The 100 passengers who boarded Air France flight 4590 from Paris Charles de Gaulle to New York JFK on the afternoon of 25 July 2000 believed they were in for the trip of a lifetime. The German cruise ...

For a fleeting 30 years during the 20th century, supersonic commercial air travel was a reality. But on October 24, 2003, that era came to an abrupt end. That day, British Airways operated its last ...

The author and the two Concordes in Paris's Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.Pete Syme/BI Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of ...

WASHINGTON -- British Airways and Air France, citing an increase in maintenance costs and a decrease in passengers, are retiring the world's only supersonic passenger aircraft after nearly three ...

PONTOISE, France (Reuters) - Continental Airlines and five men went on trial on Tuesday for their alleged role in the crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people in 2000 and brought an end ...

On the morning of January 21, 1976, two Concordes — one each from British Airways and Air France — took off simultaneously on what would be the aircraft's first commercial supersonic flights with fare ...

As 25 July marks the 20-year anniversary of Concorde’s fatal crash, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the famed supersonic jet. November 1956 The Supersonic Transport Aircraft ...

Model Christie Brinkley shares a drink on the Concorde's final flight from New York's JFK to London's Heathrow Airport. Getty Images It should come as no surprise that the Concorde had to have a ...

Air France commemorates this week the most extraordinary flying dream of the human mankind : Concorde. While British Airways keeps so far a low profile in celebrating… On 21 January 1976, Air France ...