Originally Posted by
chornedsnorkack
But plenty of airlines do offer premium, First or Business Class on short-haul. Where would you rather sit for 3 and a half hours: 4 abreast in a Concorde, or 3 abreast on an Air Canada CRJ in Executive Class?
But Concorde was the equivalent of a long-haul flight. You're not making a fair comparison. Three or four hours on a CRJ from YVR to SLC is not even remotely comparable to three hours twenty minutes on Concorde from LHR to JFK.
That's also why people aren't making a fair comparison when they compare a Concorde seat to VS's Upper Class, or BA's Club World or FIRST. There's no need for those fancy fold-flat beds on Concorde when it's such a short (time-wise) flight. As I have said, I think people who have not flown on Concorde tend not to appreciate how big a deal the SUPERSONIC part of it is. Even saying "Mach 2" doesn't help. If you show them a machmeter photo where the ground speed display reads over 1,000 mph, that seems to help a bit more.
EDIT: BTW, chorned, I am sure you have seen my same username on the SST forum often enough. I'm the same person. Doesn't that suggest to you what my answer to your query would be??!!!!!