Thats good. But a shame... Do you think Concorde will look good in virgin paint?

And £1!!! I could afford that! (not sure on the running costs though....)

The quid thing Craig was the French and English governments writing off all the development costs, and then naming a nominal sum the airlines had to pay.
As for Concorde in Virgins paint scheme, I can think of worse

Ozzy

Ken you possess a singularly smutty mind, not gutter but sewer level. Congratualtions

i wont put a comment like the one i removed perhaps to harsh.
but i dont know what virgin is thinking about when they say they can make a profit using lower prices, even with a full load at BA's current prices concorde's profit margin wasnt all that much and required a few full loads a day to make it truely profitable.

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a few things i have read round the net,
firstly if branson did get one or two he wouldnt be able to paint them up in the virgin livery because of the heat it would just peel off or melt(dont know which) that was the first i read about.
second one was BA could call his bluff and sell him them and watch branson have some serious back peddling when he realises just how much poorer he could be because of it.
another was southwest airlines ??? what the f*ck were looking at getting one, why and how would they have a use for it, the plane couldnt go supersonic on any of the routes southwest flys let alone being able to afford to run it for more than a week.
i would love for it to stay flying but like i said, perhaps its time to put this one out to pasture. its a beautiful plane, perhaps the only plane almost anyone with eyes and ears could identify. but hey ya never know, i suppose we will know by october, one thing i am hoping is BA agree to giving one to filton as has been requested, seeing as it is its home base they really should, definatly be taking a drive up there to watch it come in if they do

Why would the paint melt of? (I know the answer ) If BA and Air France can paint the why not Virgin.

Hmmm. BA seem to change their tail colours every few weeks. Check out this lot.
http://airlinesgate.free.fr/articles/preview.htm
Maybe that's where all the profits went in the first place.

Apart from the cost involved I don't see a problem.  ???

It would be possiblefor branson to paint the concordes in the red livery without the paint stripping as long as he left the wings white.they done the same thing with the PEPSI concorde in 1996 and as far as I know They were trouble free

he just doesnt give up does he. oh i have also read he is lobbying to be able to fly into iraq soon aswell, but there is no way BA should just hand over the planes the lounge the gates and check in desks all for a £1 what i think branson is forgetting is although the planes may have only cost £1 each all those other things shoved costs right up, then there will be the lawsuits from museums who were promised a concorde(which BA were perfectly entitled to do) what i dont understand is why branson thinks the government can help, as far as i am aware BA are the owners of said plane even if it was the tax payers money who paid for the project, the gvment has no say over how BA decide what happens to their planes, they could throw them in the middle of the desert if they wanted to, ok it would be a huge mistake. perhaps branson should stop flapping his gums towards BA and go speak to air france

if he does promise them to the museums i might ease up a little on him i just dont trust him one bit. as for that laker guy i remember seeing a tv program on him a while back but still know little about him

Just Out of intrest, has anyone here ever been in a concorde?
I went in the prototype one at duxford aerodrome. We weren't even allowed to sit down in it let alone fly in it

I have once. Awesome just isn't the word, but having come from a background of 747s DC10s etc I was shocked how tiny it is inside!

Ozzy

Don't think there's any chance of this. Read somewhere that Virgin Atlantic is currently losing something like £12m a month. Also, the only people who can maintain and fly these planes are at BA and Air France and while Virgin are downsizing it's hardly likely that those people will want to move to Virgin.

Looks like another ghastly Richard Branson self publicity stunt (remember Virgin Weddings when he appeared in drag dressed as a bride and another time when he turned up in suspenders etc??)

I think you shouldn't hold your breath if you think Virgin can save Concorde