
I'm Mr Angry about this. The British taxpayer paid for those aircraft and it's pretty obvious that the majority of British taxpayers want to see them flying if it's at all possible.
Now I'm no special fan of Mr Branson, but if he wasn't just doing a publicity stunt and he genuinely was making an offer to TRY to keep them flying, the British taxpayer should INSIST that he's given the chance no matter what British Airways wants to do with the planes.
Sending them off to a**-hole parts of the world where they will just sit and rot I would have thought was NOT part of the deal broached on behalf of the British taxpayer when they were originally handed over to BA.
I see the first one was flown off to Manchester today where it will be ripped apart by bl**dy engineering students for cripes sake!