“Environmental groups were annoyed by the news.”
Some rich guy bought a super-mega-jumbo airbus plane to use as his personal jet, for him and his entourage. The article says it would take a year to make the jet suitable for private use … wonder what that entails?
The money shot is the third-to-last graf: “Environmental groups were annoyed by the news.”
Joss Garman, from Plane Stupid, said that buying a superjumbo for private use was like “buying a filthy coal-fired power station just to use to charge up your mobile phone.”
» Read the article, Airbus superjumbo for private use.
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