Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
by mikeyouse on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:20AM
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There are far more CEOs earning ~$500k/year than there are making private jet money. I've worked for a half dozen pretty successful SMEs and all of the C-Suite flew business class and I suspect they'd all take the option to cut a few hours off their trip if it was within 50% of the price of a standard business class ticket.
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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
by ghaff on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:02PM
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For that matter, you can get into fairly large public enterprises where the CEO is making well into the millions and they are not routinely flying private for a variety of reasons--but will routinely take premium commercial.
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
by bluGill on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:01PM
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Private is expensive. For fun I looked into it a few years ago. I never did figure out how much a share buy in was (6 figures at least), but once you have a buy in each flight is still $7000 for a domestic flight (up to 6 people same price) My entire family can fly just over 1000, though that is coach not first class. Even if you fly first class private planes are a large step up in price.