Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson is planning to launch a new service for his Virgin Atlantic brand that would see a flight from the UK to the US take just three and a half hours.
The planned ‘affordable’ supersonic flight is expected to start at £1750, or £3500 return, a price that is considerably less than a flight with Concorde’s which cost £5400 one-way.
Should the plan go ahead it would be possible to reach the New York from London faster than a train ride to Glasgow. It usually takes around seven hours to fly to NYC.
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Source: The Drum
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