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Old May 17, 2003 | 10:28 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by avek00:
Among other things, the operating costs of SSC do not allow for an elastic fare structure; the plane simply does not make money unless it is full of customers who have paid $10K+. </font>
This is actually incorrect as I was told by a BA employee that as long as each flight has 35 full fare passengers then it is in profit, so even though the BBC and other press like to say 'Concorde is running with less than half full loads and this is terrible for the airline' BA are actually running it on a profit
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