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A third of the 450 tickets available were snapped up
within 90 minutes of going on sale at 9am today. According
to British Airways, 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.
There has been huge demand and the few seats available
are mainly for flights originating in New York.
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.
According to BA's marketing director Martin George
- more than 1,000 competition winners and special guests
would also be enjoying Concorde's last stand on her
farewell tour of the UK.
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.
Source: British Airways
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