THE SUPERSONIC BOBER HAS CHEWED ITS LAST MILE

[jason8612]

Buenos Aires, Argentina — After nearly seven years of Mach 2, 67-seat cabins, Argentine steak at 60,000 feet, wooden chewing straws, and fuel bills that Accounting has kept in a locked drawer, Bober 6-7 announces the final retirement of its Concorde.

The Supersonic Bober has completed its final commercial flight.

Yes.

This time it is actually retiring.

The story began on New Year's Eve 2005, when Bober management reviewed ten years of carefully accumulated savings and considered the sensible options:

New aircraft.
Fleet modernization.
Financial security.

Instead, we pulled a Concorde out of storage.

Because Bober is life.

After C and D checks, a completely sensible 67-seat configuration, and the disappearance of most of the company cash reserves, the aircraft returned to service in 2006.

It went on to carry Bober to New York, Los Angeles, Caracas, Bogotá, Quito, Lima and beyond — including several routes from its earlier Bober life.

For years, the 67xx flights did exactly what management promised:

Fly very fast.
Burn enormous quantities of fuel.
Serve steak and Malbec.
Confuse accountants.

And chew at the world at supersonic speed.

The aircraft has now reached the point where age, maintenance, economics, and aviation regulations have finally produced the same answer:

Enough Bober.

Our friends at Executive Express wisely reached this conclusion several years ago.

Bober required approximately 6.7 years of additional research.

The Concorde leaves behind a very different Bober 6-7 from the airline that brought it out of storage.

The old Fairchild Metros are gone. Dash-8s now handle regional flying, while the Boeing 757-200 fleet will gradually begin giving way to the new Tupolev Tu-204-300.

Because naturally, after retiring one expensive aircraft, Bober management immediately found another interesting airplane.

The future may be subsonic.

It will not be boring.

Before the final departure, management gathered around the Concorde one last time.

The pilots saluted it.
The mechanics inspected it.
The passengers photographed it.
Accounting stood at a safe distance.

Then the aircraft departed for one final supersonic Bober flight.

After landing back at EZE, the Olympus engines were shut down for the last time.

Accounting immediately reported a measurable improvement in company finances.

Management gave the Concorde the only farewell considered appropriate:

"6-7."

Thank you to every passenger, pilot, mechanic, dispatcher and travel agent who participated in one of the least financially sensible chapters in Bober history.

The Supersonic Bober may be retired.

Bober is not.

BOBER 6-7: Mach 2 is gone. 6-7 is forever.