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> but would be far too slow to compete with airliners as passenger aircraft It doesn't have to compete just on speed. What about price?

• mikepurvis 17y ago
  Where would the savings come from? You could pack a bunch more people into it, but then it would take more gate time and space to load them all, and the on-board pilots and staff are there for twice as a long, too. My expectation that it would be less an ultra-budget option, and more of a luxury thing—like, it takes twice as long to get there, but it's a smoother ride, you get a little cabin, and there's a hot tub and restaurant and stuff.