PLANE EASY
Hack Kate Middleton & Wills use to fly incognito on Ryanair – as Meghan & Harry are ‘on a private plane every 5 minutes’
Scroll on to find out why the family is ditching private jets and using commercial airlines instead
DESPITE sometimes jetting off in private jets with plush seating and a VIP area, members of the Royal Family have been slipping onto commercial flights without anyone noticing.
Prince William, 42, has frequently used budget airlines for travel, both alone and with his wife, the Princess of Wales, often sharing the flight with regular passengers.
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One such instance was in 2015 when dad-of-three Wills was spotted on a flight going from Norfolk to as part of his training programme with East Anglian Air Ambulance.
A fellow passenger managed to snap a photo of the royal as he was disembarking the plane.
''I never expected to see him on Ryanair, but it refreshing to see a member of the Royal Family take a cheap flight."
Another example was in 2019 when the couple were seen flying to Balmoral with Flybe, where tickets cost around £73 per person.
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Kate and Wills, who met in 2001 as first-year students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, had their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, with them.
A royal expert has also now spilled the beans on how the royals manage to slip almost unnoticed onto regular flights, going in full incognito mode.
Royal correspondent Emily Andrews told Channel 5's documentary Secrets of the Royal Flight that the savvy parents on their 2014 tour to Australia travelled under the names of Mr and Mrs Smith and little Prince George, just eight or nine months at the time, was baby Jones.
The documentary also pointed out that there is a reason the Royals have decided to fly commercial instead of private, .
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According to Emily, this change is most likely due to the younger generation of royals being "more media savvy" and "attuned to public opinion."
The expert added that private flights will probably become less frequent in the future.
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She said: "I think that for their public duties, the younger royals will continue to travel commercially because it is more cost-effective."
Meanwhile, back in the US, ''hypocritical'' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle jet off on a private plane ''every five minutes'', one expert recently blasted.
Author Ingrid Seward slammed the couple after they set up slick new Sussex.com to replace their Archwell.com website.
It came after Harry, 40, took part in a bombshell interview earlier this year to discuss King Charles' cancer diagnosis, his life in California and the possibility of becoming a US citizen.
Sussex.com website describes Harry as a passionate "environmental campaigner" - but speaking on The Sun's Royal Exclusive show, Ingrid said the couple keep ''rebranding'' themselves without actually changing anything.
She said: "They're using a coat of arms which is actually Meghan's coat of arms. Even that's wrong.
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ECO-WARRIORS Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle regularly choose the luxury of private jets over saving the planet, Sun analysis suggests.
Meghan hitched a ride on a pal’s private jet from Toronto in Canada to Montego Bay in Jamaica in March 2017.
There she met Harry, who was celebrating the marriage of his "wingman" pal Tom "Skippy" Inskip at an exclusive resort.
Prior to their wedding in Windsor, the couple flew to George and Amal Clooney’s holiday pad on Lake Como in Italy in August 2018.
Even though it is possible to take the train from Britain to Amsterdam in Holland, the then-royal pair decided in October 2018 to hop on a luxury Dassault Falcon 7X jet instead.
They were there to celebrate Soho House founder Nick House's 55th birthday.
Displaying a greater love for Meghan than the planet, Harry took a private jet back home from the Arctic Circle in Norway on February 14 2019 to be with his new wife for Valentine’s Day in the UK.
He had been in Scandinavia to meet British Armed Forces who were taking part in survival training exercises.
Meghan returned home to the UK from a star-studded baby shower in New York that same month on a Gulfstream G450 twin engine jet.
During the trip she stayed at a lavish Manhattan hotel, visited Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bar and hung out with tennis champion Serena Williams.
In an act of extreme eco-hypocrisy Harry flew to a climate change summit on the Italian island of Sicily on a private jet in August 2019.
At the private high-powered bash he reportedly delivered a speech about the dangers of man-made global warming.
