Check Out The Inside Of The World’s Largest Private Jet That Looks Like A Flying Mansion (25 Pics)
If you ever plan on getting your very own personal jet, there’s one airplane that’s bound to pop out from the rest of the crowd while you’re doing your research. Meet the Boeing Business Jet 747-8i, one of the largest private jets in the world (and the largest in active operation right now) and the perfect example of what real luxury in the air looks like.
There are only a few privately owned 747-8i jets and it’s an elite symbol of power. This jet is usually used by the world’s governments and for transporting the heads of state. The US Air Force is even developing a 747-8i jet as a replacement airplane for the current Air Force One used by the president.
The company behind one Middle Eastern businessman’s 747-8i luxurious interior is none other than the famed French interior design firm Cabinet Alberto Pinto. Scroll down and feast your eyes on what the firm’s final result looks like.
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This is the Boeing Business Jet 747-8i, the largest private jet in active operation in the entire world
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A businessman from the Middle East asked French interior design firm Cabinet Alberto Pinto to design the interior
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It took the firm 4 years to design and implement everything. This is the master bedroom, found in the nose of the airplane, underneath the cockpit
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The jet has everything: from lounges to dining rooms. When you’re inside, it’s easy to forget you’re on an airplane
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This is what the master bedroom looks like from another angle
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The 1A and 1B seats have been turned into a two-person loveseat
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There are plenty of quality of life design choices like touchscreens that control the light
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The master bathroom has a full mirror and sink
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The jet even has a walk-in shower! It’s very rare for airplanes to have these
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The designer was given complete freedom and went for a soft modern style
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The owner of the jet wanted something simple that would feel like a family home
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According to the designer, Yves Pickardt, simplicity is the true luxury
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The design project was completed on time and under budget
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Here’s one of the guest bedrooms
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Even the smaller bedrooms have their very own private bathrooms with mirrors and sinks
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This is the main foyer that separates the master bedroom from the rest of the jet. The staircase leads to the airplane’s upper floor
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The jet has bookshelves as well as a massive TV
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Here’s the cockpit. It’s right above the master bedroom
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There are plenty of couches everywhere so you can sit down and rest or read a book wherever you want to
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Office spaces and dining rooms are all furnished with leather armchairs
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Here’s the centerpiece of the airplane: the salon
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The salon has three couches that are great for meetings or just relaxing
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This spot is perfect for having dinner, playing tabletop games, or even some poker
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Every single chair can be adjusted with switches in the armrests
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There’s enough space for additional passengers or staff members flying on the jet, too
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The jet’s owner gave designer Yves Pickardt “carte blanche” to make the airplane feel like a family home. Pickardt told Altitudes Magazine that his idea was to give the jet a “soft modern style.”
According to Pickardt, the owner wasn’t looking for something “outrageously luxurious, with gold and diamonds.” Instead, he wanted simplicity. “Which in the end is indeed the true luxury,” the designer said.
It took Cabinet Alberto Pinto a whole 4 years to design and implement this particular 747-8i’s interior, writes Business Insider. With 250 feet from nose to tail, this is the largest aircraft that the French firm has designed. It has two levels and over 400 people can fit inside the airplane if it were to be configured to transport airline passengers.
The businessman’s private jet has everything from suites and lounges to staterooms and dining rooms (not to mention bathrooms, of course). You can find the master bedroom in the nose of the jet, right beneath the cockpit. This makes sense because the front of the jet is the furthest away from the engines, so it’s way easier to fall asleep there than elsewhere.
This particular 747-8i has plenty of things that you won’t see on a regular Boeing airplane, like the 1A and 1B seats being replaced with a two-person loveseat. There are lots of small personal touches like personal reading lamps, bedside tables, and touchscreens that control the lights. Meanwhile, the master bathroom has a walk-in shower with a full mirror—when you’re inside, you can easily forget that you’re flying, instead of living in a luxurious estate.
Here’s how people on the internet reacted when they saw photos of the luxury jet
Textbook definition of 'out of touch': "The owner of the jet wanted something simple that would feel like a family home" and "According to the designer, Yves Pickardt, simplicity is the true luxury" Apparently combining gold plating with neutral colors instead of purple and blue is considered 'simple'. It is still lovely, though!
