What was the price of a ticket on the Concorde?

What was the price of a ticket on the Concorde?

For an average round-trip, across-the-ocean ticket price of about $12,000, Concorde shuttled its upper-crust passengers over the Atlantic in about three hours: an airborne assemblage of wealth, power, and celebrity hurtling along at breakneck speed.

Why is the Concorde no longer used?

Why was Concorde retired? Air France and British Airways blamed low passenger numbers and rising maintenance costs. Passenger numbers fell after an Air France Concorde crashed minutes after taking off from Paris in July 2000, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground.

Do Concordes still fly?

The Concorde was an iconic supersonic plane that entered service in 1976 and was retired 27 years later in 2003. ... The Concorde demonstrated that the commercial market was not yet ready for an aircraft with higher operating costs when the aviation industry competes on high performance at the lowest cost.

How long did it take to fly on the Concorde?

Concorde's fastest transatlantic crossing was on 7 February 1996 when it completed the New York to London flight in 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds....About Concorde.

Concorde facts
Capacity	100 passengers and 2.5 tonnes of cargo
Flight crew	Two pilots, one flight engineer
Cabin crew	Six

How many Concorde planes are left?

Today, France is home to six Concordes. Half of them are former prototype or development aircraft, while the other half is Air France production models.

How many Concorde are left?

British Airways own 7 Concordes and Air France now have 5. Of the other two production aircraft which were owned by Air France, one was withdrawn from service and used for spare parts from 1982 onward, and the other crashed in 2000. In 2003 the aircraft were put on show around the world.

Is Concorde faster than a bullet?

Concorde, which stopped flying in 2003, flew at twice the speed of sound, faster than a rifle bullet, and halved the time of transatlantic crossings.

How much does it cost to go on Concorde?

• If you wanted to do the round trip entirely on Concorde, the fare rose to $6,999. USD. Both were a big discount from the standard fare which wa normally around $6000 one way and over $10,500 round trip. I did the lowest offer naturally but even one way on Concorde was a wonderful experience.

What was the price of a Concorde ticket in 1980?

• Prices in 1980 were quite different to prices in 2000... It depends when, by OCT 2003 the standard price was £4,000 one way, allthough there were deals that could be done, a consuer tv show here in the Uk showed how people were paying much less by booking there Concorde trip as part of a longer sector connecting through LHR .

How much did it cost to fly Concorde from London to New York?

• The supersonic airliner, with four afterburner turbojets, would burn 19,519 US gallons of fuel, costing airline just $ 2,7 from London to New York. When calculated at current fuel price, the amount comes to about $ 39,000 one-way and $ 78,000 for the round trip.

How did I get a ticket on the Concorde?

• BA would occasionally place free concorde tickets in the give aways at some of the Interline Parties that used to be held for airline employees. My name got drawn for a set, and that is how I got to go on the Concorde.