The American airline United Airlines stated that it was going to buy ultra-best airplanes of the BOOM SUPERSONIC company, thus reviving the tradition of supersonic passenger flights, writes Reuters.
The company plans to receive 15 OVERTURE aircraft, and in the future it can purchase another 35. According to Bloomberg, one aircraft will cost $ 200 million, and the total amount of the transaction will reach three billion.
Overture is a supersonic aircraft that can make a transatlantic flight in about three and a half hours, which is half less than the duration of the usual flight. United intends to optimize aircraft so that they can work 100 percent on eco-friendly aircraft fuel from the very commissioning scheduled for 2029.
Tickets are planning to sell at a business class price, one airplane provides 65 to 88 seats. The United Airlines project, if success, will revive the tradition of supersonic passenger traffic. She was interrupted in 2003 after the decommissioning of the Briton-French Concorde.
Soviet supersonic Tu-144 aircraft was used in passenger traffic from 1975 to 1978. On the readiness to revive such flights in Russia in 2018, the head of “Aeroflot” Vitaly Savelyev said.