Concorde: The Comeback

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I've just been watching this on Discovery Turbo.
It's heartbreaking to see these people talking about doing things that will last to the end of the plane and how they're not going to need to be replaced for 10-15 years and how optimistic they are about it flying again.
Of course whilst knowing what happened to Concorde now makes the program seem even more tragic, the way these people were so optimistic and the amount of money spent not on just keeping it flying but provisions for training new pilots to take over from the guys who retire in the next 5-8 years
How this could be let to happen and not just happen but make sure all the planes will never fly again, not even for displays, it's criminal really.

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Eric Mc said:

Why?

It was a commercial operation. When commerce dictates that if it isn't commercially viable then opperations need to cease.

I was under the impression BA were actually making money on concorde, even if it was a commercial operation, once they ceased to be used as such there was no need to make sure that they couldn't be maintained for future display use, there were plenty of groups that would have had one and kept it as close to flight worthy as they could have and it wouldn't have cost BA anything.
I'd wager a decent sum of money that concorde if it was run like the Vulcan to the sky campaign would take in far more money that the vulcan does.