Abramovich to use Airbus A380 as private jet

AF332 · Post by **AF332** » 05 Sep 2007, 16:14

Abramovich to use Airbus A380 as private jet

PARIS (AFP) - The billionaire Russian owner of Chelsea football club, Roman Abramovich, has ordered an Airbus A380, the world's biggest airliner, for use as his private jet, a report said Wednesday...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070905/en ... usfblengpr

Philippe

RemoteControl · Post by **RemoteControl** » 05 Sep 2007, 16:46

He's really gonna limit himself as to airports he can use his fancy big jet into.

/typo

TWA · Post by **TWA** » 05 Sep 2007, 16:52

nice duplex

Acid-drop · Post by **Acid-drop** » 05 Sep 2007, 16:58

seems like the most ridiculous and expensive way to say "mine is bigger than yours"

Stij · Post by **Stij** » 05 Sep 2007, 17:06

I saw his Boeing Business Jet once at Olbia Airport. I doubt an A380 can land there. Well, no more Costa Esmeralda for him.

Cheers,

Stij

smokejumper · Post by **smokejumper** » 05 Sep 2007, 17:07

Acid-drop wrote:seems like the most ridiculous and expensive way to say "mine is bigger than yours"

I must admit, his (fortune) IS bigger than mine!

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » 05 Sep 2007, 17:42

Stij wrote:I saw his Boeing Business Jet once at Olbia Airport. I doubt an A380 can land there. Well, no more Costa Esmeralda for him.

Cheers,

Stij

He'll just fly to Rome with the A380, and then take the BBJ out of the luggage hold and fly onwards with that

I doubt he'll be getting rid of the 767 and BBJ, so he has all the options he needs.

Outsync · Post by **Outsync** » 05 Sep 2007, 18:20

He will probably need the cargo space to transport his wallet aswell!

(and his players)

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 05 Sep 2007, 19:15

Net Worth: $18.7 bil

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07b ... _DG3G.html

CX · Post by CX » 06 Sep 2007, 08:43

Probably one of those very few A380s to have a swimming pool/gym and everything in it..

Nat · Post by **Nat** » 19 Sep 2007, 11:18

It is already known that it was fake information - one of the many pseudo-evens surrounding Abramovich. His official representatives said he did not buy anything of this kind.