After the totally avoidable AF Concorde accident, AF really wanted rid of Concorde. As last week's Discovery documentary identified, AF's practices never were fully exposed in a report which conveniently bruhed them aside.... Hence the 'lack of support' from AI for Concorde was extremely convenient for the French - allowing them an excuse to kill off the Concorde with undignified haste.
Had the French had sufficient interest in continuing to fly Concorde, do you really think that Airbus wouldn't have had to rethink their level of support?
This whole affair is utterly shameful.