Absolutely criminal - Airbus w@nkers......
Thats a bit harsh since it wasn't their decision to gound it.
Perhaps but it had been on the cards for years with double digit percentage increases in spare parts and support costs by airbus, to maintain the type certificate I understand they were planning on going from 12 million euros to 40 million euros in the year it got grounded.
Its like me charging you £5 a litre for V Power because I dont want to support Petrol Engines anymore, you can still spend it if you want to spend £600 filling your car up twice a week - not good if you run a petrol engined taxi firm.
BA were also bribed into some cheap A320's to replace the original non wingletted A320 Hour fleet leaders they had if they ditched concorde
Wheels within wheels, the fact that its a huge global industry shouldn't mean that 5 perfectly serviceable 35 year old cutting edge aircraft get scrapped at the behest of airbus, a very sad day.
Whats more criminal is that the "museums" are not looking after them very well, the one in New York had its nose mashed in by a delivery truck recently.
The one at Le Bourget at the Air and Space Museum is nearest airworthy and they plan to start the engines and hopefully fast taxi it soon.
We'll never have a concorde XH558
Apologies if you work for Airbus!
