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can anyone think of scenarios where somebody has to be somewhere in an hour? what about making one of those the new airforce one?

lmm 9y ago
Histories of financial crises include a fair bit of catching Concorde between London and New York. That's the only case I can think of that's urgent and serious enough to justify face-to-face talks where it's safe enough to have an unplanned international visit.
- jlebrech 9y ago
  i'm thinking this is the new concorde (not in failure) Urgent signing and cancelling of business deals in person, or delivery of high tech expertise or knowledgable staff.
grondilu 9y ago
> can anyone think of scenarios where somebody has to be somewhere in an hour? Have you ever taken any long-haul flight? I guess some people don't mind, but I find it excruciating. Few people have to be somewhere in an hour. But lots of people would love to.
InclinedPlane 9y ago
It's not even about the latency issue, in most cases. Today the biggest problem with, specifically, trans-pacific flights is that you burn an entire day in travel, both ways. That means if you want to take a weekend to go somewhere, you can't, because 2 days minus 2 days is zero days, you have no time to actually spend doing anything. And that's aside from the recovery time of that much air travel. Short duration trips are then only reasonable if you can cram in some very high priority activity, which is very limiting. For shorter trip times it becomes feasible to squeeze in short trips on a more regular basis. I had a coworker who lived in the Seattle area and flew down to LA every weekend to visit his wife for several months. That's only feasible if you can cram travel into Friday/Sunday evenings. That sort of thing will become possible with a service like BFREE. Most importantly, you don't burn entire days in travel, you simply add travel as a component into those days. These flights are expected to be in the $10k range, so basically anyone who makes more than about $4m a year will have a straight up logical cost/benefit reason to use BFREE for long distance flights instead of air travel, because it means they get the majority of that whole day back, instead of burning it flying.
monk_e_boy 9y ago
Your argument makes no sense. Would you like to be there in an hour or in 15 hours? Um, let me think about that for, no, wait. I'll take the hour, please.
- jlebrech 9y ago
  price
gravypod 9y ago
Industrial (Oil/Gas/Materials) repairmen. You're talking a few 100,000 for every hour they're not pushing product. These places are located at the resource, not where employees are so you're likely going to need to fly someone super specialized in the maintenance of this one item half way across the globe.
- jlebrech 9y ago
  like sending specialists to a nuclear power plant after a disaster?

lmm 9y ago

Histories of financial crises include a fair bit of catching Concorde between London and New York. That's the only case I can think of that's urgent and serious enough to justify face-to-face talks where it's safe enough to have an unplanned international visit.

jlebrech 9y ago
i'm thinking this is the new concorde (not in failure) Urgent signing and cancelling of business deals in person, or delivery of high tech expertise or knowledgable staff.

grondilu 9y ago

> can anyone think of scenarios where somebody has to be somewhere in an hour? Have you ever taken any long-haul flight? I guess some people don't mind, but I find it excruciating. Few people have to be somewhere in an hour. But lots of people would love to.

InclinedPlane 9y ago

It's not even about the latency issue, in most cases. Today the biggest problem with, specifically, trans-pacific flights is that you burn an entire day in travel, both ways. That means if you want to take a weekend to go somewhere, you can't, because 2 days minus 2 days is zero days, you have no time to actually spend doing anything. And that's aside from the recovery time of that much air travel. Short duration trips are then only reasonable if you can cram in some very high priority activity, which is very limiting. For shorter trip times it becomes feasible to squeeze in short trips on a more regular basis. I had a coworker who lived in the Seattle area and flew down to LA every weekend to visit his wife for several months. That's only feasible if you can cram travel into Friday/Sunday evenings. That sort of thing will become possible with a service like BFREE. Most importantly, you don't burn entire days in travel, you simply add travel as a component into those days. These flights are expected to be in the $10k range, so basically anyone who makes more than about $4m a year will have a straight up logical cost/benefit reason to use BFREE for long distance flights instead of air travel, because it means they get the majority of that whole day back, instead of burning it flying.

monk_e_boy 9y ago

Your argument makes no sense. Would you like to be there in an hour or in 15 hours? Um, let me think about that for, no, wait. I'll take the hour, please.

jlebrech 9y ago
price

gravypod 9y ago

Industrial (Oil/Gas/Materials) repairmen. You're talking a few 100,000 for every hour they're not pushing product. These places are located at the resource, not where employees are so you're likely going to need to fly someone super specialized in the maintenance of this one item half way across the globe.

jlebrech 9y ago
like sending specialists to a nuclear power plant after a disaster?