The ultrawealthy and billionaire set – ranging from hip-hop legend Jay-Z to legendary filmmaker George Lucas – are continuing to come to the Super Bowl in style.
As of Saturday afternoon, several hundred private jets had arrived across the Bay Area’s primary and secondary airports.
According to data provided by JetSpy (opens in new tab), which tracks and analyzes private jet traffic, 792 such high-end aircraft had landed between 8:00 a.m. on Feb. 4 and 6:40 a.m. on Sunday.
These fancy sets of wheels not only not only touched down at Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (226 arrivals) and San Francisco International Airport (177 arrivals), but also at our region’s furthest edges, including Monterey Peninsula Airport (66 arrivals) and even Watsonville Municipal Airport (one arrival).
Several of these aircraft are associated with numerous NFL team owners, including Robert Kraft (New England Patriots), Arthur M. Blank (Atlanta Falcons), and Gayle Benson (New Orleans Saints).
Sports executives’ planes included those belonging to Joe Lacob (Golden State Warriors), who flew in from Los Angeles, and Henry Samueli (Anaheim Ducks), who arrived from New Jersey.
A cabin crew member poses poses inside a Bombardier Global 7500 business jet in 2022. | Source: Photo by PIERRE ALBOUY/AFP via Getty Images
Some of the jets in the dataset also are owned by retired baseball players, including Alex Rodriguez of the Seattle Mariners, and Dorian Boyland of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Other aircraft belong to numerous celebrities ranging from actor Mark Wahlberg, to oil executive Ray R. Irani, to even Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, who began his startup in San Francisco back in 2009.
Among this collection of several hundred luxury aircraft coming in for the Super Bowl, the fanciest is the Bombardier Global 7500 (opens in new tab), which is typically priced at around $80 million.
According to its manufacturer, the Global 7500 has a maximum range of 7,700 nautical miles, which means from San Francisco it can reach most places in the world except eastern and southern Africa, western Australia, and southern India.
A March 2025 story in CN Traveler (opens in new tab) reported that the plane is designed to level off at “41,000 and 45,000 feet—about 10,000 feet above commercial airliners—where the plane can not only fly faster, but avoid most turbulence.”
Just 18 of the several hundred aircraft listed by JetSpy were the Global 7500 : among others, these jets belong to Falcons owner Arthur M. Blank; Charles Hoskinson, a crypto billionaire; and yes, Jay-Z and his wife and megastar Beyoncé.
The power couple’s plane has landed here twice since Feb. 4, first landing at OAK on Friday morning, and then again most recently at SFO on Saturday afternoon.