Once upon a time -- around about 10/22/03 09:37 --
possibly wrote:

"Richard J." wrote in message
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CMOT TMPV wrote:
Once upon a time -- around about 10/19/03 16:07 --
possibly wrote:


So when is the final flight from or to London? And where do I stand?
Final arrival is 24 Oct forever. Three Concordes will arrive 90
seconds apart, taxi to the maintenance bay for a special retirement
ceremony. See concordesst.com

Those flights (BA9010, BA9021, BA002) will land on the northern runway
(09L/27R, direction depends on the wind) probably around 16:00 on the 24th.


Final flight *from* London is provisionally scheduled to be 17 November,
when G-BOAF is flown to Filton, her place of birth. Details at
http://www.concordesst.com/retire/diary.html

This final flight will probably be delayed now because BA wont be
officially announcing the final retirement places for Concorde until
next week at the earliest.

Apparently there's some contractual problem with one of the locations
and they want to sort that out first before they announce any of the
sites. Airbus (who will officially be the company given the
Bristol-Filton Concorde as it's their bit of land she'll be put on)
are a bit peeved though as they'd already started planning a big
welcome home party for her on that date.
**** on Airbus. They're all ****. If it wasn't for them Concorde could still
be flying. The ultimate reason is that they don't want to make parts. AF was
out regardless, but BA maintains that were Airbus to produce parts and
support the aircraft, Concorde will still be flying.

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