Originally Posted by
robertbartsch
This was a technical marvel but a total commercial failure. Why?
Robert,
This thread is meant to talk about the Concorde crash, not to kick in open doors. Please ?
Many in the TV series said if the crash did not happen that the Concordes would still be flying today. I'm not sure on this one.
Well .... what do you expect from a "TV series" ?
If the crash hadn't happened, BA and AF wouldn't have needed to do the 'return-to-service' modifications.
That's all.
The rest of the world would have gone on turning, "9/11", SARS, the Iraq war, the economic crisis, etc. would still have happened, and the reasons for ending the service in 2003 would have been unxchanged.
In an alternative universe, with the same or a better economy as in 2000, Concorde would have remained in service.
We were looking at keeping Concorde flying until about 2010 or maybe even 2013....
There were no technical obstacles that could not have been overcome.
CJ