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To: Olog-hai

The Concorde took less than 3½ hours and seated a maximum of 128 passengers.

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And it was never economically viable.


7 posted on 12/05/2017 10:11:30 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Moonman62

Concorde economics didn’t work for a whole host of reasons.

They were maintenance monsters, that required almost 4 hour turn times, meaning only one out-back trip a day was possible.

They were wildly expensive to operate because they were as much a POLITICAL development as a tech one, and they were never available in numbers that would drive down costs.

Etc,etc.


14 posted on 12/05/2017 10:19:11 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Moonman62

Most likely due to regulatory culture on both sides of the Atlantic. Not enough of them flying and a premium fare too. Not to mention, JAL could have given the Concorde a boost if they had invested in them; would have really helped their trans-Pacific business back in the day.

There was an article posted here two years ago predicting a “Concorde II” that would cross the Atlantic in about an hour.


15 posted on 12/05/2017 10:21:24 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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