United Airlines to Buy 15 Ultrafast Airplanes from Start-Up Boom Supersonic: Its been 18 years since the Concorde supersonic airliner flights were discontinued, but United Airlines is placing a multibillion dollar bet on the return of luxury and business travel by purchasing 15 planes from Denver-based “Boom Supersonic,” jets which the company claims could cut flying time between New York and London to only three-and-a-half hours.
Wow, now that’s an awesome achievement! From this point on, we’ll now be able to spread COVID-19 and other contagions around the globe - in just a little over 3 hours. That said, I think we can all agree it’s about time someone finally came up with another viable transportation option for the one percenters. After all, billionaires have been in desperate need of a way to make quickie jaunts over to Paris and back for their lunch dates.
Why, just think about what this means for the future of air travel. With the help of forward-thinking companies such as United Airlines and Boom Supersonic, you could actually have breakfast in New York, lunch in Paris, then take a quick meeting in London, while all your baggage ends up luxuriating in the golden sunshine, somewhere down around Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
That said, I guess we can only hope these folks didn’t come up with the name “Boom,” because their fuselages kept cracking during testing. I mean, am I the only one here who feels a wee-bit uncomfortable about an “aircraft manufacturer” deciding to call itself “Boom?” One thing’s for sure, if they ever decide to put Firestone tires on the damn planes, I’ll be taking the train.
Anyway, at a recent press conference, a Boom spokesperson told reporters its the company’s plan to try and become as green as it possibly can, pointing out that they’re looking into a fuel which would partially come from a recycled food byproduct. Company officials say that innovation should leave only the faint smell of french fries or fried onion rings in the air after takeoff.
Meanwhile, critics say buying a supersonic plane from a company that’s never built an aircraft before is pure lunacy. Not to mention that during the pandemic, we got used to having all of our meetings on Zoom. The fact is, Zoom could mean the doom of Boom, and that’s the elephant in the room. Oh well, I guess for those folks over at United, it’s gonna be “Boom or Bust.”
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