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by missedthecue 1715 days ago
G700 has long legs. It can fly from New York to Hong Kong without a stop. Plus, it doesn't have to reduce it's speed when flying over land.

A Boom aircraft would presumably only be able to use it's selling point on routes over open water. That completely shuts out almost all of the Asia market - it's range isn't great enough to make it from Asia to the US, and most other routes Asians fly mainly cross land.

The only buyers would be American east coast billionaires that go to Europe often and European billionaires that come to the US often. Are there enough of these?

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Unsure how feasible it is, but Boom does expect to have cross pacific flights as well as flights over land due to various improvements to the tech.