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An update from Elon on the pricing[1]: > Fly to most places on Earth in under 30 mins and anywhere in under 60. Cost per seat should be about the same as full
by karterk 9y ago
An update from Elon on the pricing[1]:
> Fly to most places on Earth in under 30 mins and anywhere in under 60. Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that.
[1]: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/
- Diederich 9y agoI imagine you can gain a lot of efficiencies with this approach. Just guessing here: 1. You can't leave your seat. Very high seat density. 2. No restrooms. 3. No food or any other services. 4. Very few (if any) cabin staff. 5. Fully automated flight; perhaps no pilot. 6. More reliable flight schedule; only a small bit of earth's weather on either side of the flight matters. Personally, I'd put up with a lot if the whole flight was <40 minutes. On the other hand, the vomit. So much vomit. :(
- grondilu 9y ago> 5. Fully automated flight; perhaps no pilot. Almost certainly no pilot.
- Diederich 9y agoI agree; I can, however, imagine some kind of on-flight technician. Maybe.
- bluthru 9y agoTechnician / EMT
- Diederich 9y agoZero G but very short term EMT...a high tech hospital is always close by the landing point. Cool stuff.
- anotheryou 9y agoIs he going to space-walk within the 10min window? I doubt you need a technician (and if you do, he's probably too late).
- dogma1138 9y agoFuel might also be actually cheaper, CH4 costs about 4$ per 1000 cubic feet, LOX is practically free.
- Diederich 9y agoWow, that's (the price of methane) amazingly cheap.
- dogma1138 9y agoWhat more amazing is that 1000 ft^3 of methane is 12 tons, you need 1900 tons (in orbit) of propellant to get to mars based on the ITS design since it's about 5 trips of the ITS tanker to refuel the ITS that goes to mars (350-380 tons per refueling). Lets put E2E propellant requirements for the BFR/Booster and the ITS at 10 times that of the martian transfer that would put the CH4 costs of the trip to less than $6500.... At 100 times that it would be about $65,000. That will still be much cheaper than the most fuel efficient jets we have like the A380 and the 787-9 with the fuel costs of a 15 hour flight being in the range of 150-200,000$ depending on the aircraft.
- bluthru 9y ago>Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that. The ticket is worth much more than economy!