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Boom CEO Makes Business Case For Supersonic Travel (It’s A Stretch)
Boom is an aeronautics company that’s working on bringing back supersonic passenger air travel. The companys main product is the Boom Overture, which is essentially intended to be the modern day Concorde.
Boom is an aeronautics company that’s working on bringing back supersonic passenger air travel. The company’s main product is the Boom Overture, which is essentially intended to be the modern day Concorde.
This is an incredibly ambitious project with a lot of smart people behind it. I have no doubt that bringing back supersonic passenger air travel is possible in terms of the technology. What I’m skeptical about is the timeline, and also the economic viability:
- Boom hopes for the Overture to enter the service before the end of the decade; just as a reminder, Boeing announced the 777X concept in 2013, and the plane isn’t yet certified, and it’s only an evolution of an existing aircraft
- Assuming Boom can get the many billions of dollars of funding that it needs, the company will need to sell a lot of planes in order to actually make money on this project, and will need to price the plane low enough so that it’s attractive to airlines
With that in mind, Boom’s CEO has provided an explanation of the business case for the Overture, and it’s… quite something.
Boom CEO sees demand for 1,000+ Overture aircraft
Boom CEO Blake Scholl published a series of posts on Twitter/X, explaining why he thinks that supersonic flight will work at scale for the Boom Overture, when it didn’t work for the Concorde. He points out how only 14 Concordes were ever planned, while he thinks there will be 1,000+ Overtures.
