If you prefer a left-leaning newspaper, you can read the same story at the Guardian:
Newspaper and Guardian is an oxymoron.
....BA should have sold them to Branson when he offered.
Branson (the launch customer for the A380 remember?) would have painted them in his livery and then not flown them. He had no intention nor ability to fly them but then why should practicalities interfere with his self-serving public posturing?
Might I just add how pessimistic everyone was when the vulcan was said to be making a return.
And having sucked millions of £s for the past few years it is now errrr.....grounded again after this season. It is arguable if it was worth it but please not another bottomless pit just to keep one aircraft in the air to satisfy those whose misty eyed nostalgia overrules their common sense.