That's what I was thinking! Why are Rich-People-Things always beige/ brown/ gold??
Load More Replies... The owner has definitely paid a lot of money for it, but from a design standpoint I find it outdated and a little tacky at times.
No pool? I clicked expecting at least a hot tub. Rookie opulence, we gotta raise that up.
I was thinking a hot tub with a glass floor would have been obviously necessary
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I've been on a jet that size...crammed in with hundreds of other passengers that is.
Does the designer know that there is other colors than beige? Dark beige - light beige... with a courageous splash of middle brown...
That Saudi oil money good to own oil I guess... to gaudy for me though!
That design is neither simple nor modern. It looks like the 1960s and Art Deco crashed into a giant pile of shiny, beige-brown poo. What a waste of space and ressources.
I think the interior design is ugly! Specially the colors. I wouldn't hire that designer. LOL. Tacky is the right word.
The article clearly mentions "Middle Eastern" person - The Top 1% of those nations (royal families of each country and their cronies) are filthy rich beyond your wildest imagination. They are so rich that they are not even included in the Forbes richest persons - specifically because their families take an unhealthy proportion of what is the wealth of a nation. These guys make the remainder of the worlds Top 1% look like us compared to the rest of the world's Top 1% (with the obvious exception of perhaps the Top 10 richest people in the world. Those countries are still ruled by royalty, with tremendous power, technology and weaponry to help monitor and crush any resentment. My family used to rent a villa owned by the Emir (King) of Kuwait, which were located adjacent to his main palace. He had 42 wives and over a 100 concubines, all housed in his rows and rows of town homes along the edges of his palace, with a sea front view for each unit. It is a Different World.
I bet he isn't as happy as I am, and I don't even own a cellphone and I am glad about that too.
While people die of hunger and disease, people do this. If I could facepalm I would be left without a face. But who really is to blame, the rich who makes the net, or the common people who fall into it.
There are more colors in the world though, designer people. You can use them in away that isnt to “personalized.” This would drive me crazy. It would look cool all white, maybe... It does look like a belowdecks living space in a fancy yacht.
I wonder, are the people complaining about this also complaining about Air Force One? And don't tell me the President needs it as a mobile command post - that's what the E-4 is for.
Seriously- If you have these amounts of money at your hands, why not put it into something meaningful? It's ok to have fun, but does it need to be this big and extreme? If it stayed grounded it might pass as a costy fun thing. But putting this monster of a plane up in the air, polluting it with tons of kerosene just for someone to travel in their sense of luxury. Sickening.
Didn't even look at the pics cause I already had to laugh at the title that to me basically said "look at what some super rich can do with their money that you will never be entitled to". And here we are discussing how flying is bad for the environment, and that means "normal" flying where 100+ people use it to get from a to b and not where one or a very small number of rich people let themselves (and probably a bunch of staff) be flown around to celebrate their excessive lives. And if you are wondering why I'm trolling around under this post: I miss the time when bp was all cats and dogs and all that happy funny positivity to get my mind off things...
We'd all like one and the ability to pay for it too.... Just think of how many people this employs both directly and indirectly.
I know its weird but I like the plane itself more than the interior. ( plane geek here )
No expense spared In the c**k pit, damn at least give the pilots luxury seats jezz they keeping you alive in the clouds
It remines me of those vans in the 90s that had a strip of wood paneling down the side....
I really can't judge because if I had that kind of money I'd probably go bat s**t crazy myself. I'm guessing most of this stuff is used when the plane is on the ground. Who's gonna take a shower in flight? I get nervous just using a restroom on a regular peons plane.
I think the interior is beautiful, but I couldn't really live comfortably even in this jet when I'm constantly 35,000 feet above ground 😂
To think some people still believe you earn billions of dollors.. Poor criminals get sent to jail but the rich ones get to fly these ones.
Wow. Trying be woke, but just ridiculously out of touch.
