Flight times of an hour from anywhere on the planet to anywhere IIRC
A 1 hour US to Asia route that charged 50k a seat could likely be viable. That’s ultra first class, but finding ~100 passengers each way per day should be easy. It’s only expanding to more routes that would be problematic.
PS: The fuel costs would actually be comparable to a regular flight. It’s mostly a question of how many trips the rocket could make and how many passengers it could carry.
If rocket travel ever becomes a thing, it will involve suborbital hops.
Plus we will never be able to scale rocketry to the thousands of flights per day that are occuring today (with an unbelievable safety record).
>Passengers switch planes and arrive anywhere in the World in three hours or less.
You're never going to get that. EVER. International airports today tend to be situated far from urban centers because of noise concerns, safety, and cost. These issues are magnified with rockets. Launchpads would have to be placed even further out and pre-boarding checks would take forever.
For God's sake, the Concord wasn't allowed to go supersonic until it was over open ocean. You think tens or hundreds of rocket launches per day will EVER be allowed to be anywhere near any urban center?
This is such a naive view. Rockets will never be good for passenger travel.