Airbus A380 : World's Largest Jet has Private Luxury Suites

[lino]

Seat on world's largest jet is a hot ticket. (Check out the link at the bottom for pricing.)




Passengers on some Airbus A380s can enjoy private luxury suites and shower cabins.

Singapore Airlines offers first-class suites -- private cabins with double beds (the airline has a no-sex policy).

Emirates has a shower cabin installed on its A380s for first-class passengers.















Check out the details here:
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/personal-fi ... senger-jet

[sx moneypit]

It never ceases to amaze me that planes this big and heavy can even leave the ground.

[Jesda]

A380 looks terrible.

[Razi]

Rumored to be modeled after Christian Slater's forehead.

[PoorManQ45]

Yey, more things only 1% can afford...

[sx moneypit]

Rumored to be modeled after Christian Slater's forehead.

[HashiriyaS14]

Yey, more things only 1% can afford...

[f1seb]

A380 looks terrible.

I think that this monster looks great!! You're just a Airbus hater.

[TOMMY VERCETTI]

Round-trip between London and Singapore on A380 flights was priced at $14,505 for a suite, or $1,556 for a coach seat. On Australia's Qantas Airways, the span was even greater. A coach seat from Los Angeles to Sydney and back on A380 flights for the same dates could be had for as little as $818; first-class seats on the same flights cost $24,538 round-trip. Way too much $$$$$. IMO.

[PoorManQ45]

That is simply insane.

It makes you wonder how many empty seats/suites they have. ANy empty seat/suite is purely a loss.

[f1seb]

That is simply insane.

It makes you wonder how many empty seats/suites they have. ANy empty seat/suite is purely a loss.

Don't you worry, all those seats will be filled by Americans who work for AIG, Citigroup, Merilly Lynch etc......

[sx moneypit]

That is simply insane.

It makes you wonder how many empty seats/suites they have. ANy empty seat/suite is purely a loss.

Don't you worry, all those seats will be filled by Americans who work for AIG, Citigroup, Merilly Lynch etc......

No doubt.

[HashiriyaS14]

A coach seat from Los Angeles to Sydney and back on A380 flights for the same dates could be had for as little as $818; first-class seats on the same flights cost $24,538 round-trip. Way too much $$$$$. IMO.

The people who are buying these suites aren't cross-shopping with coach seats. They're cross-shopping with NetJets or other private jet fractional time arrangements. A Gulfstream V from London to Singapore is going to be a LOT more than $25k/person, and so the A380 is comparably a better deal, especially considering you get a swank room as opposed to just a normal (albeit very nice) seat on the private jet.

Why is everyone so communist all of a sudden?


The suites are priced to absorb some vacancy, as is any airline seat. They don't have to fill the whole plane for each flight to be profitable. That's also the face price, I'm sure they book them for less depending on what their automated pricing algorithms tell them to do.

[PoorManQ45]

Why is everyone so communist all of a sudden?

I don't believe it's that.

Atleast that wasn't my point. I just find it fascinating how disassociated the uber-rich are from the rest of the population.

You have to wonder, how much cheaper would each seat be if that entire level was "coach"?

[numbnuts240]

they wouldn't have built it if there wasn't some sort of demand for such a thing. it doesn't make sense to us because, in retrospect, we're peasants.

[Encryptshun]

I just find it fascinating how disassociated the uber-rich are from the rest of the population.

If I were uber-rich, just WATCH how fast I'd disassociate.

[Jesda]

A380 looks terrible.

I think that this monster looks great!! You're just a Airbus hater.

I dont like my carbon fiber rudders to break and send me crashing into the earth.


If it aint Boeing, I aint going (unless its really cheap, I'd bet my life for $100).

[PoorManQ45]

If it aint Boeing, I aint going (unless its really cheap, I'd bet my life for $100).

Me too! I flew on three Airbus planes on a last minute flight. Bought it the day before for $198. Couldn't argue with that

[ADDirishboy]

I just find it fascinating how disassociated the uber-rich are from the rest of the population.

