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> If Boom manages to ship an airliner at all, international airlines will have to buy it. That isn't obvious considering the concorde failed.
by aliceryhl 6y ago
> If Boom manages to ship an airliner at all, international airlines will have to buy it.
That isn't obvious considering the concorde failed.
- dragonwriter 6y agoWell, its obvious, though not in the sense the author intended: its not like there are airliner retail stores to which airliners are shipped in hopes that someone will walk-in and buy them. Airliners are shipped -- and built --- in response to firm orders; if no one buys them, nothing is shipped. But its quite possible that they could get something certified and theoretically sellable but not have something that the economics make any sense for airlines to actually purchase, much less such a clear case that international airlines are generally compelled to do so.