Chicago, Illinois – Boeing, the American multinational  aerospace and defense corporation that manufactures a good chunk of the world’s passenger aircraft has announced that it will start building jets capable of transporting passengers to the future.

The announcement came just days after particle physicist Brian Cox, in a presentation at the British Science Festival, said that time travel is possible but only in one direction.

“The central question is, can you build a time machine? The answer is yes, you can go into the future,” the University of Manchester professor told the audience during his hour-long speech on Tuesday.  “You’ve got almost total freedom of movement in the future.”

Cox detailed how time travel to the future is possible under Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Traveling hundreds, or even thousands of years into the future, could be accomplished if someone was traveling at an incredibly fast pace, close to the speed of light.

Boeing said that it is working on a prototype model aircraft that would travel at, or faster than, the speed of light.  Company officials however acknowledged that the cost of building the aircraft will be enormous considering that each flight of the time-travel jet will be one way. This would mean that the cost of airfare on these jets will also be monumental since the airlines will never see their jets again after take off. “In effect, passengers will be paying not only for the opportunity to travel to the future but also for their prorated share of the total cost of the aircraft, ” Boeing said.

Boeing however sees this project as a gold mine, since airlines will constantly be ordering new aircraft for every flight to the future that they will be scheduling.