American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
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American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
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Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#2Lots of airlines also preordered Concorde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Sales_efforts
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#3Overture is being designed to carry 65 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 over water — or twice the speed of today’s fastest commercial aircraft — with a range of 4,250 nautical miles. Optimized for speed, safety and sustainability, Overture is also being designed to fly more than 600 routes around the world in as little as half the time. Flying from Miami to London in just under five hours and Los Angeles to Honolulu in three hours are among the many possibilities.
Probably will be very expensive but it's exciting for future possibilities
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#4> American has paid a non-refundable deposit on the initial 20 aircraft.
Pretty glad I don't own American stock right now, because they're apparently led by madmen.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#5>American has paid a non-refundable deposit on the initial 20 aircraft.
I guess that's not nothing given how these sorts of contracts usually give the big name brand company lots of outs if the speculative company goes bust, but by bragging about it without specifying the amount, I'm guessing it's a low amount.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#6Curious how the combination of remote work, videoconferencing, and the really luxurious business class / first class on sub-mach aircraft will compare to this.
This is slower and smaller than concorde, so we'll see if the market really values speed over convenience / luxury. Boeing made the opposite decision 20 years ago when they cancelled the sonic cruiser.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#7Lots of airlines also preordered Concorde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Sales_efforts
> At the time of the first flight the options list contained 74 options from 16 airlines:[44]
14 commercial aircraft were delivered of 20 total.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#8>American has paid a non-refundable deposit on the initial 20 aircraft. I guess that's not nothing given how these sorts of contracts usually give the big name brand company lots of outs if the speculative company goes bust, but by bragging about it without specifying the amount, I'm guessing it's a low amount.
Companies love low cost R&D that doubles as low cost marketing!
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#9Not a lot to go on here. Boom projects first flight in 2026 for the Overture. They seem to be fairly close to first flight with their XB-1, but it has not flown yet. I congratulate them on getting funding, but all the hard parts are ahead.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#10> American has paid a non-refundable deposit on the initial 20 aircraft. Pretty glad I don't own American stock right now, because they're apparently led by madmen.
It's phrased in such a way to give the idea that they've made a significant commitment, but it's entirely possible it was something like a 1% down payment.