If I were uber-rich, just WATCH how fast I'd disassociate.

[Dittoz7]

Feels like Titanic all over again. :/

[Urabus GodofTraction]

You have to wonder, how much cheaper would each seat be if that entire level was "coach"?

Something tells me you couldn't cram $24,000 worth of coach seats into one of those suites.

I'm sure they've run the numbers and decided that having a luxury class netted them more money.

[Jesda]

AWW YEAH

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Boeing: Best quality reputation of any company... ever.

Automotive companies actually adopted their quality model and apply it to their own products... I know this because the guy that trained me said "OK, all this is from Boeing", and the books he gave us all had "Boeing" written somewhere on them.

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Yey, more things only 1% can afford...

That's a neat little graph.

I'm sure prices will go down and more "people mover" versions of this plane will be produced as the hype settles and more people look at this as a way to get to their destination, not a destination.

I foresee planes this large becoming somewhat of a norm in the future. Many people nowadays just want to get to their destination as quickly and hassle free as possible with no bull s***. If a good company like Southwest invested in planes this big and ran fewer flights, they'd dominate the airline industry more than they are already.

[bcar240]

The problem for the A380 is that many airline customers are starting to get fed up with the over-centralized hub and spoke models for air service. A passenger from Mississippi does not want to have to fly to Chicago to catch a large plane to LA to catch another flight back to Denver. Most of the people who I know that travel on any sort of a regular basis (at least once a year) are willing to pay a good bit more to get a more direct flight as opposed to an itinerary full of meandering connections. This is why I think the smaller planes like the 787 and similar will begin to become popular to fill the role of an expanded regional jet, connecting more cities directly and efficiently with smaller manifests as opposed to just carrying a boatload of people. The large planes will still definitely have a job to do though, such as transoceanic and routes between the more popular airports.

[PoorManQ45]

You have to wonder, how much cheaper would each seat be if that entire level was "coach"?

Something tells me you couldn't cram $24,000 worth of coach seats into one of those suites.

I'm sure they've run the numbers and decided that having a luxury class netted them more money.

Obviously we don't have the data, but I'd bet that they did this purely as a novelty.

There will be empty suites every flight. There probably won't be many empty coach seats...

[Bubba1]

Obviously we don't have the data, but I'd bet that they did this purely as a novelty.

There will be empty suites every flight. There probably won't be many empty coach seats...

Do you honestly believe a commercial airline will make seat limiting luxury modifications to a new, expensive jet purely a novelty, and not because they think it'll make money for them by offering it?

Can I have some of what your smoking?

[numbnuts240]

again

they wouldn't have built it if there wasn't some sort of demand for such a thing. it doesn't make sense to us because, in retrospect, we're peasants.

[Bubba1]

again

they wouldn't have built it if there wasn't some sort of demand for such a thing. it doesn't make sense to us because, in retrospect, we're peasants.

great minds think alike....

[HashiriyaS14]

You have to wonder, how much cheaper would each seat be if that entire level was "coach"?

Something tells me you couldn't cram $24,000 worth of coach seats into one of those suites.

I'm sure they've run the numbers and decided that having a luxury class netted them more money.

No...you're wrong and Charlie is right. It isn't a "novelty"

These people aren't idiots, it's not like they configure these airplanes from an aesthetic perspective. They are obviously getting more $/sf of cabin space in the suites than via coach seats. Thus, they want to have as many suites as they can keep full. I've no doubt that this was modeled very precisely, why on earth would they do this as a novelty? This is their business, they want to make money.

I just think you have a tough time believing that any rational person would spend $25k on an airline ticket, although a normal Concorde seat used to cost like $14k and fractional private jet time for a flight that long would probably be $50,000 per seat.

Besides, all these layouts are modular. They can pull out one of those suites and throw in 8 coach seats or vice versa in a couple hours if they're so inclined. It all just bolts in.