Posted in Airlines, Luxury, tagged Business Jet, Composite Body, Falcon DX, Gulfstream G20, Hawker Beechcraft 4000, Leather, Luxury, Millions, Most Expensive Private Jets, Private Jet on August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier I had blogged about the world’s most expensive private jets. Since the Hawker 4000 is below 30 million tag to qualify for the top ten, I had completely ignored it, but got a renewed interest recently with CNN and Fortune reporting about it.
Features of this business jet -
Price Tag – $21,000,000 ($2 mil cheaper [...]
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Planes, Video, tagged A380, Airbus, Awesome, Dubai, Emirates Airlines, First Showers, Luxury, Spectacular, UAE on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was wondering what would Emirates do the top the Singapore Airlines’ luxury first class cabin – well, they came up with the first showers in the sky.
The video starts from the showers/spa and shows the lounge/bar area of the Emirates Airlines’ new Airbus A380. Simply Spectacular!!!!
Posted in Planes, tagged Air Force, Comfort Capsule, Ferry, Luxurious, Luxury, Military Planes, Top Brass, US Air Force, Washington Post on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Washington Post reported that US Air Force’s top leadership sought (for 3 years) $16 mil in counter-terrorism fund for “comfort capsules” on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world. It is reported that the production of the first capsule of 2 sealed rooms has already begun.This report has resulted in [...]
Posted in Airlines, tagged 757, All-Business, British Airways, Buy-out, Frantz Yvelin, French, L'Avion, Luxury, New York, Newark, OpenSkies, Orly, Paris on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
British Airways seem to be heading the all-business US – EU(or Europe) route. As a strategic deal that will bolster their OpenSkies subsidiary, it bought the two plane French Airline L’Avion that flies between Pairs (Orly) and New York (Newark) for £54m (or $107.6 million).
Facts about L’Avion -
Founded by – 31 year old French [...]
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Tickets, Travel Location, tagged Air Lanka, Heathrow, London, Luxury, luxury holiday, Maldives, Sri Lanka, SriLankan Airlines, Taj Exotica on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Starting October 26th 2008, SriLankan Airlines, national airline of Sri Lanka and previously know as Air Lanka, will start a new flight between London’s Heathrow Airport and the island nation (and luxury holiday location) Maldives.
From Skyscanner -
“Chanaka Olagama, manager of Sri Lankan Airlines’ UK and Ireland
operations, said: “We recognise the need to introduce this [...]
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Tickets, tagged All-Business, Boeing 757, British Airways, EU-US Open Skies, JFK, Launch, Luxury, New York, Open Skies, Open Skies Airline, Orly, Paris on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
British Airways is launching a subsidiary called “Open Skies Airline” that will be a transatlantic luxury-service airline. The airline is taking advantage of the transatlantic “open skies” agreement(or EU-US Open Skies Agreement between European Union and United States.
The first flight starts today, Thursday June 19th 2008 from Paris’ Orly airport to New York’s JFK [...]
Posted in Airlines, Travel Woes, tagged All-Business, Bankcrupt, Dubai, Eos, London, Luton, Luxury, Maxjet, Newark, Silverjet on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Silverjet, the Biritsh all-business class airlines based at London Luton Airport, has stopped flights as of today, May 30th 2008.
From Bloomberg -
“The airline, whose last flight left Dubai today for thecompany’s base at London Luton Airport, appointed administratorsafter failing to get $5 million in emergency funding from MiddleEastern investor Viceroy Holdings LLC, it said [...]
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Planes, tagged A340, All-Business, Business, Cost, Iphone dock, Ipod, LCD, Los Angeles, Luxury, New York, Singapore on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Singapore Airlines has been selling so many business class tickets on its routes from NYC-Singapore and LA-Singapore that “it is converting the five ultra-long-haul Airbus A340-500 jets that it uses on those routes to all-business-class seating“. Currently the aircrafts are – “outfitted in two classes: 63 business-class seats and 117 seats in what Singapore calls [...]
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, tagged Luxury, Richard Branson, Virgin Atlantic on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Virgin Atlantic’s president Sir Richard Branson is considering axing the famous on-board massage (and manicure) treatments. He mentioned that the Upper class passengers (who are currently offered the service) would rather go to sleep, then use the service. It was reported last week that all of the 280 beauty therapists had been called for a [...]
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