My tribute to Concorde a remarkable aircraft. On 10 April 2003, Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced that they would retire Concorde later that year. They cited low passenger numbers following the 25 July 2000 crash, the slump in air travel following the September 11 attacks and rising maintenance costs. That same day, Sir Richard Branson offered to buy British Airways’ Concorde fleet at their “original price of £1″ for service with his Virgin Atlantic Airways. Branson claimed this to be the same token price that British Airways had paid the British Government, but BA denied this and refused the offer. The real cost of buying the aircraft was £26 million each but the money for buying the aircraft was lent by the government (which in turn took 80% of the profits). Subsequently BA bought two aircraft for a book value of £1 as part of the £16.5 million buy out in 1983.
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Simply it was a headache for other companies, as customers took away more pay … those who have not fallen from the other companies and are not off the market. And yes, I had problems of cost and other but it was enough to get him out of the market as they did using a single accident as an excuse.
y disculpen pero yo escribo en español y use un traductor de google
True. But consider its overall usefulness in comparison with, say, the DC 3 or Viscount. If all airliners fail to cover development costs there will soon be no airliners at all. We have reached an economic plateau with the 747 and Airbus etc, and modern operating conditions threaten even that.
While what you are saying is true, not many of us have ever flown on Concorde and never will.
I think it’s because the person who made the video is English and probably was only able to film English examples.
It may not have made up its development costs, but it did turn a profit for BA and AF(up until the 2000 crash). it also proved that an SST was possible.
For all its impressiveness, it never paid its development costs and in Britain alone it cost more than 100 hospitals would have. And of course the reasons why there is nothing in sight to replace it is that the figures simply don’t work. In the final analysis an airliner should make a safe profit. It did not.
normalnie pienkne! szkoda ze nie w uzyciu i w produkcji
wonderful aircraft, but if concorde was both English AND French how comes we only get pictures of the english ones??? airfrance did operate concorde as well. Your vid, as well made as it is, is half a tribute to me.
but the sr 71 can transport 100 people?
thanks for disribing yourself
@stampede122
to delay or impede. you’re still a retard. shut the fuck up, definition nazi
i bet u dont no what the TRUE meaning of retard is moron…..
as deafening as the unmistakable roar of the Concorde was, i still miss it
@stampede122
who cares? that’s a military fighter, not a commercial airliner. the record for commercial, meaning PASSENGER jets was set by the concorde. nobody cares what a military jet can do because the majority of us are never going to fly on one….retard
EXCELLENTE…QUE AVIONAZO!!!
@funkabby1 i wwould never say never just dont give them to airfrance
Only bean counters could kill off something this stunning!!!
Great video – really well done – thanks.
just tell you now the sr-71 blackbird can do the flight in just under 2 hours.
Sad to think that we were progressing to super sonic flights… now… we have made a step backwards to evolution.
This was an iconic plane!
it would be possible for an airline to have concorde in service today but that airline that would have operated concorde vould had to have unlimited with money.
Great work my friend 5*****
Too bad they retired this extraordinary aircraft. I would like to have flown on it. Great video and I loved the music too. Five star!
An EXCELLENT video and a truly remarkable aircraft.
NICE JOB PalladiumTV I LIKE YOUR VIDEOS 5 STARS…