07.25.07
A380 travel for private use
The more money you have – the more sudden whims you have to satisfy. And if finally you want to fly on business in nothing else than in the flying palace – in these times you can find people or company who can arrange it. And such a palace can be Airbus A380 which is nowadays the biggest airliner ever and it can hold more than 840 people – imagine, how much space you can have in this palace to take with you everything you like from your home: Jacuzzi, pool table, weight room and even the stable, if your horses are fine with flying.
Saudi Oil Prince? And this thing has already happened. Around a month ago an anonymous customer has bought the Jumbo-Jet for his private use. And this is not a regular Boeing, let alone the price, this is a huge, the biggest, double decker aircraft. And what is interesting, in the media it was also mentioned that he was neither from America nor Europe. The answer to this riddle seems to be obvious: some Sultan of Brunei of the other Sheikh. Or maybe some other person come the first to mind? But then isn’t it too much to crash into some office?
Fuss over a purchase. When this case gained publicity, great number of different protests, rumors and scandals came around. Greenpeace protested against a private use of such a big jet: enormous amount of used fuel, emission and environmental pollution. And why? Just because some guy decided to go to see his ma or to impress his friends. Governments got alerted, because this purchase seems kind of conspicuous to smuggle drugs – there a lot of space to put them in there! The rest of the people started the yelling about the world hunger, dying countries of the third world and poverty.
But actually, no one really knows the reason. Maybe this wealthy man just fell in love with such beautiful masterpiece of the aircraft design?