Matt Molnar
2008-02-12, 02:03 PM
See your $2 Citibank ATM fees and $4 gallons of gas at work!
Alwaleed plans $176mn Airbus refit (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510931-alwaleed-plans-176mn-airbus-refit)
by Lynne Roberts on Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud is planning to spend up to $176 million customising his private Airbus 380 ‘Flying Palace’, it was reported Monday.
The world’s 13th richest man, who became the first private customer for the $320 million superjumbo in November, is to splash more than half the value of the plane itself on a ‘Lawrence of Arabia meets Star Wars’ interior, said the UK’s Daily Mail.
According to German media, a Hamburg firm has received an order for a marble-panelled dining room to be constructed “next to a bar with curtains to mimic tents of the Arabian desert”, the newspaper said. Read more... (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510931-alwaleed-plans-176mn-airbus-refit)
Alwaleed plans $176mn Airbus refit (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510931-alwaleed-plans-176mn-airbus-refit)
by Lynne Roberts on Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud is planning to spend up to $176 million customising his private Airbus 380 ‘Flying Palace’, it was reported Monday.
The world’s 13th richest man, who became the first private customer for the $320 million superjumbo in November, is to splash more than half the value of the plane itself on a ‘Lawrence of Arabia meets Star Wars’ interior, said the UK’s Daily Mail.
According to German media, a Hamburg firm has received an order for a marble-panelled dining room to be constructed “next to a bar with curtains to mimic tents of the Arabian desert”, the newspaper said. Read more... (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510931-alwaleed-plans-176mn-airbus-refit)