, with the option to purchase an additional 40 planes if all goes well. The deal is one of the strongest shows of support for Boom yet, surpassing the potential 50-jet commitment United Airlines made last year. One wrinkle: Boom hasn’t yet built a working passenger jet.
The company plans for a manufacturing facility at North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad International Airport. It expects to begin construction later this year, with production to follow in 2024 — though the plant’s first completed jet won’t fly until 2026. If Boom can deliver on its Overture promises, there are some pretty big benefits: flights between Newark, NYC and London in under four hours and San Francisco to Tokyo in approximately six hours.
yeah im sure their underpaid staff just love this news of carelessly throwing money around.
Great! Then AmericanAir can delay flights, cancel flights, oversell flights, deny boarding to paying customers, lose luggage, and underpay their employees - all at supersonic speeds!