Airbus A380 SuperJumbo bought as Private Jet

My jaw dropped when I read The Economist that a private buyer has placed an order at the Paris Air Show for an Airbus A380 super-jumbo. Airbus said the individual was "not from Europe or the US" and that the plane was for "personal use for him and his entourage". The cost is estimated at around $300m.

This follows on from Joseph Lau, the Hong Kong Real Estate tycoon, who became the seventh person to order a Boeing 787 VIP as a private jet.

Apart from the moral aspects of such outrageous flaunting of wealth, the unjustifiable squandering of the earth's limited resources mean that neither Boeing nor Airbus should even be selling large aircraft for this purpose. But as all taste and propriety seems to have disappeared in the stratosphere of the super-rich and the boardrooms of corporate behemoths, then a simpler approach needs to be taken.

My proposition is this, that non-commercial/private aircraft, over a certain (small) size, should be barred from landing at any public airport or airport whose flight path causes noise pollution over residential areas. And that should go double in the over-crowded skies in Europe and the US.