AIRBUS A-380 Mega Jumbo bought as a private jet !

Le Bourget airshow - France.
Yesterday, M. Leahy, Airbus commercial director said Airbus has sold an A-380, the biggest passenger jet in the world to a private. The plane will be fitted with a Hammam, a Gym, a pool and will be used as a private jet...

Mr Aage Duenhaupt at Lufthansa Technik, the German company wich makes the mods said three to five more orders to convert A-380s are on the way (...).

Insane.

Cost : approx 320 Millions dollars for the plane and don't know how much for the conversion but could be up to 100 millions dollars...

 

Yeah, I read about this before. I don't know if it will really be private as in a single owner or if a private company will own it to charter out or possibly corporate jet. I know Boeing has a couple orders for the new 747-8 as private aircraft. The interior will be fitted by that Technik place as well since Boeing only delivers the aircraft green.

 

That would be sweet. What a life some people live!!

 

A buddy of mine transports race and show horses for a living. He's all over the world on a weekly basis. One of his clients (a Sheik) fly's two 747's. One for his family, and the other for his horses!!!!.




Darrell.

 

I saw a video (lifestyle like this) on youtube, the Sheik rides his horse, and his brothers followed him with 2 or 3 white Rolls Royce Phantoms.

 

People pay that much for mega-yachts. Expensive is always a relative term.

 

I want to see the inside. Luxury all around!!

 

Holy smokes!

That's just wretched excess! Would be nice to be able to drive a few of his cars right onto the plane and bring them with him wherever he goes.

 

There's only a handful of airports that can handle the A380. I wonder what happens when he wants to go somewhere exotic.

 

thats when you go with your smaller, faster and much more nimble gulfstream 550, which at 55 million, is a relative steal!!!!

 

You didn't hear about the switch that instantly replaces the wheel landing gear with aqua landing gear getting installed for an additional 100mm?

 

Or faster again, Citation X.

 

this is true. when outfitted w/ custom tenders and helicopter...they are approaching this price of the airbus. there are more super yacht being commisioned each year. quite a business to be in!!!

 

Wired Magazine had a cutaway illustration of the plane in question... Looks pretty cool.

-R

 

If I had the money to get a private plane, I sure as hell would. The money is no good to you when you die, so enjoy it in whatever way makes you happy. For me personally, the jet makes more sense than a giga-yacht.

 

It all depends on your intent with it imo. Private jets are only for transportation purposes to get from A to B, but in extreme comfort. You can't "cruise" around in them for weeks at a time. Only up to something like 14 hours. Of course the jet's destination is just an airport and I doubt you'd want to live in the plane at the airport during your stay. You'd probably have a house rented or a 5* hotel room.

For a yacht, you just cruise for weeks and go to the ports you want and drop anchor. Everything is already there. The only downside for traveling with a yacht is that you can't go inland with the yacht to places like Colorado, lol. Don't forget the toys you can have stowed away and used whenever you want unlike an airplane where you don't go para sailing off the back of it.

If I had the money, I'd go for a smaller private jet for traveling to destinations inland and a yacht to cruise around the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Asia Pacific islands.

 

Sounds like Paradise to me.

Give me a Gulfstream G4 and one of those Wally yachts. That's only $100 million for both of them. What a bargin!

 

I remember hearing that the Google guys had bought a 747 and spruced up the interior for their corporate travels

 

For that much money he could have bought this and built the interior:

https://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/boatDetails.jsp?currency=USD&units=Feet&currencyid=100&boat_id=1451158&checked_boats=1451158&back=%2Fcore%2Flisting%2Fcache%2FsearchResults.jsp%3Ftype%3D%2528Power%2529%2BMotoryacht%26hmid%3D0%26sm%3D3%26enid%3D0%26luom%3D126%26currencyid%3D100%26cit%3Dtrue%26boatsAddedSelected%3D-1%26ftid%3D0%26ps%3D30%26slim%3Dquick&searchtype=

 

Nah, it was a 767. Still a widebody plane, but the takeoff and landing distances are much shorter than the 747 and 777. Gulfstream jets, used, are still very expensive compared to a used commercial 767 that the Google guys bought. Let me find some pics on airliners.net...

Edit: Google 767 in their paint scheme: http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N2767&distinct_entry=true

The way it used to look with Qantas: http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0705468&WxsIERv=Obrvat%20767-238%2FRE&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=Dnagnf&QtODMg=Flqarl%20-%20Xvatfsbeq%20Fzvgu%20Vagreangvbany%20%28Znfpbg%29%20%28FLQ%20%2F%20LFFL%29&ERDLTkt=Nhfgenyvn%20-%20Arj%20Fbhgu%20Jnyrf&ktODMp=Bpgbore%2015%2C%202004&BP=1&WNEb25u=Penvt%20Zheenl&xsIERvdWdsY=IU-RND&MgTUQtODMgKE=%22Pvgl%20bs%20Ynhaprfgba%22%20%28Qry%208%2F87%29%20chfuvat%20onpx%20cevbe%20gb%20bcrengvat%20vgf%20ynfg%20syvtug%20sbe%20Dnagnf%20nf%20DS6019%20gb%20Ubabyhyh%20naq%20Ivpgbeivyyr.%20Guvf%20jnf%20gur%20ynfg%20Obrvat%20767-200%20gb%20freir%20va%20gur%20Dnagnf%20syrrg%20naq%20vg%20jnf%20n%20fnq%20qnl%20gb%20frr%20vg%20qrcneg.&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=1393&NEb25uZWxs=2004-11-03%2000%3A00%3A00&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=23896%2F183&static=yes&width=1152&height=780&sok=JURER%20%20%28pa%20%3D%20%2723896%2F183%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=15&prev_id=0716705&next_id=NEXTID

 

What limits jumbos from landing at smaller airports isnt the lenth of the runway its the width. 1 and 4 will hang over the edges.

 

my first thought.... Paul Allen.

 

No, they said it wasn't an american or an european. Probably Emirates, Saudi Arabia or Brunei.

 

the owner of this a380 is Roman Abramovich....

 

Wow, I cant believe someone would have one of those as a private jet. What's it cost to fill something like that up?