Paul Weaver wrote in message ...
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:17:18 +0000, Richard J. wrote:
probably because there doesn't seem to be an ongoing demand from passengers.

Many frequent flyers died on September 11th

Basically, Concorde is an outstandingly beautiful plane and an amazing
phenomenon, but as a commercial aircraft it is a disaster. It was

Hence it should be kept for diplomatic missions

I agree it would be great to see Concorde continuing to fly the UK
representatives to all the trade fairs, conferences (not the
environmental ones though!), summits, Olympics, Royal occasions etc.
If only BA or Virgin or Airbus or a museum (or all of them) could
agree sponsorship of the maintenance costs. But to throw more public
money at it now, for largely sentimental reasons, would be daft.