^^To quote a bit more from the article:
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. . . commercial ventures such as Boom Aerospace, Spike Aerospace and Aerion are moving ahead with their own plans to test supersonic planes. At the Paris Air Show, Boom announced that it had 76 orders for supersonic planes from five airlines, and that it planned to fly a demonstrator aircraft late next year . . . .
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Seems like there's a market. As I recall, the Concordes usually filled their seats with business and well-healed travellers. But in the US market, anyway, they were largely restricted to trans-Atlantic flight where their sonic boom was over the ocean and they could land in more welcoming (because it was European flag carriers flying them) European airports. If the boom is substantially mitigated, things could be different.