4 ms·
Not that I disagree with you, but I'd argue the most viable route would be one the Concorde already served: New York to London over the North Atlantic.
by ctippett 2y ago
Not that I disagree with you, but I'd argue the most viable route would be one the Concorde already served: New York to London over the North Atlantic.
- dmix 2y agoMarket enviornments change though. There's probably a lot more people with disposable income in the higher end and plane travel has exploded since then. But gov controls and red tape on this sort of thing probably tripled, especially around environment/airport development+nimby politics/aircraft regulations, so it's probably 50/50 vs the 1970s-80s.
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoI eagerly awaiting saving 500,000 Amex points and having a chance to fly supersonic.
- onion2k 2y agoThat's less true now than it was in the 1980s.
- zarzavat 2y agoConcorde got a pass because it was British and even then it was controversial. Boom will still have to meet all noise pollution rules now and in the future. Noise rules are designed for normal passenger aircraft, they will not get any exceptions. I don't doubt that they can make something much quieter than Concorde but can they make it as quiet as subsonic aircraft?