{"id":418819,"date":"2021-06-05T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418819"},"modified":"2021-06-05T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:58:20","slug":"this-airline-will-launch-supersonic-jet-san-francisco-to-tokyo-in-just-6-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/this-airline-will-launch-supersonic-jet-san-francisco-to-tokyo-in-just-6-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"This airline will launch Supersonic Jet: San Francisco to Tokyo in just 6 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines announced plans Thursday to buy 15 planes from airline startup Boom Supersonic in a move that could revive the high-speed form of air travel after the Concorde was wound down in 2003. <\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, United would purchase Boom&#8217;s &#8220;Overture&#8221; aircraft once the planes meet &#8220;United&#8217;s demanding safety, operating and sustainability requirements&#8221; with an aim to start passenger travel in 2029, the companies said in a joint press release. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement represents a potential comeback to a once heavily-touted method of travel, although some analysts expressed scepticism, particularly over the relatively speedy timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement covers 15 planes and includes an option for United to obtain another 35 aircraft. The companies did not disclose financial terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines announced plans Thursday to buy 15 planes from airline startup Boom Supersonic in a move that could revive the high-speed form of air travel after the Concorde was wound down in 2003. Under the deal, United would purchase Boom&#8217;s &#8220;Overture&#8221; aircraft once the planes meet &#8220;United&#8217;s demanding safety, operating and sustainability requirements&#8221; with an aim to start passenger travel in 2029, the companies said in a joint press release. The announcement represents a potential comeback to a once heavily-touted method of travel, although some analysts expressed scepticism, particularly over the relatively speedy timeframe. The agreement covers 15 planes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}