While Musk is not developing a model himself he tweeted in July 2017 that the U.S. government had approved his proposal for an East Coast Hyperloop between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington D.C. that would make a daily commute between the cities a possibility. A development of this calibre would have unprecedented effects on travel, not only making the commute of city workers in ginormous countries like the U.S. exponentially easier but also opening the doors for tourists looking to take luxury holidays involving multiple stop-overs.
A new wave of baby boomers
Talking of up-market travel, who remembers the Concord? A supersonic plane that travelled twice as fast as the speed of sound and could transport passengers from London to New York in only three and a half hours; it was the pinnacle of luxury long haul.
The plane was retired in 2003 after numerous crashes that made it unsafe for commercial use, and we all went back to lengthy overnight flights and the dreaded plane food. But now another supersonic passenger jet is being developed with the support of, you guessed it, Richard Branson which could blast even the Concord out of the water, and make a weekend trip to another continent as effortless as one to the English countryside.
‘Boom Supersonic’ is hoping to begin test flights of its first plane, the adorably named Baby Boom, by the end of 2018 and, if successful, could be transporting passengers across the Atlantic in a mere three hours and fifteen minutes by 2025. Potentially less than ten years until Boom is blasting through our skies and the Hyperloop is catapulting across our countries, what an exciting prospect.
Clearly long distance luxury travel is being revolutionized and here at Black Tomato we are brimming with excitement at the thought of one day soon helping our clients discover all four corners of the globe in supersonic splendour.