The ultimnate insult to Concord

TomZ · September 28, 2019, 10:35:59 AM

EasyJet Concord

When in 1999 the Supersonic Airbus A-900 airliner started getting into airline service a lot of airlines put their Concords on the market and switched to the more economic A-900. This meant that the Concords were relatively cheap.

The EasyJet company bought 12 of them in a bid to open a low fare connection between London and New York. EasyJet operated the Concord for 5 years but the operating cost of the aircraft proved too high to make the venture profitable. In 2005 the last EasyJet Concord flight was made.

TomZ

ericr · September 28, 2019, 12:07:42 PM

zenrat · September 29, 2019, 04:45:44 AM

You're right, it is an insult.

Quality work though.

perttime · September 29, 2019, 05:40:59 AM

And to top it off, they called it Concord, instead of Concorde.

chrisonord · September 29, 2019, 05:41:39 AM

Haha, marvellous

Chris

NARSES2 · September 29, 2019, 05:58:25 AM

Quote from: zenrat on September 29, 2019, 04:45:44 AM
You're right, it is an insult.

I'm just wondering where Stavros was flying his customers to in them ? He could probably have got the finances to work as well

Really nice work Tom

Tophe · September 29, 2019, 07:37:19 AM

low-cost Concorde seems so contradictory and that makes us smile, thanks!

The Rat · September 29, 2019, 09:22:05 AM

kerick · September 29, 2019, 09:31:46 AM

In the US it could be Spirit Airlines or Frontier.

scooter · September 29, 2019, 10:56:25 AM

Quote from: kerick on September 29, 2019, 09:31:46 AM
In the US it could be Spirit Airlines or Frontier.

Definitely Spirit. And equipped with coach seats courtesy of Aeroflot

TheChronicOne · September 29, 2019, 11:00:30 AM

Hahah! Very nice, I love it!

PR19_Kit · September 29, 2019, 12:44:45 PM

There was a guy at the St Ives show today who had models of Concordes in almost all possible variants and schemes, I including an Air France one done in the 'Pepsi' scheme, which only lasted a month or two, and very good they looked. A most impressive aeroplane, no matter how much it cost!

TheChronicOne · September 29, 2019, 01:12:29 PM

Speaking of, I saw pictures of a whole mess of your builds on the FB earlier.

PR19_Kit · September 29, 2019, 01:19:15 PM

Quote from: TheChronicOne on September 29, 2019, 01:12:29 PM

Speaking of, I saw pictures of a whole mess of your builds on the FB earlier.

Who, me? $:-\$

I'm not on FB at all, so how did they get there?

TheChronicOne · September 29, 2019, 02:35:36 PM

No conspiracy, lots of people take pictures at model show and post them on the internet.

Meet anyone named Trevor recently?

I'd give a link but the group is private. It's the "What if Modellers" group. Well, I'll give the link anyway:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/978290505610658/

I saw the utmost, most glorious..... the Raspberry Ripple ... (I forget name) that I love so much:

If you ever decide you don't want that one.... I have some hangar space.

Sorry, Tom!