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Originally Posted by aaron38
Actually no, because of great circle routes. Chicago to Hong Kong routes are over WI, Canada, Russia and China. Coming back, fly over Taiwan, Japan, Alaska.
The amount of time where the plane could go supersonic isn't worth the cost.
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A lot of the land that these great circle routes fly over is very sparsely populated (Northern Canada, Alaska, and Siberia) and there wouldn't really be any issues with sonic booms either.