2025 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $205M
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Meta, the parent company of multiple apps including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, spent $205 million on U.S.-booked air travel for employees in 2025, according to a BTN estimate. This is significantly reduced from BTN’s estimate for the previous year and may reflect the general belt-tightening at Meta as it targets AI-related investments.
In January 2025, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a wave of restructuring that would result in as many as 3,600 layoffs. Later the same year, the social tech giant dismissed 600 more workers from its AI unit.
Still, the company sought strategic acquisitions in 2025. It acquired in July 2025 Play AI and in August 2025 WaveForms for undisclosed sums. Each is for use with or to be integrated into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the AI division of Meta. At the tail end of December, Meta bought agent AI social network Moltbook AI for $2 billion. It also invested more than $14 billion in Scale AI, a company that uses data to train AI models.
Meta has continued to lay off workers deep into 2026 as part of a year-long initiative called Project OT (Organization Transformation), which concentrates on shifting traditional corporate teams to AI assisted workflows. It announced a 10 percent reduction in workforce in April.
The company's full-year 2025 revenue was $200.97 billion. This represents a 22 percent increase compared to 2024. Meta's global workforce as of Dec. 31, 2025, was about 78,900, an increase from approximately 74,500 employees the year prior.