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So, Spending $1,000+ On Used Airplane Bar Carts is a Thing

No one likes airplane food, and flight attendants aren’t exactly mixologists, so it’s weird that there’s a fetish for the service carts used to bring you those sky-high victuals. But when Australia’s Qantas Airways recently decommissioned their fleet of 747s, and put 1,000 747 bar carts up for sale, all of them sold out within minutes.

Granted, the Qantas carts were stocked with mini-bottles of booze and Commonwealth snacks like Tim Tams, but the asking price of AUD $1,474 (USD $1,035) sounded kind of steep to me. Then I looked it up, and that seems close to the going rate. On Etsy this TWA-branded bar cart is going for USD $1,213…

…this TransAero model runs $995…

…and these half-size Primera Air carts are going for $788.

Over on eBay, the prices are all over the map. About the cheapest I could find is this battered Alitalia model for $355–but the shipping charges are an additional $175.

I’m not sure why there’s such demand for a storage object with such a narrow range of applications. But with airlines going the way they are now, I’m guessing there will soon be a lot more of these on the market. If you wanna cash in on the trend, start looking to buy them from the source.