More Money Than Sense Or A Very Generous Man?
Aussie businessman Julian Hayward has just forked out US$100,380 for two first class seats on the inaugural flight of the new Airbus A380 from Sydney to Singapore on October 26. Singapore Airlines is the first airlne to run scheduled services on the 471-seat super jumbo, and for the first flight sold tickets in an online auction. Proceeds of the auction will be donated to charity, and so far more than $400,000 has been raised.
We first reported the online auction here.
Sydney to Singapore is around 8 hours flying time, so My Hayward and his lucky flying partner will be paying more than US$6000 per hour. At a hundred bucks a minute we hope they get their fill of honey roasted peanuts and other assorted first class goodies.
Oh, did we mention the hundred grand was only for one way flights?
Click here if you're interested in picking up a cattle class fare in the online auction.
Filed under: Asia, Singapore, Australia, Airlines, Transportation
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Sep 6th 2007 @ 11:16AM
Marilyn Terrell said...
That's nothing compared to what Russian oil baron Roman Abramovich paid to have an Airbus A380 fitted out as his own private jet:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/6123
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