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The US has banned overland commercial supersonic flights, so yea, going cross country is still an issue but there's still very lucrative oceanic routes that would be unaffected. Also, there's large, sparsely settled parts of the US, Canada and Russia that aircraft routinely fly great circle routes over where sonic booms would be of little to no concern.

From their FAQ:

>What about the sonic boom?

>Boom's airliner is designed to maximize efficiency while producing a “boom” at least 30 times quieter than Concorde's. ...

Has the esteemed commenter considered that perhaps they aren't total idiots and since the 1960s low volume sonic boom airframes have been built?

E.g. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lowboom/index.html

They are going to fly transoceanic routes to start so they don't have to worry about sonic booms over population centers.

Just don't go supersonic until the plane is over the ocean?