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What's interesting to me about this is that no major airline wants to go supersonic, for two reasons. First, because of the cost of development, and, second, be
by theothermkn 8y ago
What's interesting to me about this is that no major airline wants to go supersonic, for two reasons. First, because of the cost of development, and, second, because you lose a significant fraction of business class revenue to your supersonic fleet, raising the costs of tickets for leisure travelers and affecting routing. However, you don't want to be subsonic if another carrier is supersonic, because then they get your business class revenue.
It'll be interesting to see what happens if they make it.
- reaperducer 8y agoWhat's interesting to me about this is that no major airline wants to go supersonic JAL is already a Boom investor.
- tim333 8y agoBranson/Virgin wanted to but BA refused to sell the concordes they were scrapping: >Virgin described BA's refusal to sell the planes instead of retiring them for good as "an act of industrial vandalism",...https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2855774/Virgin-bitter-as-Concorde-dream-fades.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2855774/Virgin-bitter-as... Airlines don't go supersonic because there are no aircraft.