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Concorde enters service with Air France and British Airways

Name: Concorde enters service with Air France and British Airways
Start: 1976-01-21

January 21, 1976

On 21 January 1976 Concorde began scheduled flights simultaneously with Air France from Paris-Roissy and British Airways from London Heathrow. It was the start of the only sustained supersonic airline service in Western aviation history, almost seven years after the prototype's first flight.

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Concorde enters service with Air France and British Airways — G BOAD Concorde (Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum)Jorge Láscar from Australia (CC BY), vía commons

Sources: AirDataNews — Fifty years ago, Concorde inaugurated the era of commercial supersonic flight