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Oh this is absolutely another problem for supersonic time savings. Supersonic flight over the continents is problematic, but not everyone lives on a coast. So
by runako 4y ago
Oh this is absolutely another problem for supersonic time savings.
Supersonic flight over the continents is problematic, but not everyone lives on a coast. So many customers will have to take slow planes to aggregation hubs, which can easily add hours to an itinerary. Edit: And the aggregation hubs may not all serve the same destinations. Could easily see SF residents having to fly commercial to NYC to catch a Boom to London, even though there might be a Boom that flies SF-Tokyo.
Once you add up the fixed time costs of getting to the airport, security, flying to a supersonic hub, the percentage of time that can potentially be shaved off the itinerary dwindles.
- bobthepanda 4y agoBoom unfortunately does not have the range to make it transpacific nonstop either. Which is kind of a shame because 10+ hour Asia-NA flights would be a great nut to crack in terms of halving travel times.
- ghaff 4y agoYeah, even with lie-flat seating pods, transpacific is just a long time to be sitting, however comfortably.
- kolinko 4y agoHow long is it? I flew business multiple times, Frankfurt-SF (~14h), and it's a breeze if you can lie down and sleep. Not even boring. Jet lag is way worse than the flight itself.
- bobthepanda 4y agoJFK - HKG is 17h30. Even SFO to HKG is 12h30, and those are two cities on the coast in a middle position. (I'd rather pick Shanghai as a comparison but there are no direct flights at this time due to zero COVID so the info is hard to get.) The longest scheduled flight right now is probably SIN to JFK at 18h30m. Qantas wants to do a 20h JFK-SYD route.