Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Google duo takes to the air

Opinion
Nov 8, 20051 min

How are Google overlords Sergey Brin and Larry Page like Wonder Woman?

They all own a jet.

We don’t think Air Google will be invisible, though. No word on whether the duo also is in possession of a lasso of truth. Perhaps.

The purchase of a Boeing 767 is somewhat surprising given the gazillionaires traditional shunning of such ostentatious trappings of unimaginable wealth. Yet Page tells the Wall Street Journal they took a “engineering approach” to the buy:

“We looked at this and we just did the economics and we said, ‘you know, it makes a lot of sense,’ ” he noted.

Once tricked out, the plane “will have a sitting area, two staterooms with adjoining lavatories and a shower. Farther aft will be a large sitting-and-dining area. At the rear will be 12 to 16 first-class seats for guests or employees and a large galley.”

And, hee, it’s larger than Paul Allen’s Boeing 757.

Via Obscure Store