GlueBall
I'd think you will find that it was an AF aircraft that diverted to Nova-Scotia with 48Pax.
BA numbers were averaging in the 70s, in recent weeks that have been averaging 100.
What killed Concorde at BA, apart from Airbus, was that to fund these massive investement sums in 2004/5 (£40M+), BA needed the BA003 and 4 flights, but as was correctly mentioned, there was not the market for them.
If these big sums had not come along, BA would quite happy have operated Concorde till 2006/7, as it was making a tidy profit, although nothing like the tens of millions is made in the late 90s
My big issue is that these costs were not required until late 2004, so why did the manufacturer pull the support early? BA had bookings past October and there were no technical issues stopping flying until then. I wonder who was pulling Airbus' strings?
BA had to loose a big earning BGI season; you can't help thinking that the 84 Million write off would have come down a bit if they have flown for another 6-12 months. I guess contracts that were getting bought out early in 2003 would also have run longer, as well as giving the airline more tiem to pay back the reft and mods.