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People realize it makes no sense to burn a lot and pay a lot to get no where fast.
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It was a very big money loser. The tickets were incredibly expensive and the fuel consumption was very high.
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There are a ton of engineering and economic compromises involved in building a supersonic passenger jet. The Concorde was developed with government subsidies, and it is uncertain that such an aircraft could be produced at competitive prices without them. Because of the demanding nature of supersonic flights, SSTs are smaller, carry fewer passenger, burn more fuel, and require more maintenance than traditional subsonic airliners. There are also environmental problems associated with flying SSTs, principally sonic booms and ozone-depleting emissions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
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Economic loss, inefficiency, cost per seat, and numerous sound plus sound barrier restrictions, not to mention environmental concerns. I used to watch three of them takeoff a day at JFK, and they made the Boeing 727 I flew seem not so noisy after all, and we would sometimes get citations for noise violations ourselves.
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