Retirement The Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde was finally retired from commercial service last week after more than 27 years of operations for Air France and British Airways. Three BA Concordes touched down at Heathrow on Friday afternoon to complete a week of "farewell" flights to UK capital cities as well as the final transatlantic crossing from New York's Kennedy airport. Even as the last flights landed, however, Virgin Group chairman Sir Richard Branson continued to discuss potential future operation of the aircraft by Virgin Atlantic Airways.
Source: Flight International
