Petition for keeping one Concorde flying

"Ali Hopkins" wrote in message
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Before you make assumptive statements like this, you might like to ask a
polite question, and avoid looking daft by making snide remarks about
people you've no knowledge of. .

I been lucky enough to make four Concorde flights.All paid for, not
business, and out of my hard earned salary.

Is that enough of a contribution for you?

The tickets you bought did not cover the cost of the flight. AFAIK Concorde
never turned a profit. With the condition the airlines are in nowdays it
would have been pretty hard to sell the stock holders on keeping them
flying.

And I'd happily stump up for a preservation fund, I've done it for
other
things; when they ask, I'll be there.

Ali


"ShawnD2112" wrote in message
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I have to say I find it interesting to hear people talk about petitions
to
keep Concorde flying. Where do people expect the money would come from?
It's interesting that people are willing to put their name on a
petition,
which requires no personal commitment or sacrifice, when all it would
have
taken to keep her flying would have been for even half of those people
to
buy tickets on her. It always amazes me how ready people are to spend
others' money.

Shawn
"Ali Hopkins" wrote in message
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"pacplyer" wrote in message
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B S D Chapman mail-at-benchapman-dot-co-dot-uk wrote in message
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The second
generation of Commet lasted many years... and 19 of those
airframes
will
be arround for another 20 years

Pardon my pickyness, but it's Comet.


Flyable? I didn't know that. Are you sure?


Nimrod.

Ali

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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"Ali Hopkins" wrote in message
...
Before you make assumptive statements like this, you might like to ask
a
polite question, and avoid looking daft by making snide remarks about
people you've no knowledge of. .

I been lucky enough to make four Concorde flights.All paid for, not
business, and out of my hard earned salary.

Is that enough of a contribution for you?

The tickets you bought did not cover the cost of the flight. AFAIK
Concorde
never turned a profit. With the condition the airlines are in nowdays it
would have been pretty hard to sell the stock holders on keeping them
flying.


You aren't in the UK, are you. If you'd seen the public outcry in this
country and the folks who turned out to see her land for the last time - and
all the subsequent departures - I think you might consider the weight of
public opinion as an influence on what we here call share holders. And Air
France, of course, is a whole other ball game from BA in terms of
ownership. BA never gave either the share holders or anyone else any say in
the matter; it would have been rather interesting to hear what the real BA
stakeholders had to say about it, given that the Big Bird was the BA
corporate symbol. Indeed, the entrance to LHR is guarded by a rather large
and obvious Concorde replica. And then, there's the wider "ownership";
Concorde was paid for by *us*, the British people, unlike your average civil
airliner. She is viewed in a unique way.

And yes, I am well aware that my tickets did not cover the cost of the
flight; mind you, the same can be said for many other flights of the
several hundreds I've made. I was replying to the inane point made by some
other bloke about people whinging but not being prepared to fly on her. Your
point is not a logical inference to be drawn from either the OP or my
response to the OP, it seems to be answering some other issue.

Ali

In message , Ali Hopkins
writes

You aren't in the UK, are you. If you'd seen the public outcry in this
country

I'm in the UK; I saw no such "outcry".

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Andy Mabbett
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Dave Stadt wrote:

The tickets you bought did not cover the cost of the flight. AFAIK
Concorde never turned a profit. With the condition the airlines are
in nowdays it would have been pretty hard to sell the stock holders
on keeping them flying.

BA's Concorde fleet made an *operating* profit.

Although this operating profit never covered the full development costs,
the taxpayer (the British one, at least) is better off than if the
aeroplanes had simply been scrapped when the oil "crisis" hit in the
early 70s.