Fractional Ownership News
Celebrity credit crunch
Nope, Celebrity Credit Crunch is not the latest tasty cereal to hit breakfast tables across the world, but rather the title of a story featuring the plight of one P Diddy.
Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs or whatever he wishes to call himself has asked the oil producing nations to give him ‘free oil’ to fuel his private jet.
Diddy has posted a YouTube Video which we could link to but considering the 'F word' (and we're not talking Fractional!) is used fairly liberally I will leave it to you to seek it out if you so wish (P. Diddy Blog #12 might be handy if you do wish to view it- but don't say we didn't warn you!!). In this video blog he talks about how high gas prices have impacted his private jet costs. Interviewed as he checked his luggage in with a commercial operator at the airport he appeals “Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters and all countries with oil, please send me oil for my private jet.”
Diddy complains about two round-trips to LA a month now costing him $250,000….poor man.
Diddy will now have to suffer slow-track security, baggage claim, luggage restrictions, sitting next to the hoi polloi (admittedly in first class- although he does claim he's in coach but those seats look just a little too comfy) and being a passenger with less privacy than he’s accustomed…….he’s definitely a bit surprised there are other passengers on board in the clip!
Question is why Diddy’s not gone for the next best (and better value) option and purchased a fractional ownership in a company like Flexjet or NetJets to still fly a Boeing business jet, Cessna or Gulfstream. Better still, if he doesn’t want his $$$’s tied up a fractional jetcard would do the trick.
Although, I’m not sure Diddy fits the Netjets image if the squeaky clean image of Roger Federer fronting their latest offline fractional jet ad campaign is anything to go by!
Diddy’s certainly seems to be hitting hard times in his world at the moment and only a couple of months back tried selling sponsorship opportunities based around his infamous annual party aboard his luxury yacht…..Editors note: Diddy, save yourself some more cash and buy yourself an interest in a fractional yacht. Another option would be to become pals with the Middle Eastern sheikh who flew his Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640 on a round trip from Qatar to London and back for an ‘oil change’ recently…….now where’s that supercar club membership…?
02/09/08
