Many of the One Percenters are apparently desperate for something that their money can’t yet buy: the ability to fly at least twice as fast as rest of us.
Since the Concorde supersonic passenger jet was grounded after a crash in 2003, an uneasy leveling has prevailed in air travel. The rich have been unable to buy the privilege of cruising at 1,300 mph across the Atlantic while everybody else was limited to a mere 600 mph. – READ MORE