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Yes, that the French and British government had to absorb the development costs goes without saying, both it and the US SST were government funded vanity projects with questionable economics from the start. However the point is that it is possible to set up a business model where Concorde operations run at a tidy profit, despite the high fuel and other costs.If the Concorde project had delivered faster and the US SST had flown on a similar timetable to the Concorde I could see these Government vanity projects delivering maybe 25-50 Concordes and a similar or greater number of (more appropriately specc'd) US SSTs. With 100-150 SSTs built their operations would likely become normalised and many of the issues dealt with.
Yes, that the French and British government had to absorb the development costs goes without saying, both it and the US SST were government funded vanity projects with questionable economics from the start. However the point is that it is possible to set up a business model where Concorde operations run at a tidy profit, despite the high fuel and other costs.
If the Concorde project had delivered faster and the US SST had flown on a similar timetable to the Concorde I could see these Government vanity projects delivering maybe 25-50 Concordes and a similar or greater number of (more appropriately specc'd) US SSTs. With 100-150 SSTs built their operations would likely become normalised and many of the issues dealt with.
