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The last supersonic commercial flight occurred with the Concorde’s final journey in November 2003. ... British Airways Aerospatiale BAC Concorde on final-approach. ... Due to the deafening noise
There had been little commercial pressure to upgrade Concorde due to its low flight cycles, a lack of competing aircraft and the fact that the aircraft remained sustainably profitable in its current configuration. By its retirement, it was the last aircraft in the British Airways fleet that had a flight engineer. [77]
[N 1] Concorde's pilots and British Airways in official publications often refer to Concorde both in the singular and plural as "she" or "her". [207] In 2006, 37 years after its first test flight, Concorde was announced the winner of the Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC (through The Culture Show) and the Design Museum.
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2008 (February): British Airways announces plans for London City-New York JFK flight using a small subsonic aircraft, the A318. It is nicknamed “son of Concorde”. It is nicknamed “son of ...
It made Concorde's final flight on Wednesday 26 November 2003. Departing from Heathrow at 11:30 GMT , it made a last, brief, supersonic flight, carrying 100 BA staff, over the Bay of Biscay. It then flew a "lap of honour" above Bristol , passing over Portishead , Clevedon , Weston-super-Mare , Bristol Airport and Clifton Suspension Bridge ...
Cancellations come ahead of a planned 10-day walkout by security staff at Heathrow British Airways cancels 50 flights due to French air traffic control strikes Skip to main content
A flight delay occurs when an airline flight takes off and/or lands later than its scheduled time. The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) considers a flight to be delayed when it is 15 minutes later than its scheduled time. A flight cancellation occurs when the airline does not operate the flight at all for a certain reason.