For heavens sake forget Bransons silly
PR stunt.
He could not possibly operate Concorde even if he could get one for a quid.
He has no spare engines or parts. No engineers qualified to even tough a concorde. No suitable hangar and no essential specialised tools.
Not to mention no flight engineers or indeed, pilots who know how to fly the aircraft. He has no simulators to train crews with and he has no license from the CAA to operate a Concorde.
Even were he to go to such lengthy and crushingly expensive efforts to sort all these problems (God knows how much the pilots alone would want to leave the top of the BA seniority list) he would really struggle to find anyone willing to insure his operation.
Its a pipedream.
Branson championed himself as wanting to break up BA's monopoly and help out the consumer. Strange now he is dead against dropping the BermundaII treaty and really opening up the market. He is quite happy with his duopoly out of LHR thank you very much.
In fact its not. Its a cynical
PR exercise whereby Branson muscles in on a story that has got nothing to do with him. I suggest you read the Tom Bower book on Branson to see that this is typical of the man.
I dislike his elbowing in on the end of the Concorde story. Most people won't ever know that he was talking bull**** just to get his name in the papers again. They'll think BA simply gave up whereas in fact their commitment to the aircraft has been immense for decades.
Not fair. Not sporting. Not British.
Typical Branson.
PS Not my post ; but from peterskellan - though I'm sure he wont mind me posting it here because it Sums up Branson nicely.