Simviation Forum - Concorde

Reply #30 - Nov 28^th, 2005 at 3:45am

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Politics killed Concorde. Not economics. British Airways made nothing but a profit with Concorde right up to the end.

Basically true but please remember that BA paid £1 each for those aircraft that the management had never wanted. Not much considering the vast amount of development & production costs funded by the British & French taxpayers which could never realistically be recovered. A huge debt was written off when BA was being privatised in the 1980s meaning that the new British Airways plc started off with a clean slate. This was all part of a government deal to keep Concorde in service.

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Reply #31 - Nov 28^th, 2005 at 5:28am

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Basically true but please remember that BA paid £1 each for those aircraft that the management had never wanted. Not much considering the vast amount of development & production costs funded by the British & French taxpayers which could never realistically be recovered. A huge debt was written off when BA was being privatised in the 1980s meaning that the new British Airways plc started off with a clean slate. This was all part of a government deal to keep Concorde in service.

Hi Doug.
While the aircraft cost BA £1, the infrastructure round it that BA had to pay for, cost them millions of £'s before they even started.

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Reply #32 - Dec 6^th, 2005 at 1:18am

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OK, it's gone and it feels like ages since I was last on the bird......all the way back to Mothers Day weekend, this past May...........
I remember it like it was less than a year ago !

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