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A 747 carries 500 passengers, Concorde carried 100. Your costs per seat mile are going to be at least 5x higher.

The Concorde engine was efficient at cruise - and pretty awful everywhere else. At cruise it was about 10% more efficient than a GE90. But the Concorde had 4 of them, and a 777 has 2 GE90s.

This is also why you don't see 4 engined planes anymore, except for the A380 and most people were hell bent on retiring during the pandemic until they couldn't get more 787s/A350s and the 777X is delayed.



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