Concorde conspiracy theory - please read!!!
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Taken from a specialist avaiation forum. This is believed to be the real reasons in chronological order of why Concordes future as the great british airline failed. Makes very interesting reading!!!!
1.Air France had a millstone and they did not know what to do with it (losing money hand over fist).
2.Airfrance decide to scrap.
3.Airfrance now have a poblem, if they scrap and BA continues they are seen as incompetent at best, malicious and incompetant at worst, and an affront to Frances world prestige.
We know that they can act this way, see the pressure on the CAA to supend Concord(e) flights after the accident.
4.Airfrance gets together with French Government and Aerospatial to be released from flying the bird, and hinting that it would not look good if BA were to continue to fly at a profit and inherited all the prestige at France's expense.
5.Aerospatiale now sugests to the French government that it will look once again at the figures, but in a less charitable light since it is not now French prestige at stake allowing the aircraft to fly (perhaps some creative bookeeping has been going on to allow the French government to effectively subsidise Concord(e) by the back door through aerospatiale).
6.Aerospatial now raise the servicing price.
7.Aerospatiale then decide to withdraw the Type Certificate to cap it all.
8 Faced with this BA capitulate, as they are getting no backing from the British government, against aerospatiale,
9.Branson now comes on the scene.
10.BA are now in the same boat as AirFrance. If Branson gets the
aircraft he could prove them publically andembarrasingly wrong, and that would be catastrophic, seriously threatening the financial stability of the company (The ratner trap).
11. Branson reveals he has backing from Middle east oil interests and intends to extend the flying routes back to Dubai. To the guys at aerospatiale and BA House, he now appears to have the limitless resources needed to actually bring this off.
12.Aerospatiale panic also for they could be asked to surrender design authority, and nightmare of all nightmares, Branson transfers design authority across the pond, and gives the keys to aerospatiales supersonic research to the americans (in exchange he gets preferential subsidised maintenance from JFK "a pathetic short term advantage" for selling France's "Birthright").
13.BA is put further under the hammer. There might be price revisions on the future fleet of airbuses that BA might want to order, if he goes along with this transfer. This in turn threatens BA stability.
Hence the determined standoff.
Why does the British government stand off?
Ans:-
Because France has now invested a lot of prestige in getting out of this deal, and things are sticky enough in the Council of ministers without France taking further umbrage at America's poodle, who could now be portrayed as deceitfully manoeuvring to steal EUROPEAN airspace secrets from the custody of the French only to hand them over for nothing to the Americans...once again comfirming how faithless the traitorous British are (and who will sell their own mothers for "half a sou").
1.Air France had a millstone and they did not know what to do with it (losing money hand over fist).
2.Airfrance decide to scrap.
3.Airfrance now have a poblem, if they scrap and BA continues they are seen as incompetent at best, malicious and incompetant at worst, and an affront to Frances world prestige.
We know that they can act this way, see the pressure on the CAA to supend Concord(e) flights after the accident.
4.Airfrance gets together with French Government and Aerospatial to be released from flying the bird, and hinting that it would not look good if BA were to continue to fly at a profit and inherited all the prestige at France's expense.
5.Aerospatiale now sugests to the French government that it will look once again at the figures, but in a less charitable light since it is not now French prestige at stake allowing the aircraft to fly (perhaps some creative bookeeping has been going on to allow the French government to effectively subsidise Concord(e) by the back door through aerospatiale).
6.Aerospatial now raise the servicing price.
7.Aerospatiale then decide to withdraw the Type Certificate to cap it all.
8 Faced with this BA capitulate, as they are getting no backing from the British government, against aerospatiale,
9.Branson now comes on the scene.
10.BA are now in the same boat as AirFrance. If Branson gets the
aircraft he could prove them publically andembarrasingly wrong, and that would be catastrophic, seriously threatening the financial stability of the company (The ratner trap).
11. Branson reveals he has backing from Middle east oil interests and intends to extend the flying routes back to Dubai. To the guys at aerospatiale and BA House, he now appears to have the limitless resources needed to actually bring this off.
12.Aerospatiale panic also for they could be asked to surrender design authority, and nightmare of all nightmares, Branson transfers design authority across the pond, and gives the keys to aerospatiales supersonic research to the americans (in exchange he gets preferential subsidised maintenance from JFK "a pathetic short term advantage" for selling France's "Birthright").
13.BA is put further under the hammer. There might be price revisions on the future fleet of airbuses that BA might want to order, if he goes along with this transfer. This in turn threatens BA stability.
Hence the determined standoff.
Why does the British government stand off?
Ans:-
Because France has now invested a lot of prestige in getting out of this deal, and things are sticky enough in the Council of ministers without France taking further umbrage at America's poodle, who could now be portrayed as deceitfully manoeuvring to steal EUROPEAN airspace secrets from the custody of the French only to hand them over for nothing to the Americans...once again comfirming how faithless the traitorous British are (and who will sell their own mothers for "half a sou").
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