Meet the First Passenger to Fly Etihad’s Three-Room Residence Suite
Photo Credit: Miami entrepreneur and aviation enthusiast, Gino Bertuccio. Etihad Airways
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It takes a elevated breed of aviation geek to roll like this.
If you’ve wondered just what a person would have to do to pay the kind of money it takes to fly in the Etihad new multi-room The Residence suite, the answer is: sell Italian toothpaste. 'Pasta del Capitano,' to be exact, which is appropriate when you think about it.
But the first person to fly in The Residence really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Etihad Airways revealed that aviation enthusiast and Miami businessman, Gino Bertuccio, holds the golden ticket--which the airline dubs as “the most exclusive ticket in aviation history”--for the December 27 Abu Dhabi to London first flight of Etih