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Title: A MARKET FOR THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Accession Number: 00470895
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The principal market to be served by supersonic or hypersonic aircraft is long-haul overwater flights between approximately 40 city pairs worldwide. Flying time by subsonic aircraft on these routes today ranges between 10 and 14 hours. There are an additional 400 city pairs with routes of medium length (many overland) where flying time by subsonic aircraft is between 6 and 10 hours. Many of these routes, especially the longer, are on the Pacific rim, where air travel is increasing by about 10 percent annually. The potential time saving by supersonic aircraft in this market would be substantial, running between 50 and 75 percent. Hypersonic flight would produce even more dramatic reductions in travel time. All indications point to a large potential market for a cost-competitive, environmentally acceptable aircraft operating at speeds between Mach 2.4 and Mach 5.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Circular No. 333, Outlook for Commercial Supersonic and Hypersonic Transport Aircraft. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Lightfoot, B HPagination: p. 6-12
Publication Date: 1988-7
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Aug 31 1988 12:00AM
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