Concorde and Iraq

[Sharp-kun]

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Demand for Concorde to fly again

A 20,000-name petition urging the government to get Concorde flying again a year after its last commercial flight has been handed to Downing Street.

Thirty members of the Save Concorde Group protested with banners and placards outside Number 10.

Chairman Ross Mallet said: "We are not talking about passenger flights just now but six times a year at air shows."

The signatures were collected at air shows and over the internet from fans as far away as Australia and Peru.

The July 2000 Paris crash, the September 11 tragedy and the Iraq war all helped to make Concorde an uneconomical proposition.

The supersonic bird took its last commercial journey on October 23, 2003, 28 years after it first took off.

Mr Mallet, 37, from Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, set up the group last year feeling cheated at never having had the chance to fly on her.

Maybe I'm missing something but how did Iraq affect Concorde? Never heard that one before. Paris and 9/11 are obvious, but I can't see how Iraq would have had a big impact.

[BoredShirtless]

Maybe I'm missing something but how did Iraq affect Concorde?

International flights probably dropped because people were scared Al Qaeda was going to target planes in revenge. What, didn't you know that Iraq has ties to Al Qaeda?

[Stormbringer]

Maybe I'm missing something but how did Iraq affect Concorde? Never heard that one before. Paris and 9/11 are obvious, but I can't see how Iraq would have had a big impact.

You're a Brit so you might be used to high fuel prices, but thanks to Iraq and the general unrest in the Middle East now fuel prices have gone through the roof. With the Concorde taking the equivalent of premium, and a shit load of it, the whole thing just made it unprofitable as hell to run it. A supersonic transport is a real fuel hog, one reason why most large, long range aircraft are distinctly subsonic. They were always kept around more for prestige rather financial viability.

[Wicked Pilot]

Money buys jet fuel, not signatures.