Maybe they'll con someone into it. Or pull an Astra, go private, and then con someone new.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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You don't think their current business model is viable?
What business?
Fair point. They did have a decent launch cadence in 2023, but their existing fleet was evidently not profitable enough.
I thought they had enough of a war chest to ride out the flight stoppage, but I guess not. I don't see it with them. Tourism flights and low capacity point to point doesn't seem like enough to sustain a real company. Blue Origin can do it because they don't need to make money.
That's remarkably cheap.
And remarkably non-existent? They talk about fleets when they can barely scrape together a single airframe that doesn’t fall apart
Which of VG's airframes fell apart?
Oh the conclusion was pilot error:
But reading the through the findings you’d think there would’ve been some failsafe system before the maneuver