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A private jet belonging to John Kerry and his family has taken 16 trips this year alone, according to flight records obtained by Flight Aware.
The jet is scheduled to depart Martha's Vineyard Thursday, one day after former President Obama's birthday bash with close family and friends.
Many of the flights were within Massachusetts, to and from both Martha's Vineyard and Boston.
Others were within Idaho, both Sun Valley and Boise. Kerry, 77, and his wife Teresa Heinz, 82, whose namesake comes from her late husband, an an heir to the ketchup fortune, have reportedly been part time residents in Sun Valley for decades and Heinz Kerry has owned a home in Ketchum.
Other flights included stops in New Jersey and Los Angeles. The flight log was first reported by Fox News.
A spokesperson for Kerry told DailyMail.com that Biden's point person to reduce global climate emissions has not himself flown private this year, but it's evident his family is not ready to give up flying private to reduce their climate footprint.
Stock photo of an EJM plane. Kerry's family jet has flown 16 times this year
Climate envoy John Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz, seen here in 2013 at the East Room of the White House for a reception hosted by Obama, have an estimated combined net worth well over $600