Concorde tickets selling fast

13 April 2012

Tickets for Concorde's farewell week in the skies were selling fast today.

A third of the 450 tickets available were snapped up within 90 minutes of going on sale at 9am today.

Flights between London and New York were quickly sold out for both October 22 and 23 and only a few tickets were left unsold for October 18-21, British Airways said.

"There has been huge demand and the few seats available are mainly for flights originating in New York," said a spokeswoman for the airline.

BA plans to carry up to 2,000 travellers between October 18 and 24 in a bid to set a new seven-day record before Concorde's 27-year passenger-carrying history comes to an end.

Twenty flights will cross the Atlantic during its last week before the final commercial flight, BA001 to New York's John F Kennedy airport, takes off from Heathrow on Thursday, October 23.

A final VIP flight will leave New York for London on October 24.

BA's marketing director Martin George said more than 1,000 competition winners and special guests would also be enjoying Concorde's last stand on her farewell tour of the UK.

He added: "People have been calling us all summer about buying a seat for the final week and we are delighted that we can now begin offering them to those people on our waiting lists and several hundred other customers.

The UK tour will see Concorde visit Birmingham, Belfast, Manchester, Cardiff and Edinburgh before culminating in a series of three supersonic flights from New York, Edinburgh and round the Bay of Biscay on her final day.

The fares, for travel between London and New York, cost the standard £4,350 one-way Concorde ticket returning on BA' subsonic World Traveller class, and up to £8,292 for a return trip, both ways, on Concorde.

Customers can book by calling British Airways on 0870 850 9850 or by visiting www.ba.com.

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