Firstly total respect to the F/E's (and Pilots of course) - being treated badly by BA isn't out of the ordinary these days, it's not the old BOAC days on the VC-10 and 707 thats for sure, those days are long long gone, nowadays shoddy treatment is standard
PAXBoy My argument is Branson, for all his self styled publicity, is a bloody good businessman, I mean starting with a single 741, look where he is now, I don't need to hammer that of course, we all know.
It seems that BA is making the financial judgement on behalf of Virgin (as the link by Rod in my previous post substantiates), and stating that we ain't selling 'em coz we don't think anyone can make a go of them (or more likely as I said, Rod thinks Branson
will make a go of them if anyone can, and heap major major ridicule on BA, it would be a flying embarrassment to them, Rod would be more of a laughing stock than he already is!)
At least give Branson a chance, if he falls on his face, isn't that better than no chance at all?
After all BA (BOAC?) got them from HM Government for free!
The Pilots and esp the F/E's I think would also be rather grateful (can you imagine the potential BA slagging in the cockpit amongst the crew on a Virgin Concorde, it would be
classic!)
Flying Lawyer You mean they are hedging their bets? Possibly, but my faith in Rod isn't too high (as you may have gathered), he'll follow the path of "Grand Schemes Galore Ayling Bob" mark my words.
On another point, have most of the fleet been D-Checked as part of the safety upgrades?
And to play devils advocate, why didn't the frogs flog their retired fleet to Branson? All I can find is "Billionaire Branson attempted to buy several of Air France's Concordes a few years ago, French newspaper Le Monde said"