THE Royal Family of Qatar on the Arabian Peninsula has put a family Boeing 747 up for sale, because they say they’ve got another one and want to downsize.
At 500-million British pounds, which is around 876.5-million Australian dollars, this flying royal palace was bought brand new in 2012, and it then took Boeing a whole two years to fit it out at their San Antonio plant to the Qatari’s specifications.
And amazingly, it’s clocked-up a mere 436 hours in four years of royal flying duties… which is just eighteen 24-hour days, or thirty-six 12-hour days, meaning it is still virtually as-new.
Australian specialist aviation website, airlineratings.com says the plane has First Class style seating for just 76 passengers served by 18 crew in several lounge areas, a double-bedroom suite for the royal couple, the royals’ dining room with a table seating fourteen and doubling as a boardroom meeting area, eight bathrooms on the main deck and two on the upper deck, and a fully fitted-out medical centre.
And there are two galleys on the main deck and a third on the upper deck, with each having their own catering crews.
The little State of Qatar has a population of 2.6m of whom only 313,000 are Qatari citizens, the other 2-million-odd being expatriates employed in or associated with its natural gas and oil reserves that are the third largest in the world.
Qatari Royal Family Boeing 747 for sale
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