There’s a company hoping to come out wiht a successor, though I wouldn’t hold my breath for it to work out. Still very early in development.
The Concorde was another cool thing that we really don’t deserve to have today, and it had far too many drawbacks for the money. It was super cool, but faggy east coasters ended up nerfing it with regulations since they whined about hearing sonic booms over the atlantic. That gimped the routing a bit, adding time since they had to exit supersonic earlier, IIRC.
The real death knell though, was that you just didn’t get much for your money. You paid something wild, like $20,000 per ticket in today’s garbage money only to have a tiny, cramped seat without the spaciousness of first class arrangements from tickets a fraction of the price.
Add in the fact that people treat flight like a write off, and the fact that they save 7 hours just isn’t enough to outweigh the downsides. Your boss would tell you to take the full day to fly out and buy you a biz ticket instead, and the people rich enough to buy concorde tix would rather charter their own private transport and enjoy the freedom and space outside a cramped cattle car.
At least, that’s how I remember it
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