Originally Posted by
mike-wsm
Yes, an immense technical success. But not, I think, a commercial one.
Nobody is arguing that....
But maybe you could at least get your "facts" riight, rather than quote urban legends?
Sales figures
Concorde: 0
747: 1400+
Nope.
Nine were
sold to the two national airlines.
Admittedly with some prompting, and probably at a discount relative to the catalogue price, but they were
sold.
Only the five remaining white tails were later ceded for a nominal sum each to the airlines, rather than let them rot.
Even so, in 1984 BA thought it worth it to "buy out of" the government subsidy arrangement and acquire the spares holding and G-BBDG for about £16M, and went on to make an operating profit.
The rest of your comments are not really worth mentioning.
And what exactly does this have to do with the subject of this thread?
CJ