Cabin Interior and Electronics
VIP jet interiors take time
It can take up to two years to outfit a VIP widebody jet.

It can take up to two years to outfit a VIP widebody jet. Even the video featuring the Andrew Winch Designs scheme for a Boeing 787 on the Lufthansa Technik (LHT) booth here (No. 1240) took four months to complete. LHT has a widebody slot open in September, but it is already the subject of negotiations and may be taken soon. The next availability is at the end of 2009 and, as EBACE Convention News reported yesterday, the company already has bookings until 2013.

Walter Heerdt, the Hamburg-based MRO’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, said Monday’s announcements by Boeing and Airbus of sales of six BBJs and five A318 Elites underlined the fact that the VIP market was reaching new peaks. Reassuringly for customers who have ordered more than 20 Elites, LHT was able to complete the first example in just four months.

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