China Test Hypersonic Passenger Plane; Promises London to New York in Under Two Hours

A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.

  • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    Would certainly want to though. I hate sitting on planes and also get very little time off work, so wasting 12h of a trip for plane time is a lot to me. First class tickets are often 3x regular price and all you get is a bigger seat and slightly better food. I’d find way more value in a shorter trip than a first class ticket. Not saying I could afford it, but if it cost around 3x as much it seems feasible that it would sell at that level at least.

    • Echo DotEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      Well Concord was mostly for business people so they weren’t buying their own tickets. Which was ultimately their downfall because a company would just decide to spend less money and make their employees sit on a plane for longer, it wasn’t really a personal choice the passenger was making.

    • @Frozengyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      It was more than that. I’m 1996 round trip tickets were 7500, about 12000 in today’s dollars. I can get a round trip ticket under 400 bucks today for NYC to LHR. So it wasn’t 3x, but 30x the price.