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Old Mar 22, 2016 | 8:04 am
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Originally Posted by mickeydfly13
Maybe not your company, but for many, time is money and it's a no brainier to get where you're going to as quickly as possible.
I would say some, not many, and I'd be surprised if it's enough to keep a regularly scheduled flight in business. The CEO of a F500 company, and maybe 2 levels down, would pay to get somewhere a few hours early. This time savings only accrues for 10+ hour flights. Rough math says that's <1000 passengers/day, all likely going to different places. Even if they converge on one hub, that's single-digit demand for the aircraft, nowhere near enough to spread the development costs.

Unless they someone engineer/build this thing at an order-of-magnitude cost lower than traditional aircraft, I don't see a business case for it.
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