"BA retired Concorde because it was no longer viable - BA is a company with shareholders - what do you expect?"
Yes - that's about all one could expect from ba these days. No pride, no idea of the loss that the nation feels.... Now that they're so dull and grey and the 'Dirty Tricksters' are still being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds per annum, their public image will just become ever more tarnished. Skippy was totally uninspiring on TV - I wonder whether it was a 'political' decision to interview him on his own and not to have John and Raymond Baxter in the same room at the time?
If Sir RB said that he could have made Concorde 'viable', at least then he should have been allowed to try. Cancelling a few Airbus orders in favour of more Boeings might have made the point to the OEM as well......
Perhaps the ba callsign should change to "Slowbird" now?