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by jandrese 501 days ago
New York to Sydney for $100 in 4 hours? My bullshit alarm is blaring. Unless they have a secret teleporter project they aren't telling people about. If you're burning dinosaurs to do that it is not happening, not unless oil becomes magically free and even then I think you would struggle to make ends meet.
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JumpCrisscross 501 days ago
> New York to Sydney for $100 in 4 hours? My bullshit alarm is blaring

LA to Sydney is $10k on a good day for lie flat. You could probably charge $15 even 20k a seat and (a) turn a profit (b) filling the plane.

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senordevnyc 501 days ago
That’s overstating it. I literally did this flight in Polaris yesterday (from NYC), and I’d say tickets from LA are more like $5-7k. There are lots of options from LA to Sydney next week in that range.
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SahAssar 501 days ago
Did you miss the part you quoted that said "$100 in 4 hours"? It does not say $100k.
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JumpCrisscross 501 days ago
> It does not say $100k

>> You could probably charge $15 even 20k a seat

Neither do I.

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