Spot on Bazzer; BA threw away millions lining fuel tanks with self sealing non- combustible material, re-configured the cabins, (not that they needed much doing anyway) and had the aircraft back in service with a big blaze of publicity for some time before the manufacturer pulled the plug (and for that we must thank Aerospatiale, or Airbus Industrie as it became). They point blank refused to keep guaranteeing engineering support, and without that keeping the aircraft in service became untenable..for both BA and AF...and no matter what the "grinning pullover" was offering , he could have done SFA about it...Having said that the fuel price would probably have led to the coup de grace eventually..