LAST CONCORDE 10232003 Final Revenue Flight LHR-JFK G-BOAG

Schedule: Depart LHR 6:30 pm Arrive JFK 5:30 pm. We arrived before we departed. This is the last BA001 for fare-paying customers. The return flight on 10242003 was invitation only. More... Comments are now moderated. If you want your comment to appear use proper grammar and punctuation and include equal parts maturity and insightfulness. Idiotic childish comments and those with poor grammar and punctuation will not make the cut. Heres another trip exactly four months earlier: Please subscribe. Thank you. 10232003 starts at about 19:15 Article Some users have commented that it looks small crowded etc. I can attest that the seats are perfectly comfortable. Also I had plenty of legroom which is not typically the case. I didnt feel crowded for a moment. I wanted to ride Concorde ever since I saw one at EAA in August 1988. The accident in 2000 made me think I had missed my chance. But then Concorde was fitted with Kevlar fuel tank liners and they began flying again. Spring 2003 Airbus announced they would be withdrawing support for the aircraft which meant it could no longer fly. AIr France shut things down as fast as they could because they were losing big on Concorde. BA decided to send it off in style. They offered discounted fares and filled more or less every seat for the final 6 months or so. I have a history of being present for funeral runs. I wanted to get on the last flight. But at the time of the discontinuance announcement BA could not tell me when the last flight would be. So I settled for 62303 and rode then. There is a video of that trip on YouTube. After the trip the local paper did a travel section story about my trip. A few weeks after my trip BA announced the final flights: the last trip for paying passengers would be 102303 - exactly 4 months after my first flight and last trip with passengers invited would be 102403. I immediately called BA to book a trip on the last flight for paying passengers but the flight was full. I got on the waiting list. My position: number 100! Since capacity of plane was 100 that meant the entire plane would have to turn over before Id get a seat. Not likely. I sent a letter to BAs CEO along with the newspaper story about my trip. I mentioned that I was hoping to be on the final trip and I offered to do my best to get BA more favorable press if I was able to ride. In late August I got a call from BA reservations. They said Id cleared the wait list and I needed to decide if I wanted a ticket right then at full fare 7500. That was a very stressful moment. But I knew I had to do it so I whipped out my credit card and bought my ticket. My initial seat assignment was in steerage behind the bathrooms. But I managed to get a front cabin seat assignment at the last minute - while waiting in the departure lounge. Heres another users video of the takeoff. Its kind of odd to look at that and I know I was on it. ,

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