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British Airways actually made money on Concorde travels.

• Alupis 6y ago
  The route schedule needs to be routine, constant and predicable to be of any use for the types of people requiring 4 hour trans-oceanic flights. That means having at least one flight to London each day, and one flight back to NY. Eventually you run out of people willing to pay $10k a seat for this type of travel. Which is what happened to Concorde - after the novelty wore off, all you had was an extremely expensive seat.
• PaulHoule 6y ago
  Who knows how to account for projects that span the inflation-addled 1970s? I think British Airways could have kept the Concorde flying longer than they did if it were not for this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590 which happened at a lower passenger*mile count than the 737 MAX accidents and would have required a Space Shuttle style shutdown-and-reform phase. Concorde's avionics and cockpit were completely out of date and fixing that would have been expensive.
• nopzor 6y ago
  they also paid a pittance for their concordes, which helped.