can they pull it off? they will need a lot of it and it is in short supply. that will raise the costs, with tickets at $25,000! good luck with that. a lot of promises right now. you touched on the cost. this is going to be for an elite few who can afford to spend this much on a plane ticket. that's right. that's not what they want it to be, but let's face it, concorde was that way. in today's dollars, it would be around $13,000 for a round trip, new york to london. that's probably what the cost is going to be for this new venture. i don't know how they can make it much cheaper. they talk about efficiencies, 50 years of plane technology, but it is a long way to get it down to $2500 per ticket. who is going to pay? the government, private investors?