Another SST please

gcomeau wrote:

cthia wrote:The US version was going to hold more seats to assist in being profitable. I certainly see the concern regarding being able to fill the seats as often as a regular commercial flight to be practical from passenger to airline, but I believe that if you build it they will come.

They did build it. They didn't come. That was kind of the problem.

And I assure you if they could have charged more they would have. Sure if they increased the prices *some* people would have paid, but not enough to make up the revenue loss from all the people who would tell them to go screw themselves and taken a regular flight instead.

Not quite the it I had in mind.

Build a joint SST which eliminates the problem of sonic booms which negates flying over land. Someone has already mentioned certain companies were working on that - and had been for some time. Then, a greatly extended service route could be offered - bringing practicality full circle.

Build that and they will come. People can't come if the service is virtually impotent and if an airport near me cannot achieve an erection of a runway then the service is. It's the same with riding the train. People can't ride the train to a destination if that destination is not offered, or even the originating depot.

Then, just solve the emissions problem and fuel efficiency. It'll happen sooner or later. I'd just rather more sooner, than later.


http://www.wired.com/2010/07/aerospace- ... lent-boom/

gcomeau wrote:

cthia wrote:The US version was going to hold more seats to assist in being profitable. I certainly see the concern regarding being able to fill the seats as often as a regular commercial flight to be practical from passenger to airline, but I believe that if you build it they will come.

They did build it. They didn't come. That was kind of the problem.

And I assure you if they could have charged more they would have. Sure if they increased the prices *some* people would have paid, but not enough to make up the revenue loss from all the people who would tell them to go screw themselves and taken a regular flight instead.

Fun fact: in order to get Concorde profitable, British Airways polled its Customers about what they thought they were paying for tickets, then increased their actual prices to match that.
However, this only worked because Concorde customers were almost exclusively people who stopped bothering about such trivialities as prices and simply told their secretaries to get them on that plane.

Not another SST today. Technology is not yet up to the task for a pure capitalistic (sp) non socialist pure private venture. The Concorde did not work that great in spite of lots of tax money being used for a long time.

Teck is taking us in other directions. It might not be necessary to actually be there in person in the flesh when other media might work nearly as well? However ... time and teck does march forward. In future years?

Oh yeah. In the near future, (say about 100 years or so) we probably will have the ability to build smaller faster personal transport aircraft. Not today. Kinda related to cheap space travel. Not yet, but someday it will happen.