Supersonic revival: Concorde returns by 2026 to fly from New York to London in 2 hours...The new Concorde is expected to fly at 60,000 feet.

Interesting Engineering ^ | June 27, 2025 | Mrigakshi Dixit

[SmokingJoe]

You can get return ticket London/New York today for less than $1000.
Look it up.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Flying from the East Coast to the West Coast, the New Concorde can divert over Canada or Mexico and let the sonic booms fall there.

(tip of the hat to New Concord, Ohio! No airplane will ever replace you!)

[9YearLurker]

Doesn’t take a majority Muslim population for influence.

[1Old Pro]

Interestingly, it could slash the London to New York flight time to just 2 hours, down from the current 6 hours and 12 minutes.

Now that's progress. I don't get why the plane sonic boom over an ocean even matters?

[Red Badger]

The new plane is the old plane just refurbished.............

[1Old Pro]

2023 one way ticket from London to NY was $2800

I won't be booking a flight at that cost. I don't drive a Bentley either.

[Bob434]

I did, only saw prices from years ago, but I didn’t look over the results long. Under $1000 is reasonable for rich folks or vacation folks who budget for it. Ida thunk the price was a lot more.

[BobL]

“Since 1973, this ban has ensured that American skies remained free of sonic booms.”

If the writer of this story didn’t HATE THE MILITARY* so much, he’d know that anyone who lives near an Air Force base would disagree with him.

*he’s a journalist, therefore he required to hate the military (except when used to kill Serbs or Ruzzians).

[TheThirdRuffian]

Just stop.

In the last census,White British population accounted for 36.8% of London’s population, 63.2% of residents identifying with an ethnic minority group.

In the school system, 72% of pupils belong to an ethnic group other than White British.

[Bob434]

Smoking Joe says it’s under $1000 now- still kinda high, but a .ot better than I imagined it would be- good for folks that have to travel for business and can write it off.

[SmokingJoe]

True.
But then people have been exaggerating the Muslim population in these big cities for a long time.
Muslims have had very little political power in NYC as far as I can see.
This new guy hasn't even won yet and if he wins, I doubt he can implement Islamic policies in New York City with Trump in power.

[smokingfrog]

Somehow, I don’t see it happening. There may not be enough people willing to pay the price to get there a few hours faster.

[IWONDR]

“ Now if I can scratch up the 15K per ticket it will likely cost to fly on the new Concorde....” Back in the early 1990’s, Cunard cruise line had a limited special offer. If you booked a transatlantic passage on their ocean liner the QE2, you could return to the states from London Heathrow on the British Airways Concorde for $300 !

[BobL]

Don’t be surprised, some people have not been to London, at least recently. We’ll see with NYC though.

[JSM_Liberty]

“I doubt he can implement Islamic policies in New York City with Trump in power. “

The bigger block on him will be the state government. Almost all of his very left wing ideas will require state approval, the feds will play virtually no part.

[JSM_Liberty]

At the last census London was about 15% Muslim

[fuzzylogic]

As a British ex-pat - I hate to say it, but London has been conquered.

[SmokingJoe]

Sounds about the right figure to me.

[SmokingJoe]

By who?

[Secret Agent Man]

It only tzkes 5% before they start becoming a real problem.