Can European law help?
The decisions by Air France and British Airways to abandon Concorde in favour of their lumbering widebody jets must be the most retrograde step in aviation history. Wind the clock back to the 1950s: can you imagine BOAC dumping the Comet in favour of the Stratocruiser? Neither can I.
There is something about the Concorde decision that doesn't add up. On one hand, the airlines claim that the aircraft are uneconomic and costly to run; on the other, they refuse to sell them to Virgin Airways because they will lose their business passengers. There must surely be a European Union law somewhere which says that the airlines can't refuse to pass their Concordes on to a third party.
Source: Flight International
