Posted on 11/12/2007 8:12:33 AM PST by Stoat
The Prince certainly needs to be kept safe from Wahabbi terrorists who were trained in Saudi-funded madrassas.....
IIRC there’s been an order for a single A380 for an unidentified customer on Airbus’ books for a while. It wouldn’t make sense for any airline to order just one and IIRC the single order had been linked with Roman Abramovich. What happened with that?
We pay for this stuff through oil prices. Their profits are over the top and at our expense.
How I yearn for the days before we made these Islamic two-faced Arabs wealthy.
First on the block to own one. Now that the ice has been broken, they’ll be flying out the door.
And I thought that Dubai was stupid to order these things.
Ever wonder how many miles of sewage pipe for the squalid refugee camps in Gaza could’ve been bought for what the “sheet” paid for this new toy?
If only the DEMS could tax him.
Eurabia has arrived.
Those crazy Arabs....
Aren’t you glad we’re paying $3.20 a gallon for this?
“Saudi prince buys world’s first ‘Flying Palace’ (Airbus A380 “Super-Jumbo”)”
Good for the prince.
And we should thank him for drawing the fire from any shoulder-launched
surface-to-air inventory that Al Queda has.
“He’s also the largest shareholder of Citibank.”
Without any qualms over the decidedly NON-Islamic practice of
charging usurious interest on Citibank credit cards!
Do you think $3.20 a gallon is expensive? If so, take a vacation in Europe and let’s talk when you come back.
I’m aware gas in Europe is more like $6/gallon, but I was speaking for Americans specifically in my post, since most FReepers are Americans.
Perhaps if the Europeans ditched their socialized government-run health care that requires stuff like gas to be taxed so the govt can pay for everyone’s coverage, gas wouldn’t be so expensive there.
Good for the Prince. I won’t ever fly on a 380 - flying palace or commercial. I think this aircraft is a dangerous piece of junk. Discovery or the History channel has run a documentary on this aircraft and part of its high price is its outsourced assembly. When I saw that one huge section had to be trucked about 20 miles through a small town that forced the truck to transport the fuselage section within 2 feet either side of the buildings along the road, I KNEW these people were nuts!!!
Wonder what that thing costs turnkey ready. 500 Million?
If you want the ultimate gadget on the market, Boeing simply isn’t an option anymore.
The fact that our predecessors put our security in the hands of Saudi Arabia and other hostile, backward countries is a treasonable offense, IMHO.
This story has now been linked by Drudge, and he's linking to this Breitbart page which has a link to an video of a Singapore Airlines edition of this aircraft. The video shows, among other things, upscale "suites" available in the plane
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