Some scolds have flamed me for writing about the super-jumbo A380 being marketed as a private and/or business jet.
Kindly do not shoot the piano player … uh, messenger.
Here are some representations of what a private A380 will look like, by way of Lufthansa Technik, the aircraft maintenance and overhaul company. The A380 costs about $310 million without cabin necessities like seats and bulkheads. For the whole nine yards of plush interior design, figure on another $100 million.
And here’s another designer’s rendition of space on a private A380, via smidgy.com:
http://www.smidgy.com/smidgy/2007/03/way_over_the_to.html
And another set:
Meanwhile, I’m headed out west, and scrambling to try to change from a middle coach seat to an aisle.
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