Comments on: United Airlines buys 15 Boom Supersonic airplanes

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 10:54:54 +0000

“Mach 2.0 to 2.2 seems to me to be a sweet spot. Sydney – L.A. or return works well considering the time zones if you depart at the right times. Need to do it non stop though.”

Current low fare is circa $3400, second is $4300, third $4800 all for 15 hour non-stop flights with one carry on and one checked bag, one week round trip. ($9700 for 14 hour flight). The question is, at those prices, how big of a market are we talking about and what premium it is willing to pay to cut that to about 7 or so so hours (1 each subsonic departing and arriving, 5 at Mach 2)?

We’re not talking about your average tourist, so how much business traffic is there (a woman I once knew was sent by her law firm on two day round trips to London by Concorde – hey, the customer is paying for it, so put it in the billings)(? Can you make a profit on the “carriage trade”?

By: Mike Borgelt

Mike Borgelt — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:50:56 +0000

“though little progress has appeared to take place during most of the last five years.”
They have rolled out the subscale XB-1 vehicle.
Mach 2.0 to 2.2 seems to me to be a sweet spot. Sydney – L.A. or return works well considering the time zones if you depart at the right times. Need to do it non stop though.

By: bkivey

bkivey — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 04:51:54 +0000

Considering sonic footprint was one of the factors in the demise of the SST, not sure ‘Boom’ is a positive PR move.

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-2707-cancelled/#:~:text=The%20Boeing%202707%20Super%20Sonic%20Transport%20%28SST%29%20was,before%20two%20prototypes%20of%20the%20plane%20were%20completed.

Sorry, that’s a long URL.

If the company can build an SST with current environmentally-friendly tech, sign me up!

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 04:10:23 +0000

Great news! Something to look at besides boring, also-ran twin-jets!