Usually, us Brits have got an amazing ability to shoot ourselves in the foot in the name of fair play to all. Lets stop this and do what Johnny foreigner does as a matter of course. For such a flagship aircraft, it should be allowed to skip the queue.
Anyway, if Concorde does go from 10th to 1st, doesn't everyone else just drop down a place? If going from 7th to 8th does cause someone else to divert, surely they must have been pretty marginal on fuel anyway?
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