
A palace that flies
Have you ever looked around a corporate jet and wished you had more room? Room perhaps to transport not only your closest advisers but also dozens of staff members, in a space the size of a large home? That's what private customers for Airbus' mammoth A380 will have.
While a completion center has yet to be chosen for the prince's A380, which is scheduled to be delivered in 2010, it will reportedly include lavish living quarters, a business center to monitor the owner's extensive financial holdings, a theater and what is believed to be the first Jacuzzi certified for in-flight use. The VIP liner will transport fewer than 100 people in a space that could carry up to 800 in the A380's economy configuration.