During his stay at the Google Camp the prince is believed to have slept on a superyacht, which is also environmentally unfriendly.
Just a few days later Harry, Meghan and their son Archie hopped on a private jet to the Spanish island of Ibiza for a family holiday.
The trip included a celebration of the Duchess’s 38th birthday.
In the same month Sir Elton John flew his royal friends to the south of France and back on his 12-seater Cessna plane - the fourth private jet journey in 11 days.
The pop singer later defended the decision saying: “To maintain a high level of much-needed protection, we provided them with a private jet flight.”
Following a backlash about their use of private jets, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex mainly flew commercial flights for their official tour of South Africa, Botswana, Angola and Malawi in October 2019.
But royal expense accounts later revealed that private jets were used during the tour.
Having turned his back on Britain at the start of 2020, Harry and Meghan headed to Florida where he gave a speech for JP Morgan bank.
They travelled in February on a top of the range Gulfstream 6 jet, and while in the Sunshine State, the couple dined with Jennifer Lopez.
With the world locking down due to Covid-19, the Sussexes made a dash from Canada to Los Angeles on a private jet in March 2020.
It was reported that they wanted to be in California to establish a permanent home before the borders closed.
The plane was an Embraer Lineage 1000E worth £43million, reportedly provided by billionaire actor and director Tyler Perry, which boasts a luxury lunge and separate bedroom and can carry up to 120 passengers.
It takes just two hours to fly from Aspen in Colorado to Los Angeles, but Harry chose to make the short internal flight on a pal’s Gulfstream jet in August 2021.
The prince had been taking part in a charity polo match.
The campaigning couple flew home from New York on a Dassault Falcon 2000 jet in September 2021, having talked about making sure everyone in the world had access to the Covid-19 vaccine.
The issue of climate change was also addressed by others at the Global Citizen Live summit during their trip.
Meghan decided to make a floral tribute in May 2022 to the 19 children and two teachers murdered at Robb Elementary School in Texas by a crazed gunman.
The 1,400 mile journey from her home in California to lay the white roses was made on a private jet.
A month later the Duke and Duchess returned from the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in England on a Bombardier Global 6000 private jet.
The 13 passenger plane is said to include a “private stateroom” and can travel for 6,000 miles without refuelling.
Harry was back on board a private jet for another jaunt to Aspen in August 2022 for a polo match.
He was spotted boarding a Bombardier Challenger 600 at a Santa Barbara airport in California.
Most of the Royal Family flew up to Balmoral Castle in September 2022 on a private jet as soon as they heard the terrible news that Queen Elizabeth II was on her deathbed.
But Harry is said to have taken a separate private flight from London to Aberdeen.
It seems the Sussexes don’t like flying coast to US coast commercial, choosing to charter a private flight to get to New York again in December 2022.
This time the woke pair were collecting an award from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation for standing up to alleged "structural racism" in the British Royal Family.
Later in the same month, the Duchess was spotted getting on a private plane from Indianapolis in Indiana.
She had spoken at an event titled The Power of Women: An Evening with Meghan.
This October, Harry and Meghan boarded a Dassault Falcon 7X jet in New Jersey to fly to the Caribbean.
They stayed on the exclusive island of Canouan in St Vincent.
The couple's latest jaunt on a private jet - owned by oil heir Michael Herd - took them to Vegas for the Katy Perry gig, flying 40 minutes each way.
"If you are the son of the King, you have three points on your coronet but if you're the grandson you have five.
"Tiny thing, but people have picked up on it.
"I just find the whole thing incredibly hypocritical. They keep rebranding themselves.
"And yet there they are - they're the same.
"He's an environmentalist on a private plane every five minutes. Nobody even knows what Meghan does.
"If you ask people in the street, they don't know."
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Since tying the knot with Meghan in 2018, Harry has used private jets for the majority of flights - despite claiming to travel commercial "99 per cent" of the time.
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