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British Airways plans to resume Concorde passenger flights in September, it was revealed today. Air France intends to follow suit a month later, an Anglo-French Concorde working group said after ...
The logo, but not the callsign, was retired in 1984, but made a return as part of the retro BOAC livery on a BA Boeing 747. As I write, it has just landed at Heathrow from Miami as Speedbird 208 ...
LONDON -- British Airways began lining the fuel tanks of its Concorde jets with the same type of rubber used in bulletproof vests on Tuesday, in a move aimed at making the plane safe to resume ...
BOAC was, itself, formed in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways. So, while BA in its current form dates from 1974, the airline claims to have a history stretching back to ...
Estimates are that BA receives between £150m and £200m from Concorde flights, less than 2% of the £8.9bn in turnover it has each year. But even if BA can withstand the blow dealt by the loss of its ...
Darke pointed out that, unlike BA, Air France Concorde operations were not profitable. He said the situation provided the French airline with a "unique opportunity not to fly the aircraft again.
Sir Richard Branson is to ask the Government to investigate the circumstances in which British Airways took control of Concorde in the early 1980s, amid suspicion it gave false information to ...
British Airways has insisted two earlier Concorde incidents reported on by accident investigators had no bearing on July's crash of the supersonic plane in which 113 people died ...
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Lady Thatcher famously draped a handkerchief over a model plane with the world colours logo, declaring it "awful". The union colours were retained on BA's flagship, Concorde, and it was later ...
The Concorde Edition will only be available in the U.K., where it will sell at the equivalent of $413,000, or a hefty $124,000 premium over the regular Superleggera coupe's $289,000 price.