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Concorde happened. The market didn't sustain it.

• brc 13y ago
  I'm not going to defend the Concorde business model, but the ban on cross country flights due to noise made it impossible. I mentioned this in irony to a colleague recently as a maintenance guy blasted leaves outside with a leaf blower. I still think Concorde could have been made to work in the end if it had been improved over time.
• yardie 13y ago
  Concorde was sustainable. Almost everyone of them left the ground full. But these were planes built in the 70s. The rest of AF and BA fleet are fairly new withe oldest being from the mid 90s. The planes were getting more expensive to maintain and there was nothing coming to replace them.