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Hi Steve,

"The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c.36) is an Act of Parliament that introduces a public "right to know" in relation to public bodies."

BA is not a public body, so that takes care of that.



The "feasibility study" is a red herring the SCG loves to throw about.



There was an "Alliance" feasibility study in 2003, which had a long and hard look at the possibility of keeping some of the BA and AF Concordes flying with a kind of "core" operation, concentrating on a few of the most profitable items like charters, round-the-bay flights, Barbados, and suchlike. Several well-known names were involved, and it's been reported in the press and elsewhere.

In the end, considering the economic situation in 2003 and several other factors, it was declared not viable.



The "feasibility study" that SCG keeps carping about was that for a "heritage flight", i.e., keeping one aircraft airworthy for airshows, etc.

With even a commercial operation like the "Alliance" study already considered as not feasibile, clearly a non-revenue operation like a "heritage flight" was out, too.



Whether a formal "heritage flight feasibility study" was ever done, or whether it was just a quick "back-of-the-envelope" exercise based on the Alliance study, discussed at the top level at BA, is now of course totally irrelevant.

Such a study would have been based on the then existing infrastructure. Once that went, the study was moot.



It's only SCG that still can't understand that simple fact....



CJ