The inside story of how BA made more than £500m profit from Concorde

After six years of losses on the aircraft, Jock Lowe - the former director of operations at British Airways - explains to Key.Aero how he turned around the supersonic airliner’s financial fortunes 

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Concorde was a complex and expensive aircraft to operate. It would use two tonnes of fuel just getting from the gate to the runway.  

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