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What’s with these new restaurants and hotels opening up in old airplanes? During a time when customer frustrations with air travel are at an all time high, people still seem willing to put down good money to sleep in a grounded aircraft or eat on a fake plane. Daring “air”trepreneurs are opening up dining and lodging outposts and customers are following.

In Amsterdam, a 5-star hotel opens next week in a 1960s Soviet aircraft parked at Teuge Aiport, complete with whirlpool, infrared sauna and three flat-screen TVs. One night stay at Hotel Honecker can cost $500, but that includes breakfast for two . Check it out at ABC-TV.com.

Around the world in Taipei, restaurant A380 is located in a commercial building but looks like the interior of an Airbus plane.  Some of the waitresses are even former flight attendants. If your table is in the first-class cabin you can push the flight attendant button to summon the waitress. Read about it in this month’s issue of Conde Nast Traveler.

Time to board!