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Old 27th Feb 2003, 06:30
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Leclairage
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Great suggestion Dop - More combined displays with the Red Arrows after Concs retirement would be awesome.

They were all gifted to BA by the british government, so all they have to face is increased maintenance costs to keep them flying. They have done extremely well by the aircraft in both financial and marketing terms, so, if the BA management are as great as appears to be the opinion in the posts above, then hopefully they will repay the debt they owe to her and keep her flying within their fleet, even though they seem to be papering the loads to get bums on seats, and thus losing financial yield.

Or at least have the decency whenever she DOES retire from revenue service, to make the same gesture as the brit government made to them, and pass them on to another organisation, be it a revenue or display operation in the condition in which they received it. i.e. in good working order, financially unencumbered.
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