Originally Posted by
tdracer
I'm pretty sure the manufacturers never showed a profit (except perhaps for the manufactures of red ink).
no **** sherlock!
that's not what I was getting at, BA operated them at a significant profit for years, hell, they spent millions re-furbishing them not long before Airbus pulled the plug.
As for manufacture, once the US effectively banned it, the whole case for it fell apart and the orders received disappeared, we will never know what it could have been had politics, the 73-74 market crash and oil crisis.