I feel that the Concorde losing their airworthiness is unfair. Does anyone agree?

What do you mean "Air France screwed it up"?

If you think that this has anything to do with the crash, bear in bind that the remaining Concorde were returned to service after that accident.

However, the airframes were getting near their design life, spares were getting scarce and costly (a few Concordes were put in storage to serve as spare part bins to maintain the others, this cannot last for ever...) and each flight was a drain on the airline finance, getting worse with any increase in the price of oil.

Returning them to service would require showing availability of enough spares, which are no longer made, and training of maintenance personnel.

Economics killed it. If you think this is unfair, would you have been a volunteer to pay for it?

Every commercial aircraft has a limited lifespan. The reason is due to stress fatigue on the the pressure vessel. Every time a plane is pressurized it stretches skin of the plane. When it is depressurized, it doesn't go all the way back to it original size. Like blowing up a balloon over and over. Eventually the skin of the plane gets stress cracks and will fail. Like Aloha flight 243 where the top of the cabin came off. The Concorde was already nearing the end of its useful life when the AirFrance crash happened. It was due to be grounded within a year or two anyway. At that point it wasn't worth the money to make the safety modifications to an already old and non cost effective design.

Hi,

the real reason the Concorde stop flying was that it was too expensive to run, not that it wasn't reliable. Even if you don't count the cost of maintenance, the Concorde was loss making. Airlines kept it mainly for marketing and political reasons (Air France and British Airways). Remember that both the French and British participated in its design. Unfortunately, Europeans unlike Americans do not take enough into account the profitability of a project. Americans opted for the dreamliner while the Europeans (Airbus) opted for the A380. Which one is more profitable? I tend to believe that again the Americans made the right decision (remember that the US never build a supersonic jetliner).

Shelley

If it were up to me, I'd put the Boeing 314, Douglas DC-3 and Lockheed Constellation back in worldwide operation, but times and technologies have changed. Like those fabulous airplanes, the SST is a technological dinosaur. The main problem with it, and any supersonic aircraft, it that the fuel flow is measures in tons (tonnes) per hour, per engine. It doesn't take a genius to understand the implications of that.

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A beautiful aircraft, I agree, but my answer No. Too old. Too expensive to modernize. Horribly Inefficient. Exceeds all modern noise standards on takeoff, further limiting where it would be allowed to fly, and most important, special ground facilities and maintenance equipment no longer exist for it, it would be unable to make a profit.

utter nonsense.

the statistic i've read is that a concorde used more fuel taxiing from the terminal to the threshold at hearthrow than a 737 uses flying to amsterdam. ouch!

airplanes have a finite service life. the concordes are all old, with a very high number of cycles. they would have to be retired at some point anyway, whether they were making money or not.

your opinion is irrelevant because you clearly don't have a clue. please get one.

Concorde lost money every day it operated. It was a bad business plan that needed to be shelved.

Get over it, it was ten years ago. Go back in time, take a skillion dollars with you, and keep the aircraft flying. The program was a money pit.

I feel you should educate yourself a bit more on the subject.

It was not economically feasible with today's fuel prices, and it didn't have a perfect safety record, one crashed in Paris a couple years before they retired.