company is considering for its second headquarters and its 50,000 jobs.

But how many of the cities has company founder Jeffrey P. Bezos visited himself in search of the best site for his company?

It’s impossible to know for sure. But Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person and the owner of The Washington Post, travels frequently aboard his own jet, a Gulfstream G650ER.