hads wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 10:39 am
i never understood the strategy from day 1. A huge , ugly big , expensive beast. We cant blame recessions for everything. They happen every ten years for a variety of reasons. The management would have known there was going to be numerous during its lifetime. It just wasnt a good idea and didnt sell enough units. A very costly mistake.
Although despite the disappointing sales, it did sell more than certain other airliners, the Lockheed Tristar springs to mind with around 250 sales, plenty others sold less, but somehow not being under so much scrutiny, aren't deemed to be failures. How many Concorde's made it into airline service...a dozen or so ?
And correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the A380 at least break even eventually ?
hads wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 10:39 am
i never understood the strategy from day 1. A huge , ugly big , expensive beast. We cant blame recessions for everything. They happen every ten years for a variety of reasons. The management would have known there was going to be numerous during its lifetime. It just wasnt a good idea and didnt sell enough units. A very costly mistake.
Although despite the disappointing sales, it did sell more than certain other airliners, the Lockheed Tristar springs to mind with around 250 sales, plenty others sold less, but somehow not being under so much scrutiny, aren't deemed to be failures. How many Concorde's made it into airline service...a dozen or so ?
And correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the A380 at least break even eventually ?
Indeed. Concorde was a spectacular failure. And to me, a death trap. So dangerous IMO.
I flew on an Air France A380 LHR-CDG when they were crew training before entering full service. Guess that was 12 short years ago...