I don't think Air France would take any notice of anything BA said re Concorde and Branson. The beardy one is a great opportunist and a great marketing guy - I run technical tours on one of the BA Concordes and the number of visitors who mutter darkly that "they should have given 'em to Branson - he'd have kept 'em flying" is amazing. Virgin Trains seems to have done nothing to blunt the British public's faith in the guy.
I did jump seat G-BOAD for an entire flight, push back to landing including mach 2.02 at 60,000 feet, and it was an amazing experience.
Interesting comment from Gordon in this thread that 2007 would have been tops. Anyone who has been on a Concorde flight deck will see how old these birds are now. I'm amazed the engineers managed to keep them going as long as they did. But Gordon knows his Concorde stuff, so I expect he is correct.
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