Elon Musk tweeted that he is looking at 1000 passengers for point to point travel. Because it will be a 20-minute flight on a fully reusable then the ticket cost could be $500-1000 per person. It will feel like a roller coaster but you will exit on another continent.
Ticket prices in the $500 to 2000 range would be business class or even competitive with international economy airline tickets. However, the flight times would be 20 minutes instead of 8-24 hours.
If SpaceX can reach improved safety then they would be able to replace almost all flights with over 8 hour flying time for coach, business, first class and private jet.
There were over 4.1 billion flights and over 1 billion were longer flights. Flights are increasing at about 10% per year.
~1000, as all seats would be “coach” & no toilets, pilot area or food galley needed. Most flights would only be 15 to 20 mins. It’s basically an ICBM traveling at Mach 25 that lands.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 26, 2019
That would be unwise. Probably needs a restraint mechanism like Disney’s Space Mountain roller coaster. Would feel similar to Space Mountain in a lot of ways, but you’d exit on another continent.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 26, 2019
SOURCES- Elon Musk Twitter
Written by Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com