To: Squawk 8888
The concorde paid off on only two routes - NY / London and NY/Paris.
On 9/11 most of it’s customers literaly died and then so did the concept.
(It had no reach for anything other and couldn’t be used over land because of the noise a plane makes if supersonic)
49 posted on
10/30/2007 8:20:52 AM PDT by
Rummenigge
(there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
To: Rummenigge
The Concorde failed because cutting down travel time from 7 to 4 hours doesn’t mean much when you take into account the difference in time zones.
50 posted on
10/30/2007 8:24:58 AM PDT by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: Rummenigge
I wonder how al Qaeda views the A320?
51 posted on
10/30/2007 8:25:23 AM PDT by
Loud Mime
(Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not)
To: Rummenigge
The concorde paid off on only two routes - NY / London and NY/Paris. Not true. It paid off on no routes. The aircraft were given to the airlines by the UK and France. Your point is that the Concorde was able to take in something more than operating costs, once overhead was paid for by the state.
82 posted on
10/30/2007 12:35:23 PM PDT by
SampleMan
(Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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