It seems the more the world speeds up, the greater the pushback to slow things down. Fast food helped spawn the slow food movement, and Twitter and its 140 characters caused someone to start woofertime.com which requires a minimum post of 1,400 characters. And now we have the Aircruise, a sort of diamond-shape airship kept aloft by hydrogen, powered by solar energy and built to go somewhere really slow. In other words, your trip from London to New York will take 37 hours at an altitude of less than 12,000 feet.

But getting to the destination is not the point. The Aircruise will be about style and luxury, like a hotel in the sky. It’s also an antidote to the frenetic pace for the modern traveler, rushing off to airports, cramming uncomfortably into a crowded plane then speeding off to your final destination (to more crowded hotels) once you land. Designed with a large internal space for a small number of passengers, the Aircruise will have a dramatic and open common space, four duplex apartments, five smaller apartments, a penthouse and a bar/lounge.

Developed by British company Seymourpowell, helping produce the airship will be Samsung Construction and Trading. It’s expected to come on line by 2015. And while there’s word yet on meeting space, the Aircruise seems ideal for a buyout, especially for the executive retreat. After all, some of the best ideas are floating around in front of us.