World Cup Back on Concord
 

Wouldn't it be great if the World Cup & the England rugby team could be brought back on Concord.
Surely there is one left airworthy, just fill her up and Go!
What more fitting tribute, a sonic boom across the world marking the passing of the world's best rugby team and aircraft.
Could the aussie head of BA stomach it?

What a fantastic idea

it would be even better if this wonderful aircraft that we the tax payers gave to BA, was still in regular service

Shame on BA

Isn't Rod Eddington a Kiwi?

No such luck. They are coming back on B744 GCIVR, due Tuesday AM

jethro
UK and Ireland Airline Fleet Listings
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Yeah, the taxpayers gave BA Concorde. In return, BA gave the taxpayers loads of dosh. It's called a sale.

Tuesday morning you say...........

Hmmm, would it be totally unprofessional to stick them in one of the holds for a little? :}

If the French had won the World Cup, do you think they'd have done it ?

I'm not sure about the precedents for that....when Great Britain won the 1972 Rugby League World Cup, Phil Lowe drove back to Hull with the World Cup on the back seat of his car...

Carnage Matey!
 

Carnage Matey!

Don't understand your post, did BA give the us loads of dosh, if they did I heard nothing about it????:confused:

ADRH

Dunno what the French would think about it.

Carnage are you talking about the enormous sum of £1 that BA paid for Concorde? Not an enormous sum of dosh even in the '70's.

You actually take notice of what Richard Branson says? :rolleyes:

As far as i'm aware BA paid for Concorde in full. They also put millions of pounds in maintaining and flying her, not forgetting the cabin and airframe upgrades that she recieved in 2001 to make her flyable once again.

She is BA's property, live with it.

From The concorde SST website.

"In 1977, the airlines bought their initial complement of 9 aircraft for around £23 million each ($46 million US dollars). This would equate to around £200 million ($350 million) at todays prices. The 5 unsold aircraft were placed with the airlines in 1979/80 and a few years later sold, as part of a larger multi-million pound deal, for the token sum of 1 French franc and £1 each in the UK"

So I'm both right and wrong.

"The development costs of Concorde were around £1.134 billion, which was funded by the UK and French governments. The cost to build the 16 production Concordes was £654 million of which £278 million was recovered through sales returns (this included spares, technical support, etc.). This debit was also funded by the 2 governments"

So the program cost the UK and French tax payers £376M+1134M=£1.1510 billion and without it Airbus probably would have never existed. The decision to remove her from service early is a shameful one, it shows how mercenary people have become. Not a good trait in any way.

BA made a profit from Concorde overall and could have fought a bit harder and even got the government involved if they had really wanted to keep her, but they obviously didn't want Concorde and as you say they unfortunately have the right to do with them as they please. Having seen the public reaction though, it does seem to have been a serious own goal. "The world's favourite airline"?? Not any more.......:{

BA actually paid 16 odd million to balance out the books off debt. They are still paying now in terms off losses on passenger numbers the reason why Concorde isn't flying is because Airbus no longer believe Concorde as a viable profit making aircraft. No parts = Comprimised safety = No Concorde. Basically Concorde wasn't going to do any better after the hits we have taken in the aviation industry ie the Air France crash , September 11th and the pointless costly Iraq war.