Article: British Airways, Air France to Stop Concorde Service.

By Ken Kaye, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 11--For 34 years, the needle-nose Concorde supersonic transport has been an aviation marvel and jet-set favorite, zipping the rich and adventurous across the Atlantic in three hours at twice the speed of sound.

But it has fallen victim to the same dismal economy that has deeply wounded the major airlines, and at least for now, the era of supersonic commercial travel is ending.

British Airways on Thursday announced it will stop flying its seven Concordes by the end of October. The world's only other supersonic carrier, Air France, said it would retire its five ...

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