I'm sure that I read somewhere that someone wanted to use several aircraft for research connected with future hypersonic travel, operating them from Scotland when required, but letting them sit in museums for much of the year. Can someone point me at what I read, or did I dream it?
Isn't the real reason for BA's decision its belief that profits on subsonic business class will now be much higher, because no-one will go and fly Concorde instead, and isn't that exactly why the prospect of Branson operating them such an anathema?