If it is already paid for, and I believe someone said BAe still have the workers tinkering with the a/c earlier on in the forum, are they now finishing it to sell on?? could you imagine, I would not surprise me, that would be a shareholders wet dream, 4 billion quid off the country and then another few $$ selling them on...is that possible??
Even without selling them on the situation is already a shareholders wet dream -- the entire fleet already paid for and now no one is going to bug them to fix all the (numerous) outstanding problems.
A better result for BAE is hard to imagine.