Passenger market for suborbital, hypersonic transports.

While they do not manufacture their aircraft, they control and essentially manufacture the travel experience. Virign is know for things such as free limousine pick-up for business clients.

The fact that Airlines can't manufacture their own aircraft means that their competitive advantages have to come from somewhere else. Strong brand awareness is one of those.

A catastrophic accident would be a huge liability and have to be carefully managed.

Since the for the future by Virgin Galactic "announced" price for SS2-trips of $ 20,000 ist´stressed I mention that there is a thread in the Financial Barriers section where I have shown already that such a price is possible and reasonable - and the number of people registered for a suborbital trip allows for it by far since that number is beyond 80,000 in between since long.

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Dipl.-Volkswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)

There's a difference between showing interest, and actually buying the trip

Hello, IrquiM,

Virgin Galactic have said that their Business Plan is to fly 50,000 passengers within 10 years and that this will get them profits of 25% per year of their investment - each year of those ten years. They haven't started operational flights yet and so those ten years haven't begun yet - but more than 80,000 people are registered already. This means that this number has a good chance to grow after the beginning of operationa flights.

But 50,000 within ten years and thus 5,000 per year are sufficient to decrease the price down to $ 20,000.

From all this together it is relatively likely that the price will be decreased that much really and the technological discussion here is essential.

That's what I have in mind - I didn't take the 80,000 as peope who have bought tickets.



Dipl.-Vokswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)