Load More Replies... Textbook definition of 'out of touch': "The owner of the jet wanted something simple that would feel like a family home" and "According to the designer, Yves Pickardt, simplicity is the true luxury" Apparently combining gold plating with neutral colors instead of purple and blue is considered 'simple'. It is still lovely, though!
That's what I was thinking! Why are Rich-People-Things always beige/ brown/ gold??
Load More Replies... The owner has definitely paid a lot of money for it, but from a design standpoint I find it outdated and a little tacky at times.
No pool? I clicked expecting at least a hot tub. Rookie opulence, we gotta raise that up.
I was thinking a hot tub with a glass floor would have been obviously necessary
Load More Replies... I've been on a jet that size...crammed in with hundreds of other passengers that is.
Does the designer know that there is other colors than beige? Dark beige - light beige... with a courageous splash of middle brown...
That Saudi oil money good to own oil I guess... to gaudy for me though!
That design is neither simple nor modern. It looks like the 1960s and Art Deco crashed into a giant pile of shiny, beige-brown poo. What a waste of space and ressources.
I think the interior design is ugly! Specially the colors. I wouldn't hire that designer. LOL. Tacky is the right word.
The article clearly mentions "Middle Eastern" person - The Top 1% of those nations (royal families of each country and their cronies) are filthy rich beyond your wildest imagination. They are so rich that they are not even included in the Forbes richest persons - specifically because their families take an unhealthy proportion of what is the wealth of a nation. These guys make the remainder of the worlds Top 1% look like us compared to the rest of the world's Top 1% (with the obvious exception of perhaps the Top 10 richest people in the world. Those countries are still ruled by royalty, with tremendous power, technology and weaponry to help monitor and crush any resentment. My family used to rent a villa owned by the Emir (King) of Kuwait, which were located adjacent to his main palace. He had 42 wives and over a 100 concubines, all housed in his rows and rows of town homes along the edges of his palace, with a sea front view for each unit. It is a Different World.
I bet he isn't as happy as I am, and I don't even own a cellphone and I am glad about that too.
While people die of hunger and disease, people do this. If I could facepalm I would be left without a face. But who really is to blame, the rich who makes the net, or the common people who fall into it.
There are more colors in the world though, designer people. You can use them in away that isnt to “personalized.” This would drive me crazy. It would look cool all white, maybe... It does look like a belowdecks living space in a fancy yacht.
I wonder, are the people complaining about this also complaining about Air Force One? And don't tell me the President needs it as a mobile command post - that's what the E-4 is for.
Seriously- If you have these amounts of money at your hands, why not put it into something meaningful? It's ok to have fun, but does it need to be this big and extreme? If it stayed grounded it might pass as a costy fun thing. But putting this monster of a plane up in the air, polluting it with tons of kerosene just for someone to travel in their sense of luxury. Sickening.
Didn't even look at the pics cause I already had to laugh at the title that to me basically said "look at what some super rich can do with their money that you will never be entitled to". And here we are discussing how flying is bad for the environment, and that means "normal" flying where 100+ people use it to get from a to b and not where one or a very small number of rich people let themselves (and probably a bunch of staff) be flown around to celebrate their excessive lives. And if you are wondering why I'm trolling around under this post: I miss the time when bp was all cats and dogs and all that happy funny positivity to get my mind off things...
We'd all like one and the ability to pay for it too.... Just think of how many people this employs both directly and indirectly.
I know its weird but I like the plane itself more than the interior. ( plane geek here )
No expense spared In the c**k pit, damn at least give the pilots luxury seats jezz they keeping you alive in the clouds
It remines me of those vans in the 90s that had a strip of wood paneling down the side....
I really can't judge because if I had that kind of money I'd probably go bat s**t crazy myself. I'm guessing most of this stuff is used when the plane is on the ground. Who's gonna take a shower in flight? I get nervous just using a restroom on a regular peons plane.
I think the interior is beautiful, but I couldn't really live comfortably even in this jet when I'm constantly 35,000 feet above ground 😂
To think some people still believe you earn billions of dollors.. Poor criminals get sent to jail but the rich ones get to fly these ones.
Wow. Trying be woke, but just ridiculously out of touch.
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