It is Sir Richard himself who uses Concordes retirement as a point scoring exercise against BA.
Sir Richard has not the ability or interest to run a commercial conorde service in my opinion. If he did he would have tried to buy the considerably lower mileage French Concorde fleet that have been available for some time.
BA have engineered a dignified retirement for the fleet and I applaud them in in doing so.
It would be a sad day if Sir Richard acquired them, used them for a very short time to gain publicity then dumped them somewhere doubtless covered in his company logos for posterity.
He has no spares, no hangars, no national agreements to operate, no AOC for the type, no engineers, no pilots, the manufacturer is stopping support for the type and it was always going to retire in just a few years anyway.
Hardly a compelling business case.
Good luck to the record attempt. Just, please, grow up and stop using every event to have a go at BA. Oh, and someone please explain why Sir Richard was wearing a silver flight suit yesterday?
Cheers
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