How do you sell this aircraft to the customer airline accountants that has a fuel burn per passenger that is over double that of its competitor, even if the competitor comes in few hours later (its competitor may even be another Boeing product).
Airlines look are revenue per passenger mile, the more seats per unit of fuel and crew the better.
Most passengers look at the cost of the journey not the time it takes (exception on the North Atlantic Concorde routes). It would be a good direct replacement for the Concorde, but that is a very limited market.
The number of passengers on seats per crew is in the wrong direction, i.e. becoming more expensive.
This unconventional aircraft will require yet another Boeing cockpit that would bare little resemblance to others, more training expense for the customer airlines.
The aircraft will be more expensive due to new technologies that will need to be developed and the few airframes (if any) that will be sold. I didn’t think Boeing had anyone left in their design team to complete such a technologically risky project.
This aircraft does nothing to solve the problem of congested airports and airspace.
