Nothing could sound further from reality, but it is a fact that the new Jumbo Hostel is coming. And it came to one between many crazy swedes to take the decision to buy the property of a landed Jumbo 747 that used to belong to Transjet, a company that lost it's license to operate back in 2002.

During all those years this old Jumbo has been simply landed there, in the third runway of Arlanda airport, the main one in Stockholm, Sweden. The fact is that many times in my flights I wondered about this Jumbo being always there. I didn't really know why it was not being used, and it seems that somebody has taken initiative and is going to give new wings to the bird.

By the way, not wings to make it fly high, but to make it become a permanently landed youth Jumbo Hostel that will offer competitive prices in a privileged location very very close to the airport.

The idea for the Jumbo Hostel is to take the 500 seats away and convert it into an 80 bedroom youth hostel where the cabin will be used as the main suite. At same time, I guess that rooms on the second floor will be priced higher, or maybe he has a better and/or craziest idea to place in the upper floor. Whatever it is done with the Jumbo Hostel, it will be a complete revolution, as never an idea like this one has been developed. In any case, the creator feels very comfortable with it and in fact is planning to further expand and create a youth hostels chain called "Jumbo Hostels" in all main airports in the world.

We'll have to wait and see if this goes further, but what seems to be sure is that in my dear Stockholm soon we'll have a revolutionary place where to spend the nights at. And that's what I have always said. If an American does not have an idea... only a swede could!

The only thing I am really looking for is that competence arises and I hope that as soon as the first models of Airbus A380 become inactive, somebody is going to convert them into the biggest plane hostels in the world. Let's see how the Jumbo Hostel chain reacts to that. That's pure competence between airlines brought to the accommodation world, isn't it?