Elon Musk is planning to build his own airport outside of Austin 

The Boring Company’s address is located about three miles from the Austin Executive Airport.  

That airport has a 6,025-foot runway and over 130,000 square feet of community hangar space, reports Austonia.

The SpaceX founder currently travels on a 2015 Gulfstream G650, but has reportedly ordered a new private jet set for delivery next year.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is located about five miles from Giga Texas. 

Musk has tried to ramp up production in the face of multiple challenges – mostly related to supply chain chaos and the impact of inflation on the raw materials that go into the electric vehicles – so he has likely been making more trips to and from the Austin area. 

‘This factory is losing insane money right now,’ Musk told members of the Silicon Valley Tesla owners club in an interview at Giga Texas. ‘We should be operating a lot more cars from this factory versus a very puny amount of cars.’

‘Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now. Okay? It’s really like a giant roaring sound, which is the sound of money on fire,’ he said.

Musk said Tesla’s Texas factory produces a ‘tiny’ number of cars because of challenges in boosting production of its new ‘4680’ batteries and as tools to make its conventional 2170 batteries are ‘stuck in port in China.’ 

Constructing a new private airport would require approval from the Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Federal Aviation Administration.

Representatives for Musk did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment prior to this story’s publication. 

In a time of climate change, numerous celebrities have come under fire for crisscrossing America in their private jets that spew far more CO2 than the average American does driving in a car. 

Pop star Taylor Swift was recently named the ‘biggest celebrity CO2 polluter of the year’ by a study t, and found that Swift’s jet logged the most emissions of the pack.

In the new pollution rankings, Swift’s jet narrowly beat out Floyd Mayweather’s for the top spot. Other notables in the top 10 include Jay Z, director Steven Spielberg, Kim Kardashian, Mark Wahlberg and Oprah Winfrey.

However, Swift’s representative told that all of her trips weren’t even her as she sometimes loans her Falcon 7X jet to other people: ‘To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.’

On Yard’s list of celebrity jet offenders, Musk did not even rank in the top ten.

Meanwhile, US firms’ spending on private jets for their top executives for personal use hit a 10-year high last year as pandemic restrictions were relaxed. 

Facebook parent company Meta and aerospace engineering firm Lockheed Martin topped the charts, spending a whopping $1.6million and $1.1million respectively on private air travel for their chief executives Mark Zuckerberg and James Taiclet.

A total of $33.8million was spent on private flights in 2021 by S&P 500 companies – a 35 per cent rise vs. 2020 and expresswebtech the most since since 2012, according to data from ISS Corporate Solutions.

Private jets produce a significantly higher amount of harmful emissions per passenger than commercial flights, leading environmentalists to criticize their continued use by wealthy businesspeople and executives.

It comes as Zuckerberg’s social media behemoth in 2020 announced it seeks to reach a net zero target for emissions created by the company’s activities – including business trips – by 2030.