David Cartwright wrote:
It's expensive to run, it's as noisy as hell, ...
And the feeling of a tight turn-out with the burners on at the end of a
"clean" pass down the display line at Duxford in Alpha Fox is not
something one forgets in a hurry - it's the thick end of twenty years
ago now.
... and in the current climate of dwindling ticket sales, I don't
think BA really had a lot of choice but to withdraw it.
Unfortunately, I dare say you are right.
That said, the timing of the final flights could, IMNSHO, barely have
been worse:
why, oh why, didn't they keep two (or four, to allow for backups)
airworthy for another three or four weeks?
Surely it would have been fitting to bow out with final flypasts at
Kitty Hawk and Runnymede (the latter preferably in the company of the
BBMF and the Red Arrows in "Concorde" formation) on December 17th.
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