its not about the crashes. The Concorde is very expensive to operate. maintenance costs are very high especialy these days. also, the ticket prices are too high. But still it was a magnificent aircraft. Anyone heard if Virgin Atlantic is gonna buy some?

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I don't think this was ever likely to happen. BA & Virgin hate one another's guts. BA would do almost anything to prevent it. IMHO

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To the best of my knowledge the aircraft belong to BA & Air France. The BA Concordes were sold to them for just £1 each when the company was privatised in 1987, thus writing off £millions of debt. I don't see how this concerns the UK Government unless they were asked to subsidise the service. I'm sure this would be refused outright.

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ok simply put branson went to the government asking for help but as they said, once BA went private it became none of their business and branson was on his own. i dont know what this crashing all the time is about, one crash, and a few incidents.
the other problem is Airbus, air france went to them and said they couldnt afford the parts anymore and that the parts they had were becoming less and less, it got to a point where BA had to give AF a few of their rudders, and now need them back to keep concorde flying till oct. airbus then decided after AF pulled out of the deal to stop supplying the parts to BA because it wouldnt have been an affordable option, as it has always been known it needed two companys to keep it flying. the whole concorde being bought for £1 is alot more complex as others have been stating, bransons been spouting it around like nobodys business because he knows the general public wouldnt know any differant and it would make him look good and BA bad, when in reality BA have spent billions on the plane since its introduction, the special lounges the upgrades to the planes,  the licenses it needed to fly some of the places it did and so on. as big a loss as it is, in the end BA and AF will only benifit from it being gone thats for sure and branson had no intention of actually getting hold of the plane, it was simply another piece of publicity. airbus told him to get lost when he came to them BA told him the same and so did airfrance.

i dislike branson so much because he doesnt have a clue what he is really doing, his trains are among the worst on the rails, his planes arnt exactly great either,  and yet the money he could use improving these things is being spent on islands for his employees and a new toys for himself. when stars have been abusive to his staff on his planes or just being a nuscience, he doesnt bring about legal action like he should, he goes around saying, oh well they are welcome on my planes anytime they want. he is a pompus assh**e in my opinion

fair enough:)
i try to avoid the business side of things anyway, not really my cup of tea, i personally think if you can run your competition out of town then your all the better for it:)
ah well, in the end concordes goin never to return i'll trundle down to heathrow on its final flight i think(if i am still in uk) and watch take off for the last time