When I had a jump seat ride in a Concorde trip from/to a regional airport back in the days, the FO (please note) carried out a fully manual landing; it was stick and rudder stuff, right back to basics. I can still vividly recall my sheer terror as we appeared to be aiming for the middle of the 2,000m runway, way beyond the TDZ. Just as I got resigned to dying in a smoking hole in the village beyond the far end, the main wheels touched down in precisely the right place.
I understood that those joy-ride flights that BA did at regional airports, typically an hour or so for about £400 a head, were primarily to enable the pilots, RHS and LHS, to do the minimum landings to stay current, because this could not be done on scheduled services alone. The £40K income would not have gone very far towards the cost of each flight, even if the positioning legs from/to LHR were also sold, as they usually were.