Condit's Office in the Sky BBJ Is Also a Home From Home

Phil Condit uses Boeing's Connexion communications system on his BBJ.

Boeing's demonstrator BBJ, seen here at EBACE, is used extensively by Boeing chairman and CEO Phil Condit as his office in the sky. It's a quantum leap from one of the company's four much smaller Bombardier Challengers, which do not have the bed, shower and high speed communications system of the BBJ.

"The BBJ saves him a lot of time over the Challenger because he can sleep, shower and answer his e-mail in it instead of going to a downtown hotel," said BBJ president Borge Boeskov. What was a nine day globe-trotting trip can now be shortened to 4-1/2 days, he said, as Condit lives on the airplane instead of making time-consuming overnight stopovers at five star hotels.

The BBJ's bedroom in the sky can whisk Condit to the next destination in the time he would otherwise spend sleeping downtown, ensuring he arrives rested and raring to go, Boeskov said.

By John Morris