Apparently there are some parts that are no longer available, and to make the tooling to create those parts would be prohibabtively expensive.

Branson would also have to pay BA a massive amount of money to maintain the planes as they are the only ones who know how to do it, and they have all the equipment, hangers, etc.

All the Air France ones have been dismantled and put in museums IIRC.

Very sad
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