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Old 27th August 2005 | 12:46
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Skylion
 
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What a load of rubbish! The BA aircraft were almost wrapped in cotton wool by their engineers. All incidents were reported and recorded, along with those involving any of their other fleets, in their monthly reports which had a wide readership.
On a different tack, but worth mentioning, unlike AF, BA was highly proactive and creative in marketing Concorde and was very active in the business of spare hours charters ranging from " Round the Bay" to " Round the World",together with a limited additional peak scheduled service operation to Bahrein around 1984 and 85, later replicated by a similar operation to Jeddah in the early 90s. Barbados became a regular peak season feature and further ad hoc operations which were sold publicly rather than through charters included Hong Kong and Jakarta. All these were meticulously planned in accordance with a deep safety-first culture.
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