On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:59:20 +0000, Peter
wrote:


B S D Chapman mail-at-benchapman-dot-co-dot-uk wrote:

Airbus wanted to withdraw the Type Certificate (in other words, their
support for the aircraft), without which the PTCoA could not be
maintained.

Ok, but that leads to the question as to WHY they wanted to withdraw
it.

I've got a customer who wants to buy an old obsolete product which I
discontinued years ago and which is a pig to make, so I quoted him a
high price. I didn't tell him to go away. So there is more to this
story.

That's exactly what Airbus did.
They said that they would tripple their costs from October 2003. If that
wasn't acceptable to the airlines, then they would drop their support for
the Type Certificate.

Airbus didn't want concorde on their conscience anymore. It was simply
bad press. Since the Paris accident, every engine surge and maintenance
related delay has been headline news, as if another concorde was about to
drop out of the sky. Add to that the real problem of rudder failures, and
you have Bad Press every month.

What if?

Airbus wanted to drop concorde because it was too hot to handle for them.
Sad thing is of course, that in the public eye, airbus had f**k all to do
with the project!!!

So they priced themselves out of the market.

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....And so as the little andrex puppy of time scampers onto the busy
dual-carriage way of destiny, and the extra-strong meat vindaloo of fate
confronts the toilet Out Of Order sign of eternity... I see it is time to
end this post.