Are you furnishing your home? Singapore Airlines sells its Business seats
We have talked many times about what happens to planes when they are retired. Most are dismantled: sold [...]
Singapore Airlines
We have talked many times about what happens to the planes when they go into retirement. Most are dismantled: sold the parts that are still good or recycled materials by specialized firms.
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Some airlines have been more imaginative than others, trying to give new life to their aircraft. Emirates for example, recently discontinued its first A380 of history and sold it in pieces by collection; Delta has dismantled an entire Boeing 747 and has sold in pieces on eBay.
Still British Airways turned one of its former 747 in a museum and in Turkey they have sank a plane to make a artificial reef As an attraction for underwater tourism.
Instead, today we are going to tell you about Singapore Airlines which decided to sell on the company's official store "Vintage" seats from its Business Class.
The seats are from a business class dating back to the 2006, are reclining and padded, have also been re-lined With new skin to give a fresh touch.
They are called Towkay and they are in the edition limited, you will also be able to customize your chairs with different colors of leather or side decorations, either for the materials used than for decorative motifs.
Of course weight is important, well 105 kg, we will have to be equipped to put it in the house and move it....
The inlays of the armchairs are not made of ordinary plastic, but strictly by hand and with materials valuable, as the mother of pearl and the bones of water buffalo (cruelty-free harvests from animals that died of natural causes and not on purpose).
The patterns are drawn freehand, material such as bones is cut and laid piece by piece to create the decoration choice. Subsequently, a finish of resin makes it homogeneous, smooth and glossy for a perfect and long-lasting result.
Another Vintage item also pops up, the armrest in fact hides a phone old-school used to call from the aircraft, in addition to the keys To recline the seat or call the flight attendants.
It takes about 4 to 5 months for the delivery home, especially if the order was customized. The cost is not exactly for all budgets, with prices starting at about 4,000 per chair and going up, depending on customizations.
Or for the company's frequent flyers, you can shell out 750,000 points to take home a beautiful Singapore Airlines-branded memory.
Be careful where we have to put the chair though, because for delivery to the floor, the courier requires 50€ for each flight of stairs.
A nice and original way to decorate home, as well as being a great solution for the reuse Of our beloved planes or at least their parts.
