Blake Scholl

It was not practical the way it was done then.

27 years?

Yeah, shut down in 2003, really with no plan to replace it.

So the proximal cause was it was just too expensive.

At this point, the successor entity of the companies that had made it was Airbus.

And the market was tiny.

It had always been tiny for Concorde.

And they were having to make spare parts and whatnot.

And Air France wasn't making any money.

flying it.

And so the story I've heard is that Air France and Airbus kind of got together and said, let's just stop doing spare parts for this.

And then the British will have to stop flying it too, and it'll force the whole fleet down.

So that happened.

I don't know if the conspiracy theory is exactly true, but I think the reality was it died.

It was stillborn.

This was an airplane with 100 seats on it.

Mind you, 100 uncomfortable seats.

Like you could think they were out of back of Ryanair or something.

Not a comfortable airplane, $20,000 ticket, 100 seats to fill.

That just doesn't work.