Final Concorde Flight Lands at Heathrow

By Jill Lawless
Associated Press Writer
Friday, October 24, 2003; 11:14 AM


LONDON –– Three Concordes swooped into Heathrow Airport Friday, joining in a spectacular finale to the era of luxury supersonic jet travel.

The last regular passenger flight from New York arrived with every seat filled, a feat that had become increasingly rare for a plane that was a technological marvel but a commercial flop.

Flight 002 landed just past 4 p.m., minutes after two other British Airways Concordes. One flew from Edinburgh, Scotland, carrying winners of a competition, and the other had taken off from Heathrow an hour and a half earlier and carried invited guests on a loop over the Bay of Biscay.

Thousands of enthusiasts gathered at Heathrow to watch the landings, but not everyone loved the Concorde. Over the years, many criticized its enormous roar and almost everyone found its fares of $9,000 and up for a trans-Atlantic round-trip too high.

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Yup, I hate it.

In this case old technology and inferior performance wins. It's due to economic viability.

Fuel costs mean they have to charge those outrageous fares to keep flying, and it's getting hard to find 100 people at a time willing to drop $9000 to cross the pond at supersonic speed.

It's a shame, the forseeable future is in making the cattle cars even larger....not faster.

Those that know me , know I had only two ways to cross the Atlantic , as I don't like flying.

1.) QE2
2.) Concorde

I never counted Concorde as flying. No lines , VIP treatment and no turbulence :-))

My wife and kids and I had been back and forth on it 6 times.

It was awesome :-))))

Drinking champagne and watching the airspeed indicator on the wall rise :)



Last edited by Nickatilynx at Oct 24 2003, 09:13 PM

i was lucky enough to fly round trip london on the concorde in 89

after flying first clas to europe on other carriers the concorde blew them all away

even with the smaller cabin and seats

3 hours ny to london

I went for the weekend

was a blast