{"id":88823,"date":"2019-03-20T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/analysts-rocket-jumps-between-earth-cities-could-smash-airlines"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:44:03","slug":"analysts-rocket-jumps-between-earth-cities-could-smash-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/analysts-rocket-jumps-between-earth-cities-could-smash-airlines","title":{"rendered":"Analysts: Rocket Jumps Between Earth Cities Could Smash Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/analysts-rocket-jumps-between-earth-cities-could-smash-airlines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new report by Swiss investment bank UBS predicts that soon high speed travel through the near reaches of space will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/03\/18\/ubs-space-travel-and-space-tourism-a-23-billion-business-in-a-decade.html\">come to compete<\/a> with long-haul airline flights.<\/p>\n<p>UBS analysts estimate that space tourism alone will become a $3 billion market by 2030, while the space industry as a whole will double in worth from $400 billion today to $805 billion over the same period. And once we can spend a week of vacation in space, they ask, why not use the technology for Earth-bound long-distance travel?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace tourism could be the stepping stone for the development of long-haul travel on earth serviced by space,\u201d wrote UBS analysts Jarrod Castle and Myles Walton in the report, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/03\/18\/ubs-space-travel-and-space-tourism-a-23-billion-business-in-a-decade.html\">quoted by <em>CNBC<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/space-travel-disrupt-airlines\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/space-travel-disrupt-airlines\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by Swiss investment bank UBS predicts that soon high speed travel through the near reaches of space will come to compete with long-haul airline flights. UBS analysts estimate that space tourism alone will become a $3 billion market by 2030, while the space industry as a whole will double in worth from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}