Don’t be Nervous: Google Flies Refurb
Refurbished items often get a bad rap - why? Well, people consider them ’second class’ and only want to buy new and pay twice the price. Tonight the news caught my eye - and provided a perfect example of how frugal companies keep the budget balanced even when splurging a bit.
Google is operating a refurbished wide-body Boeing 767-200 out of Moffett Field a stones throw from their headquarters in California. Better yet, the field is owned and operated by NASA who is utilizing the extra space on the planes for instrumentation to collect data during flights for various studies.
This refurbished plane is owned and used by the Billionaire founders of Google and has a long history.
The Google founders’ jet has been the talk of Silicon Valley since 2005, when the pair purchased the plane, which in a normal configuration can hold 180 passengers. A year later, talk about the plane intensified after The Wall Street Journal wrote about a legal dispute between the owners and a contractor who was charged with refurbishing the plane. In the article, the contractor described requests for modifying the plane to include California king size beds for the founders. At one point, the founders asked whether hammocks could be hung from the ceiling. The contractor said that Schmidt had described the jet as “party plane.”
If refurb is the right choice for Google- shouldn’t it be a great choice for you?
Source: International Herald Tribune
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