Business Traveller celebrates a bygone era of travel. This month: Concorde
Concorde was a civilian plane with a military machine’s performance. Its 100 passengers sampled the finest service 60,000 feet aloft at Mach 2. You could leave Paris at lunchtime and reach Rio de Janeiro in time for tea. Or sample breakfast in New York and dinner in London.
With Concorde’s demise, aviation went backwards. Flying became slower, not faster. Without the “halo effect” of operating it, Air France and British Airways lost their USP.
Alex McWhirter
Images courtesy of British Airways
