United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by Opt_Out_Fed_IRS on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:11AM (#27381631)

Doesn't management and C-suite executives lose the respect of technical people in the company when they do media appearences and sign off this sort of overtly-optimistic PR pieces?

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by shakezula on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:36AM (#27382929)

In my experience, it's usually the C suite who's pushing these type of overly-optimistic PR pieces.

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by cratermoon on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:43AM (#27383054)

Which means they find some senior technical person to actually be part of the announcement, to give it more credibility. They're reading off a C-suite script, yes, but they are putting their names to it.

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by shakezula on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:05PM (#27383397)

For sure, but it also means that they aren't getting to add their own part to the script either, which is probably a lengthy and detailed "yes, but..."

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by landemva on Thursday June 03, 2021 @04:31PM (#27386901)

United Airlines press release for woke jetsetters: carbon neutral, carbon capture, soybean oil fuel.

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