Fundamentally, about half as efficient. You can compensate by cramming in seats closer or trying exotic designs. And there's some efficiency buy-back by operat

Fundamentally, about half as efficient. You can compensate by cramming in seats closer or trying exotic designs. And there's some efficiency buy-back by operating at higher altitudes where the engine can expand to lower pressures (and thus increase the pressure ratio), but overall, roughly half as efficient is a decent guesstimate. Then again, conventional aircraft are about double the efficiency they used to be, so supersonic aircraft today could conceivably be approximately the same efficiency as transonic aircraft of yesteryear. I think exotic designs could enable decent range low supersonic electric flight (i.e. Mach 1.5 or something). Going to need good batteries, though, and extremely high aspect ratio wings.