[RightWhale]

Hard to say. They have to cover development costs as well as flight costs. Oh, and insurance if they can get any.

[OCC]

"If it was ready next week, I'd be there," Alan Watts, who has traded in two million Virgin Atlantic frequent flyer miles for a ride on SpaceShipTwo, told SPACE.com. "I'm really looking forward to it."

Passengers will have several minutes of weightlessness during the spaceflight, and then have about 40 seconds to return to their seats, Whitehorn said, adding that the floor of SpaceShipTwo is also designed to be used during landing of spaceflyers fail to reach their spots in time.

http://www.space.com/news/060828_spaceshiptwo_next.html