#1 permalink
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: N/A
Posts: 37
Prince Alwaleed's tricked out 380
#2 permalink
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Hilton, Sheraton or Marriott
Posts: 1,752
Complete BS story. He sold it on to the Saudi Royal family a few years back. They have no use for it & it's sitting in storage.
But the guy is keen on as much coverage as possible and is not about to refute any of this hot air.
Similar article in the UK Daily Mail this week
here but its complete hogwash; isn't happening.
But it makes for a great story.
#4 permalink
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Dubai and Sunderland
Posts: 527
Read the storey again!! For the word tricked read "fitted"
#5 permalink
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: UK
Posts: 346
Why not just give that ammount of money to cancer research or hundreds of charities in africa's etc...
He'd be very limited in his movement with that moster anyway. Utterly useless!
Last edited by John21UK; 23rd Dec 2012 at 11:16 .
#6 permalink
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: ME
Posts: 4,851
Flaphandlemover, google the Saad group and you will find out why that A340 is subject to legal proceedings.
#7 permalink
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: uk
Posts: 145
John21Uk
#8 permalink
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Where the Money Takes Me
Posts: 728
Which completion facility will put their head on the block to go to contract on this aircraft? That is the question.
#9 permalink
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Hilton, Sheraton or Marriott
Posts: 1,752
A non-issue as there as absolutely no plan to put a contract in place.
#10 permalink
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Gulf playing Golf
Posts: 920
4PH - you sound very sure. What is your source?
#11 permalink
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Pub
Posts: 100
Rest assured, 4HP has his facts right.
#12 permalink
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: earth
Posts: 176
Is it Alwaleed or Aladeen?
#13 permalink
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Gulf playing Golf
Posts: 920
So why are they looking for crew for it?
#14 permalink
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: ME
Posts: 4,851
Payscale. Considering that it will take about two years to outfit an aircraft like this, I would have thought that it was premature to hire pilots.
#15 permalink
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Go to the second sand dune, then turn right.
Posts: 106
the artical didnt mention anything about the bar. I want to know how big is the bar?
#16 permalink
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Gulf playing Golf
Posts: 920
We will see. Whoever owns it wont mothball it, so one day it will surface somewhere
#17 permalink
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Gulf playing Golf
Posts: 920
#18 permalink
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: ME
Posts: 4,851
Quote:
Whoever owns it wont mothball it,
it wouldn't be the first, look at the 2 VIP MD11's, or the first BBJ3 or more recently a B748 that went straight from Seattle to the US desert.
All were purchased in a different financial era.
Mutt
#19 permalink
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: out there somewhere...
Posts: 655
I know of one 748 that went to the desert recently, but that was for installation work, it's now in Europe for an interior. I don't think anyone will ever see a VVIP 380 out there for a long time.
This ad will disappear if you login
