Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is possibly the development costs which they were talking about, but I don't think it ever made a profit - maybe the information you read is true and that which I read is not but I think not. If they were making a handsome profit why did they stop? All the information I heard was that Air France never made any money flying it and BA only on the New York route. Frank On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 11:40 pm, Marc James Small wrote: > At 08:11 AM 12/29/03 +0000, Frank Dernie wrote: >> I read over Christmas that each Concorde passenger was subsidised by >> £3,300 by the British taxpayer - maybe just as well it was stopped, >> beautiful though it is! > > Well, figures don't lie but liars figure. The Concorde long ago > repaid the > purchase cost and was making a handsome profit off of its passengers. > BUT > that only occurred because the British and French governments absorbed > the > development costs for the craft. > > Marc > > msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html