Item — HN Reader

Not when their ticket prices and passenger volume are similar to first class. Go to their site and scroll down until you see the picture of the seating and tell me that isn't first class.

https://boomsupersonic.com/overture

You don't actually think someone making under 6 figures is ever going to be flying on one of these things do you?

2 comments

To be entirely fair, that’s a single image, and, it’s a marketing website. Of course they’re going to show a luxurious seat. The truth is that the interior will probably look like Concorde: more spartan than luxury.

You miss my point: the optimizations on ground experience for domestic first class can save you 20-30% of the time because the actual domestic flight time isn’t that long. On a transoceanic flight, to generate similar time-savings, you have to make the plane faster.

Comparing domestic first class to transoceanic supersonic is misleading.