Good on Boeing - Mach 0.98 would have been a pointless addition to their line-up. However - Mach 1.8 is still nowhere near the Mach 2.2 of Concorde that was developed 30 years ago. Concorde has shown that people pay to go fast so why bitch about cost? I say beat Concorde! With current technology it can't be too hard to travel faster than Concorde at a price far less than Concorde costed to develop (in excess of 1 billion pounds sterling in 1960/70's currency