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Re:Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Air... by benced on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:33PM (#39795086)
The existence of business class flights proves this wrong. You are probably right the relative demand for face-to-face has gone down since Concorde but the world has also gotten bigger and richer since. I suspect absolute demand is higher, particularly if they can deliver their promise of business-class prices (versus Concorde's, inflation-adjusted $20k).
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Re:Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Air... by filleduchaos on Friday March 22, 2024 @06:09PM (#39795389)
> The existence of business class flights proves this wrong

I don't see how it does. Wanting a more comfortable experience than being crammed into a narrow seat for hours when travel/physical presence is actually necessary doesn't somehow translate into necessary travel being underserved.

(Specifying necessary travel because that's the GP's point - just because there are people who want to take 10 minute hops between neighbouring cities or to fly out for meetings that could have been conducted perfectly well over a call doesn't mean that the world should cater to their whims.)

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