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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by Justin_K on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:40AM (#32484292)
You are arguing with a straw man. Nobody said driving to the airport will change. The claim is for the price of business class, get there in half the time.
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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by chx on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:54AM (#32484521)
What I am saying is that you can only save so much on the flight time over such a short range when the overall trip has fixed time segments. If we were looking at shaving off seven hours of a 20-21 hour London-Sydney trip then yeah, that's massive even if the flight itself is merely 19 hours of that.
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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by jefftk on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:42PM (#32485309)
In other words, running into Amdahl's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

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