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That's not what happened. People stopped using Concorde and started using the new comforts of business class on larger albeit slower planes. The per seat fuel
by 1ba9115454 10y ago
That's not what happened.
People stopped using Concorde and started using the new comforts of business class on larger albeit slower planes.
The per seat fuel consumption is perhaps optimistic on their part.
- markonen 10y agoThe last Concorde airframe rolled off the factory floor in 1979. It never competed with lie-flat business class seats, and it's not possible to paint the failure as passengers having voted for slower but more comfortable options. The ban on overland supersonic flights simply made Concorde a non-starter. The comfort onboard Concorde was fine. I miss it each and every time I fly transatlantic. But with British Airways and Air France allotted just seven aircraft each, obviously it could never be a mainstream product, no matter how compelling it was from a passenger perspective.