蘋果公司要求庫克出行必須乘坐私人飛機

Apple's chief executive Tim Cook has been ordered by the firm to use only private jets for both business and personal transport.

蘋果公司首席執行官蒂姆·庫克已經被該公司被責令在商務和個人出行時必須使用私人飛機。

In documents filed with the US markets regulator, Apple said the policy was "in the interests of security and efficiency".

在提交給美國市場監管機構的文件中，蘋果公司表示，該政策是“爲了安全和效率”的利益。

Apple reported that Mr Cook's personal travel expenses came to $93,109 in 2017.

蘋果稱，2017年，庫克先生的個人差旅費用達到了93109美元。

His personal security expenses came to $224,216, the tech giant added.

該科技巨頭還表示，他的個人安全費用達到了224216美元。

In 2017, the chief executive's salary was just over $3m. He also received $9.3m in bonuses, plus $89m of shares that were promised to him if he met certain targets.

在2017年，這位首席執行官的薪酬超過了300萬美元。此外，他還獲得了930萬美元的獎金，外加如果他實現了某些目標，他將得到承諾的價值8900萬美元的股票。

Apple's market capitalisation rose to $868bn in November, making it the world's most valuable publicly-traded company.

去年11月，蘋果的市值增至8680億美元，成爲全球市值最高的上市公司。

The tech giant has suffered controversy recently. On 21 December, Apple was forced to admit that it had been deliberately slowing down ageing iPhones to help manage performance issues caused by their batteries wearing out.

這家科技巨頭最近飽受爭議。去年12月21日，蘋果被迫承認，一直在故意使得之前所有的蘋果手機運行變慢，以幫助管理因電池耗盡而導致的性能問題。

The firm is being sued in eight separate cases in the US over the matter, as well as facing legal action in Israel and France.

該公司在美國的8個獨立案件中被起訴，並在以色列和法國面臨法律訴訟。