Have to agree with you guys £2.5m is nothing as once they have the Vulc going how will they find pilots for it and how can they possibly maintain it at vast cost. I regularly see the guys at Southend at work and when you see the two pilots that do the fast taxis they appear to be well into their 60+. So very soon there will be no one that can operate the Vulcans.
The yardstick of any possible chance of sucess would have been Concordes survival as a flyer need I say more.