US$50,000 for two tickets: World’s most luxurious Airliner Makes Aviation History

The world’s largest and most luxurious passenger plane completed its first commercial flight Thursday, travelling from Singapore to Sydney. With 455 passengers and 30 crew aboard, including four pilots, the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 took off from Changi Airport and landed seven hours later in the Australian city. Read more via Citynews.ca

Airplane Extravagance: ‘Fast, Dazzling, Large …

… and simply Deluxe’, calls New York Times’ Europe correspondent Mark Landlery the Texas billionaire Robert M. Bass’s plans to build a supersonic jet. But Bass’s does not just invision a supersonic aircraft, he is about to develop theworld’s first supersonic business jet. The Texan was in the French capital Paris this week to promote the project, named ‘Aerion’, to industry insiders, aircraft companies and potential customers.