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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by notahacker on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:31PM (#32489215)
The "as long as they could keep most seats filled" was a deal killer though.

There was enough demand for one return flight a day carrying a small proportion of the overall passengers on the immensely-popular with wealthy people JFK-LHR and JFK-CDG routes. That wasn't enough to utilise the 14 production aircraft properly, never mind enough demand for it to have been viable as an airframe programme ...

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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by Retric on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:39PM (#32489927)
They both also used it for private charters which was apparently quite a profitable business. Anyway, the exclusivity was presumably more profitable than simply maximizing occupancy.

That said, boom is building a significantly smaller aircraft which should again open up more possible routes.

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