'Very Important' Doesn't Quite Do It

 

Can this report be true? From Shweta Jain at IAG, A380 VIP Headed For Gulf:

January 29, 2007 Airbus's first A380 VIP aircraft is expected to land in the Middle East shortly, according to a senior Airbus official.

“We are talking to two potential buyers, one of which is in the Middle East, for the VIP aircraft in the A380 category. That would be the first A380 VIP aircraft in the world. It will be a private aircraft but we cannot share any more details,” Richard Gaona, Airbus vice president for Executive and Private Aviation, told Emirates Today....

Unfreakin'-believably Important Person is more like it if you're planning an A380 for that role, but I guess the acronym wouldn't roll off the tongue.

The video is unconnected to the story--it's Rolls-Royce footage of the aircraft taxiing at Heathrow (those are Rolls Trent 900's hanging on the wings). I just can't believe how large that thing is. When the shot backs up to show trucks on the apron, they look like Tonka Toys.