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Old Sep 19, 2017 | 12:10 pm
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Originally Posted by RangerNS
But consider that the Concorde died not because it was impossible to make parts, but because it wasn't cost effective to have a team of 50 engineers designing parts for a 14 A/C fleet.
That's not why Concorde was withdrawn. According to some reasonably high up people in BA, Sept 11 was the reason - approximately half of their regular Concorde customers died that day, and after that it wasn't economically viable anymore when combined with the economic downturn after 9/11. It was a lack of regular customers that spelled the end of Concorde.
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