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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by Someone on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:25PM (#11329837)
"Pretty amazing that materials science has made this economic."

That, I think, still is an open question. Someone must think there is a decent chance it will be, but if this were a no-brainer, there would be multiple players in this market. Also, oil price fluctuations, the bane of any airline company, will hit those running these planes harder.

Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by usefulcat on Monday March 21, 2016 @03:42PM (#11331212)
I was curious about fuel costs and found that the fuel cost per seat per mile for Delta and Southwest was around $.04 per mile in 2Q 2014. At that rate, even if this new aircraft uses 4x as much fuel per person it would amount to around 20% of the ticket price.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/southwest-fuel-hedging-overvie...