Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Exclusive: Inside Company Making Ultrafast Planes" video.

  1. Why can't any of these idiotic journalists do some basic fact checking. What really hurt Concorde wasn't the technology or noise or costs - it was 9/11. This was all made clear on a documentary that a group of the pilots help make. FIRST Concorde made money, in fact for most of its life it was British Airways most profitable division. After losing buckets at first British Airways were going to cancel the entire program and the pilots challenged management that they had the ticketing wrong because the planes were MOSTLY FULL. Management challenged the pilots to run it better which they then did for more than 25 years (and profitably). The first thing they did was one of the great exercises in market research. they found they had a group of lawyers and bankers using Concorde several times a week. Those people flew across the Atlantic for sensitive document and contract signings. So they changed the ticket price to what that group believed a Concorde ticket was worth. The original pricing was based on standard subsonic flights. The tickets they were initially selling were grossly under valued. The main users of Concorde were business people for who time was very serious money. The cost of jumping on Concorde flying across the Atlantic for a quick meeting and then flying back were worth it for the type of business those people did. SECOND what really hurt Concorde was that over 50 of its top 100 users died in the Twin Towers on 9/11. THIRD what killed of Concorde wasn't the accident but Airbus who owned all the technology rights refusing to maintain Concorde so they could sell more of the normal aircraft. Don't ask for the logic on that. FOURTH Concorde was NEVER outdated because nothing else came along that was better at doing what it did AND STILL HASN'T.
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