Date: 04 Apr 2001 16:41:16
From: johnmcgrew@aol.com (JohnMcGrew)
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In article <airliners.2001.83@ditka.Chicago.COM>, damon@halcyon.com (Damon
Hill) writes:
>Will it fly? Will the airlines buy? I hope so! Commercial
>aircraft design has been SO boring for the past couple of
>decades.
That's a tough call. The real quesion will be if the economics make it
worthwhile.
Perhaps it will find a niche on international routes of flight times more than
7 or 8 hours. It's pretty much a foregone conclusion that the Concorde isn't
going to be with us much longer.
However, I doubt that airlines will be interested in using it domestically.
Considering that airport congestion now consumes at least 20 minutes of every
flight, a mere 10% increase in speed in the air isn't going to get pax anywhere
that much faster.
John
