Interesting to hear suggestions it was a French conspiracy to end the Concorde service life, Air France and Airbus in cahoots. British Airways had just about managed to make her profitable and didn't want to retire her. She could well have been flying to around 2015-18. Unfortunately, Air France were pretty shit at marketing her for the engineering marvel she was, coupled with the tragic crash, meant they'd convinced Airbus to withdraw technical support in early 2003 and so they ceased commercial services on 31 May 2003. British Airways CEO Rod Eddington (served CEO of BA 2000-2005) was fond of Concorde and wanted to keep them going as long as possible, unfortunately, this was only a few months with BA Concordes services ending on 24 October.
That is absolutely wild inside. I don't know how anyone makes sense of it all.
Interesting to hear suggestions it was a French conspiracy to end the Concorde service life, Air France and Airbus in cahoots. British Airways had just about managed to make her profitable and didn't want to retire her. She could well have been flying to around 2015-18. Unfortunately, Air France were pretty shit at marketing her for the engineering marvel she was, coupled with the tragic crash, meant they'd convinced Airbus to withdraw technical support in early 2003 and so they ceased commercial services on 31 May 2003.
British Airways CEO Rod Eddington (served CEO of BA 2000-2005) was fond of Concorde and wanted to keep them going as long as possible, unfortunately, this was only a few months with BA Concordes services ending on 24 October.