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Their earnings are up on a year-over-year basis they've guided now to q4 their earnings are going to be up on a year-over-year basis and the consensus expectations in q1 are that earnings are going to observed
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We'll do as much as we can on the ground. What we have to do in the air, we'll do in the air. And then we will, all along the way, we're working with the FAA and generating their buy-in so that when we're all done, everyone agrees it's ready for passengers.
I think what we're going to see with air travel is the market for supersonic jets is much, much larger than the market for subsonic jets. Because when flights are faster, people travel more.
Overture is the first of what's going to be a whole family of products. We're going to build a smaller one that's a private jet. We'll build a larger one that can have a coach cabin in it. There will be a whole family of airplanes, just the same way Boeing and Airbus have a whole family of airplanes.
United was first to place an order with a deposit. And I think, I have an enormous amount of gratitude for the leadership team at United that had the vision to place an order for supersonic jets during COVID. And it was really Scott Kirby and Mike Leskinen who looked at COVID and said, everyone else is retrenching. This is actually the time to build for the future. And so they made a couple of bold bets. They made a bet on supersonic flight and they made a bet on eVTOL and they were willing to p
And these are United Airlines Air Canada are our anchor customers. And they're like, we need the regional flow. We need the feeding of the hubs, but it's just hard to make the economics work because like jet engine maintenance is such a big, big ticket item.
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Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 698 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 698 United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic 2021-06-03 ↗
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common_name | United Airlines | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-18 | normalized | 0.60 |
community.hn.max_points | 698 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-18 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 50 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-18 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [] | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-18 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27380752", "title": "United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic", "points": 698, "created_at": "2021-06-03"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2021-06-03 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27380752", "title": "United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic", "points": 698, "created_at": "2021-06-03"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2021-06-03 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27380752", "title": "United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic", "points": 698, "created_at": "2021-06-03"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2021-06-03 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27380752", "title": "United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic", "points": 698, "created_at": "2021-06-03"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2021-06-03 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27380752", "title": "United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic", "points": 698, "created_at": "2021-06-03"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2021-06-03 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27380752", "title": "United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic", "points": 698, "created_at": "2021-06-03"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2021-06-03 | normalized | 0.20 |
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platform.index_excluded | true | derived | calc | 2026-09-28 | normalized | 0.99 |
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