As a pilot, Americans are incredibly sensitive to aircraft noise. And regulators do all sorts of stuff to route planes around noise sensitive areas.

It breaks noise regs to fly most subsonic 1960s eras jets with their original engines these days, you have to modify them with hush kits, etc.

They forced a lot of these very American jets to be quiet for the sake of just the landing and takeoff phases. I have a hard time seeing that they would/will find a way to make sonic booms acceptable to the general public.

> I have a hard time seeing that they would/will find a way to make sonic booms acceptable to the general public.

NASA has a research craft aiming to make the noise profile more of a "thump" than "boom": https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-lockheed-martin-revea...

That doesn’t fit with my understanding about the cancelation of the Boeing SST project.

I suspect many more Americans could potentially sue the airline for the noise than English or French, due to the structure of the respective legal systems. So the financial risk of overland operations over the US, even with the ban lifted, could be too high still.

No chance, far too loud, and I doubt Boom will get approval either