Airbus A380 - Mile High Club Sex Thrill A Thing Of The Past?

Well, that largely depends on how imaginative you are, doesn’t it?

The Airbus A380-800 debuts to Sydney this week. It’ll certainly make headlines for a few months as both passengers and airports get accustomed to the biggest civilian air transport in the world.

Image courtesy of Airbus.com

The Flight International blog ran a great piece on the Airbus A380-800 handover to customer Singapore Airlines.

You can catch the A380 details on Singapore Airlines’ dedicated site here.

Image courtesy of Airbus.com

So just what is CEO Mr. Chew Choon Seng smiling at? The elegance of the Suites, or something else?

Double beds in the sky have often been talked about, and Singapore Airlines may just have taken the thrill out of joining the esteemed (and possibly sought after) Mile High Club.

There are countless instances the world over where carnal desires under that airline blanket lead to wherever one’s imagination takes you. Naturally, the thought of “doing it” in the airplane lavatory hardly conjours up the most romantic of places on an airplane to engage in this sort of activity.

Image courtesy of Mile High Club

Perhaps thats why Mr. Seng is smiling - he’s taken the excitement of that mid-air rendezvous and placed it in the confines of the elite Suites.

Given that Airbus states the A380 has 50% more floor space than the 747, for those who won’t be flying in those beds, there’s bound to be a place aboard the airplane which leads to that coveted achievement in the sky…

8 comments October 22nd, 2007