Concorde leaves London today for new home in Barbados

British Airways Concorde

Monday, November 17, 2003

LONDON, England: The penultimate Concorde flight will take off from Heathrow bound for Barbados today with 70 invited British Airways staff on board.

The supersonic plane, which regularly flew on the London-Barbados route, is being delivered to its new permanent home at Grantley Adams airport.

The last flight Concorde will make will be on November 26 when Concorde chief pilot Mike Bannister takes the plane from Heathrow, via the Bay of Biscay, to Filton in Bristol, where the aircraft was made and where the last plane to be flown will be housed.

The Filton flight, following the Barbados one, will mean that five of BA's seven Concordes will have been flown to their new homes. The other homes to which the supersonic planes have been taken are the US cities of Seattle and New York and Manchester Airport.

The two remaining BA Concordes have not flown since the Air France Concorde crash in July 2000, which claimed 113 lives.

One of these will remain at Heathrow and will probably go on show at the airport's Terminal 5 when it is completed. The other will be taken either by road or by barge to the Scotland Museum of Flight in Edinburgh.

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