Concorde set to bow out in style

Concorde will bow out in style tomorrow with celebrity guests enjoying a champagne breakfast on board the supersonic passenger plane’s last flight.

A privileged 100 will be on the final British Airways flight from New York to Heathrow airport.

Tucking into smoked salmon and caviar as well as lobster fishcakes, the guests will also have the chance to sample a 1986 Pol Roger Cuvee champagne named after Winston Churchill.

The last flight takes off from New York’s JF Kennedy airport at 12.05pm Irish time tomorrow (7.05am local time) and is due to land at Heathrow about 4pm Irish time.

Just before the last passenger flight touches down, two more Concordes will also land at the west London airport.

One will arrive with competition winners on board from Edinburgh.

The other, with invited guests, will have taken off from Heathrow and completed a trip out into the Atlantic.

BA is finally saying goodbye to nearly 28 years of supersonic flights as Concorde is now considered uneconomic to run in terms of passenger levels and maintenance costs.

Hosting the New York-London swansong of the 1,350mph plane will be BA chairman Lord Marshall.

He said today: “Concorde is a wonderful aircraft and her last day is one of mixed emotions.

“Everyone has enormous pride in all that she has achieved but there is inevitable sadness that we have to move on and say farewell.”