Well, that's it then. BA is now just another ordinary airline. The halo effect of Concorde faded and died this afternoon. I saw all 3 of them land at LHR ... fantistic, but so sad.
There were the BA bosses, poncing around with their glasses of champagne, smiling, and really believing they were doing us all a great favour. From the VIP areas they didn't see the faces of the ordinary people, some of whom had travelled hundreds of miles out of their love for the machine, and who'd paid for it with their taxes all those years ago.
How do they sleep at night? Rod and the boys managed today to destroy the country's hope in itself and will go down in history as having, with a single blow, alienated and turned the country against BA and at the same time enabled all of its competitors to celebrate.
If they were losing so much money, why didn't they GIVE them to Virgin? At the rate of loss BA claimed, Virgin would have been bust in no time at all! Unless, of course, the losses were all just "spin"?
BA - run by an Australian. How would the Aussies feel if a Brit turned up and destroyed the Sydney Opera House ... Ayres Rock ... the Great Barrier Reef ... and Koala Bears?
Well, I feel better now .... but not much.
"The world is now a bigger place".