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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by panglott on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:48PM (#12789978)
Imagine the Pacific flights. How many flights LAX > Tokyo or Hong Kong were there in the 1970s relative to today?

Apparently the Concorde was only purchased/operated by Air France and British Airways, on transAtlantic routes.

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by ghaff on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:54PM (#12790017)
The range of the Concorde was only about 4500 miles. That's materially shorter than would have been needed for, say, San Francisco to Tokyo.
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