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Looks like the Boom jet will be business-class only, with single seats on each side, so it probably won't be a big deal if you are willing to pay up. https://b
by byw 9y ago
Looks like the Boom jet will be business-class only, with single seats on each side, so it probably won't be a big deal if you are willing to pay up.
https://boomsupersonic.com/airliner https://boomsupersonic.com/airliner
- username223 9y agoYep -- $2500 one-way from New York to London (vs. $420 for a normal flight), to save a bit over 3 hours. As Maciej Ceglowski wrote ( http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm ), current subsonic planes are good enough.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoSo about the same as business class?
- rdl 9y agoAt $2500 this will own the business class market, assuming 1x1 seating, even if they were just economy seats with business class service. At minimum a corp traveler is going to cost $1-2k/day to put in London or NYC if based in the other city (and probably more, in forgone productivity), so this might shave one or two days off a short trip.
- dx034 9y agoProbably closer to twice as much. Business class flights for returns within a few days are usually around $4000-6000. This will again allow same-day returns and would probably go for closer to $8k-$10k return. Capacity will be extremely limited, there are >1000 business class seats/day just out of Heathrow to JFK.