![]() You can do the same thing for Philly and JFK if you’d like. Maybe you can push into Paris, but beyond that, I’m not sure which big markets would support service like this.Ĭharlotte has similar opportunities and isn’t too far from the coast, but is Charlotte really big enough to support this kind of flying? It doesn’t have a huge amount of local traffic, but this also isn’t a huge airplane. MIA 3,825nm Range Map generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Take a look at this map from Great Circle Mapper showing 3,825nm from LAX. I hope American has better ideas than that.įrom LA, that really is the only option. And they won’t be willing to pay extra for that. Does anyone really need that kind of gain? No, they don’t. And to that I say… who cares? That means an 8am departure would get to Honolulu at 8am instead of 10:30am (at least when LA is on daylight saving time). American did tout in its press release that it could reduce the flight time from LA to Honolulu to 3 hours. ![]() Over the Pacific, well, that’s also not really going to work. It has to go too slow for too long to get to the coastline before it can turn on the jets. The ability to suppress the sonic boom on airplanes traveling faster than the speed of sound is not a part of this plan, so for American’s biggest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth, this airplane is likely a non-starter. (I should put “actual” in quotes since again, there is no engine yet.) Maybe it’s more flying eastbound, but with those winter westbound winds, this seems like a safer bet. So, let’s give it a 10 percent haircut and call it 3,825nm as the actual range. Manufacturers always overstate range to a level beyond what airlines will actually operate. What I want to know is where those airplanes will fly.īoom says that the airplane has a range of 4,250nm. That is wildly optimistic consdering that the engine doesn’t exist to power this airplane today and Boom hasn’t certified an airplane before.īut let’s not worry about any of those details, and let’s pretend that this airplane is flying people in less than a decade. The hope is to roll the airplane out in 2025 and have it carrying passengers by 2029. The configuration has changed over the years, but that’s the current plan. The Boom Overture is, in theory, going to carry 65 to 80 passengers at speeds of up to Mach 1.7. That is a lot of supersonic airplane right there, so it made me wonder… what the heck would American do with all those airplanes? ![]() On top of that, it has another 40 on option. Last week American announced it had placed an order for 20 of the Boom Overture supersonic airplanes.
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