Now I would say which FT'er is this, but to dole out £20K on Concorde tickets, he must not be one. Otherwise he would have bought 200 subscriptions to InsideFlyer instead:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html
CONNED CORDE
By Jeremy Armstrong
A LYING dole cheat was caught after boasting to investigators that he blew £20,000 on Concorde's last flight and a holiday in the US.
Malcolm Bingley, 60, pocketed £5,400 in jobseekers' allowance over two years claiming he had no savings. But the layabout had a £75,000 inheritance.
Determined to fulfil his dream of flying by Concorde he splashed out £8,560 on a return ticket to New York, £1,680 on a 10-day holiday in the Big Apple and £10,000 on spending money.
The flat-capped Northerner, who has not worked for 17 years, sipped champagne and dined on French cuisine as he flew at twice the speed of sound.