Steve VarsanoFounder at The Jet Business

Traveling on a corporate jet is usually uneventful, but some have used them in unique ways.

Name: Traveling on a corporate jet is usually uneventful, but some have used them in unique ways.
Uploaded: 2025-01-10T17:58:41+00:00
Duration: 1 min 1 s
Channel: Steve Varsano
Description: In this monologue, the speaker discusses how corporate jet cabins are typically designed for long flights with a focus on contemporary, clean, and…

10 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker discusses how corporate jet cabins are typically designed for long flights with a focus on contemporary, clean, and weight‑efficient interiors, noting that most users keep the design fairly conventional and functional. He contrasts this with older, less attractive designs and highlights a few striking examples of creative repurposing: a stripped‑down jet transformed into a beach party venue filled with sand and chairs, and a large jet converted into a luxury hotel suite perched on a Thai cliff with full living amenities. The speaker also points out that as jets age and become uneconomical to operate, owners increasingly look for novel ways to reuse them.

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Nobody really does anything super crazy in these things. You got to sit there looking at the same little tube for 10 hours or 5 hours or 14 hours or something. So if you do something really wild and crazy, you'll get bored with it and you won't want to sit there too long. So unless you go into a Boeing or an Airbus like this airplane, and then you can go from room to room and go into a bedroom, shower, and living room stuff. Really, people are pretty boring with the design. It's very contemporary style. In the old days, they were really ugly airplanes, but I think people got smarter today and it's much more contemporary, it's cleaner, and it's also more economical from the standpoint of weight. One time when a guy was gut his airplane and redo the whole airplane. It was a big airplane. He decided to have a beach party on the plane and actually filled the place up with sand and beach chairs in there. Pretty unique kind of thing. And people who actually made airplanes into hotels. Thailand, it sits on a cliff. You can rent out the whole thing and it's a whole suite with a living room, dining room, bathroom, shower, looking out over the ocean. So there's some pretty wild things done with the airplanes. But now as they got older and older, some of them are just too uneconomical to own and fly. So people are actually finding unique things to do with them.