Flying with the super-rich

Posted On October 5, 2008

Many of you in Whitehorse will have seen the large private jet that sat at the airport for about 10 days as big-game hunting season began. EC-KJH was a Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global Express owned by a charter company from Spain.

Did you wonder what a bird like that would look like inside? Well, see below – even in executive configuration I figured that she’d hold more than 12 people (plus 2 flight attendants, of course), but I was wrong. She’s set up to convert to 5 twin beds and one double, easily making the 7,957-km flight from Madrid to Whitehorse without stops, cruising at 910 km/h.

Even in my lottery-ticket dreams I don’t travel quite like that – at least I hadn’t before I saw this plane! 🙂