The Jet Business Opens London Store To Market Aircraft

The Jet Business is taking aircraft sales right to billionaire main street with the opening of the first storefront retail outlet of its type.

Right at the heart of the business aviation boutique is a mockup of an Airbus ACJ319 cabin with a sample interior that can be removed to allow other manufacturers’ cabins to be represented in the space.

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

October 10, 2011

The Jet Business is taking aircraft sales right to billionaire main street with the opening in London of what it claims is the first storefront retail outlet of its type. The first store in the new chain is due to open this week at Hyde Park Corner right where three of the UK capital’s most exclusive neighborhoods–Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Mayfair–converge. Now it is laying plans to open a store in the Chinese capital Beijing and, eventually, another in New York City.

Right at the heart of the business aviation boutique is a mockup of an Airbus ACJ319 cabin with a sample interior that can be removed to allow other manufacturers’ cabins to be represented in the space. At the front end of the ACJ cabin, which has been developed by UK-based interiors specialist Design Q, is a conference room area, which leads back into a bedroom.

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