American Airlines buys 20 supersonic planes to zip travelers across the globe in half the time
American Airlines on Tuesday said that it has ordered 20 supersonic planes, aircrafts that can carry passengers at twice the speed of today’s fastest commercial aircraft. American has become the third major airline to announce a supersonic order from Boom Aviation in Denver, following in the footsteps of Japan Airlines in 2017 and United Airlines in 2021. "We want to do supersonic as quickly as possible," Boom CEO Blake Scholl said. "We think the world needs this.” The aircraft, dubbed the Overture, can get travelers from Miami to London in less than 5 hours instead of the typical 8 hours and 40 minutes — all for about the cost of a first-class ticket. Attendees walk past a poster of a Boom Supersonic concept Overture aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow, in Farnborough, England, on July 18, 2022. Justin Tallis / AFP - Getty Images file Airlines' moves to go supersonic echo a previous attempt to do the same. The Concorde, a trans-Atlantic supersonic commercial airli...