[standardUser]

Sounds like a 1970's mindset that is wildly underestimating how much air travel has changed and how many more hundreds of millions of people can now afford semi-frequent air travel, with hundreds millions more in the pipeline.

[Fomite]

Most of whom have demonstrated, time and time again, that price is the primary factor by which they decide who to fly with.

[standardUser]

Business travel, which continues to explode between the West and Asia, is far less price sensitive and far more time sensitive. And of course the number of wealthy air travelers continues to increase rapidly as well.

Plus, it's just f*cking exhausting to fly 10-18 hours, so people may well be willing to spend more on those extra-long-haul flights just to spare their mind and body. I don't believe any commercial supersonic jets were even able to fly trans-Pacific in the past, and ties between those regions were a tiny fraction of what they are today anyway. Faster trans-Pacific transport simply seems inevitable.

[thombat]

Agreed - if it could stroll right across the Pacific it would be compelling. But unfortunately Boom needs to stretch its legs a further 25% to manage LAX - China, or about 10% for Tokyo. An A350 takes about 9 hours to fly as far as Boom's range, which is a longish but not utterly brutal flight.