It’s like a fancy hotel room above the clouds, literally raising the bar on partying.
A Dubai-based company has transformed an A220 private jet into a VIP skyclub.
The aircraft, dubbed 9H-Five (nine-hotel-five), may be chartered by anyone for up to 12 hours, allowing passengers to party above the skies.
The 9H-five is based on the Airbus TwoTwenty ‘Bizjet,’ a 35-meter jet with 786 square feet (73m2) of usable capacity.
Normally, a private plane of this size appears like a conference room at a business hotel, but not this time.
The 9H-Five is styled after a lounge club in Miami, Las Vegas, or Hollywood.
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LED lights, which can project any color, including fluorescent tones, replace the usual white and yellow lights.
The windows have been redesigned to seem like portholes of a yacht, and the seats have been upholstered to look like the cockpit of a supercar.
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And there’s more.
A standard TwoTwenty can have up to six distinct parts, but this one just has four to make it more roomy and elegant.
This allows each segment to be larger.
There’s a dining room, two living spaces with a total of 16 chairs and a 55-inch TV screen, and a private suite with a bathroom.
There’s also space for up to 60 individual pieces of luggage, so there’s no need to travel light.
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The A220 private jet has a range of 10,000 km (5,600 miles) and can travel at speeds of up to Mach 0.82 (1,000 km/h).
In layman’s terms, this means it can fly faster than a commercial airplane from Shanghai to Los Angeles or London to Tokyo.
Obviously, because this is a private plane, it can go wherever you choose.
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This leads us to the (expensive) elephant in the room: the price.
The jet may be chartered for as little as $14,000 per hour, not including taxes and other fees.
This means that a round-trip flight from New York to London would cost roughly $91,000.
But there is one advantage.
You can split the fee among 15 persons because the plane seats up to 15 people..