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I’m not sure that it would even be larger now than before.

Subsonic flight has become much more efficient, cheaper and when paying for higher class, more comfortable. This is one of the reasons often mentioned for the economic demise of the concorde. The audience willing to pay $6000 on a concorde ticket, could now spend $4000 on first class subsonic with a seat that fully reclines into a bed. They can fly a little longer at night but sleep the whole journey.

Wendover did a good economic analysis of the concorde: https://youtu.be/n1QEj09Pe6k

⬐ ghaff

The number of people who will pay--or can make their companies pay--$500+/hour for a handful of saved hours on a flight which mostly won't go into incremental productive work is miniscule. Most business travelers aren't international lawyers or consultants flying across the Atlantic for a quick get together. But pay a bit more to fly a bit more comfortably to be more rested/as a perk and maybe even save on a hotel room night? Quite a few people, even if not the typical traveler.

Here is the issue explained in 10-minute youtube format by Wendover Productions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QEj09Pe6k

Selected Twitter responses:

- Why Planes Don't Fly Faster, https://youtu.be/n1QEj09Pe6k

- Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement, https://youtu.be/doaQC-S8de8

- Richard Hamming: "Learning to Learn", https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30

- Rise and fall of Third Reich, https://t.co/dSiTukyeAD

- The men who built America, https://t.co/GagcgO6TwT

-History of the World, https://t.co/GpOC9f906P

This reminds me of a Wendover video I've seen. The author discovers that airplanes used to fly much faster in the 1960s than they do today. So our flight times have actually gone up! He then explains the reasons behind it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QEj09Pe6k

⬐ caio1982

There is also another Wendover one explaining the economics or airlines classes and it talks about specifically why supersonic flights went into oblivion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc

If anyone finds the operation of airlines a fascinating topic, you might like Wendover Productions: https://www.youtube.com/user/Wendoverproductions

How airlines price flights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hlr-E7KA0

The little plane war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1YMPk3XhCc

Why planes don't fly faster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QEj09Pe6k

The economics of Airline Class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc

How airlines schedule flights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGXahSnA_oA

I just recently found the channel. So much good stuff. (My unrelated favorite is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48Z3W35FI0 How the US government will survive doomsday.)

⬐ anitil

Wendover is truly fantastic. Also a very soothing voice, which I'm sure helps

⬐ qwerty123123123

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